Also,The air war accelerated. The Russians continued their mass attacks on Ukrainian cities and in return Ukraine launched one of its longest range attacks so far. Interesting trajectory. Finally, Ukrainians are being open about their thinking on modern war. Pay attention.

My free weekend update is out. More and more Ukraine and European states are being drawn together, as the US is both unreliable and too supportive of Putin's dictatorship. The fate of this "beautiful friendship" will determine the fate of Europe's future security. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

That's probably the end of Fidesz. 37 years after the fall of communism and Hungary still doesn't have a party system

What Trump broke with the Iran war can't be fixed. He got the US into a bad strategic position he can't get out of. Many are deeply invested in not acknowledging that. Because it means they've been wrong. Who knows how long it'll take for reality to fully hit. But when it does, it'll be a doozy.

Shocking statistic ⬇️ The hallmark of a generation increasingly unable to achieve the milestones previous generations took for granted.. Its is an issue we discussed in our latest UK Poverty report, one which clearly intersects with low-incomes and lack of opportunity.

New European Political Science (EPS) articles can now be found on Cambridge Core. Stay up to date with the latest content from @epsjournal.bsky.social by following this link - https://cup.org/4os8qPS #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social#OpenAccess

A three way fight between medievalist conservatives, bureaucratic enlightenment modernisers, and Romantic idealists results in a compromise no one quite wanted but also is drives a huge portion of innovation and technical advance in the modern world. Fascinating! asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...

Fascinating.

"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism." Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:

Great piece (and graphics) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. PS This is exactly why @pauldwebb.bsky.social and I talked about 'the educated left-behind' when we wrote about the young people who'd followed Corbyn into the Labour Party - and who may well be following Zack Polanski into the Greens.

Why, if you believe, like I do, that grassroots party members are ultimately the lifeblood of liberal democracy, you have to admire them for making the effort, whichever part of the political spectrum they come from.

What is the Political Sociology of Crisis?: 30 Years of Sociological Data from Ukraine A Candid Discussion and Q&A with Dr. Tymofii Brik Internationally Leading Ukrainian Sociologist and Rector of the Kyiv School of Economics 13:00 -14:30 April 24th

Polish communism was also defeated, in the end, by an election. www.thefp.com/p/orbans-ous...

OfS wants HEIs 'to publish documents on their websites explaining their student protection arrangements, including student contracts, policies related to course changes, information on complaints, refunds and compensation, and information about agents that work on behalf of an institution.' 1/2

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. The big story this week was the Ukrainians speaking truthfully about the USA not being their (or Europe's) friend. In war seeing reality as opposed to what you desperately want to see, is a fundamental test. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

If you take into consideration V-Dem's confidence intervals, Sweden and the US had the same quality of democracy for most of the last 36 years, with the exception of the early 2000s and the Trump era.

#Wahltrend #Bundestagswahl (10.04.26): AfD: 25,5%, CDU/CSU: 25,3%, Grüne: 13,9%, SPD: 13%, Linke: 10,4%, FDP: 3,4%, BSW: 3,1%, Sonstige: 5,4% ➤ dawum.de/Bundestag/ | #Wahlumfrage #btw2029 #Sonntagsfrage

Good thing we’re neutral so Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Election interference. In plain sight.

Watch/listen here: 📺 youtu.be/-uCjUbVu5aY 🎙️ linktr.ee/restispolitics

Our interview with the President of Ukraine is out now. Alastair speaks with Zelenskyy about everything from the personal toll of the war and his daily calls with his mother, to the bigger picture: Putin’s mindset, US involvement, and the shaping of new alliances. Link in the replies.

Updated AJPS AI Disclosure Policy for Authors Last year, we introduced a set of policies concerning the use of AI at AJPS for both authors and reviewers. We have recently updated these guidelines. The current guidelines are presented in this Editor's Blog: ajps.org/2026/04/10/u...

Articles by D Bateman (Cornell), L Cella, I Cinar, S Stokes (all Chicago), @andresuribe.bsky.social, L Jakli (Harvard), B Greskovits (CEU), J Wittenberg (Berkeley), M Laebens (CEU), M Slarzynski (Polish Ac of Sciences), R Lieberman (Hopkins), @daschloz.bsky.social @valentimvicente.bsky.social /end

Vance: "We want you to make a decision about your future with no outside forces pressuring you or telling you what to do. I'm not telling you exactly who to vote for." Vance 20 minutes later: "Go to the polls at the weekend. Stand with Viktor Orbán!"

Donald Trump must be removed from office. Not only is he waging an illegal war—he’s threatening war crimes. To the members of our military: remember, you do not have to follow illegal orders.

🚨🚨"Surprise, surprise": Serbia’s top military brass said Ukraine was not behind an incident involving explosives near a gas pipeline with Hungary, in a rebuke to Hungarian PM Viktor #Orbán, who heavily implied Kyiv was involved. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/serb...

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

New Cambridge Element, Policy Experiments, by Sebastián Ureta, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4bVtyKA

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

An added wrinkle to this pattern of mass disassociation is that the President is permanently disassociated...he can say "Mamdani is a terrorist who must deported" one day and then the next day have a chummy photo op with him in the White House. His words & his actions are totally unlinked.

”What is left//…//are inferences made up of a patchwork of indicators collected for wholly different purposes.” How poor data hobble Britain’s immigration policy economist.com/britain/2026...

OK, let me explain this really simply for those struggling with reading comprehension. Just because MPs do things that you dislike (and maybe I dislike too!), does not automatically make them out-of-touch. Politics is fundamentally about trade-offs, external pressures and wicked problems.

The Israeli defense minister threatens an illegal occupation and crimes against civilians www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Several new far-right mayors remove EU flags from French town halls

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

Deeply depressing. Just lazy soundbites and bad economics. Populism without racism is infinitely preferable to the combination. But Greens badly need something that actually resembles a coherent economic strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

Upside: bucketloads of energy and activism - and messaging that mobilises target voters. Downside risk: what you might call "the parasitoid wasp scenario" - newcomers act in their own interest, transforming the party into something it's not and, in so doing, end up effectively killing it.

We hope you've enjoyed the 🌷March Issue🌷 ✒️ Edited by Linda Basile & Stella Ladi 📖 @ljramiro.bsky.social 👏 Thanks to all our brilliant contributors & to the anonymous reviewers 🕵️ who help to make each manuscript the best it can be

packed courts occasionally rule against their rulers - just to provide the pretense that they are independent. but watch where they do this. they typically do not challenge the leader's control over government or continued occupancy of the office, which are core to maintaining autocracy.

Sent this free piece out yesterday morning, but Trump's speech confirmed it. Trump is stuck in Iran. He would like to leave, but as of now he cannot because Iran will not do what he wants. So, all he can do is babble and possibly escalate. Plus it helps Putin, so for Trump that's good.

It would be a great thing for Europe to be told the truth, which would force it to act and stop having hope in the USA. Europe must look after Europe--and if Trump helps Europeans understand that, that is a great thing. Maybe the best thing possible.

People need to understand that it is a good thing if Trump threatens to leave NATO and says the US will not fight for Europe. The truth was the alliance was dead the moment he became president again. The US under him would never fight to defend Europe from Russia. Pretending otherwise was dangerous.