After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Finally watched No Other Land, it is still shocking to me that political science refers to this country as a democracy.

Never understood paying anything above $2€ for pasta sauce. A can of tomatoes in a blender and then cook in a pan with some tomato paste and olive oil will make you a sauce superior than this.

From our FirstView article: The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022 by REILLY S. STEEL doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Great cover by Libé! The 3 largest cities in France have elected a Socialist or Green mayor. All have a strong mandate for continuing their progressive agendas. Marseille is more dynamic than ever, Paris is leading the world in urbanization, and Lyon is reversing historic inequalities. Very happy

🗳️ Municipales à Pau: le candidat PS Jérôme Marbot annonce avoir battu François Bayrou.

🔎 Glucksmann : beaucoup de bruit pour 0,3% des élus de gauche aux municipales Le patron de Place publique écume plateaux télé pour imposer son récit : aucune alliance avec LFI. Il est bien plus discret sur les (faibles) résultats de son parti. ✒️ Pierre Jequier-Zalc, Basile Roth buff.ly/BaGbSP3

Really surprising exit poll in Lyon, it was assumed that Aulas would have roughly 45% and Doucet in the low 30%. Great evening for the left imho.

Exceptional score by Olivier Grégoire in Paris. I was expecting him to overperform polling that was way too generous with Dati. Almost certain that Paris will have it's third left-leaning mayor in a row. A first for the capital & one of few major cities to be governed by left leaders for 30 years.

Perpignan, the largest city with a far-right mayor, Louis Aliot just won a first round re-election with 51,4%. Up from 35,65% first round score in 2020. It seems voters enjoy their far-right local mayors.

The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/CWZvaG8

My latest for ISPI explores how LAAF-RSF cooperation is transforming logistics & border corridors' governance into geopolitical currency in the competition between Saudi Arabia & the UAE - playing out across the Horn, Sudan, Libya & Chad.

What a depressing event. Outrageous how incompetent this authoritarian regime is.

My coach!!!

Great piece by Anas El Gomati.

Impressive lack of a personality once again from Starmer.

Not surprised that bad political scientists can't win races.

Very surprising polling by Ifop.

ICE unlawfully arrested & detained Rümeysa Öztürk after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian op-ed as a PhD student. Her recent op-ed reveals the trauma she faced. Cases like this led the AAUP to sue the Trump admin in AAUP v. Rubio. We won the lawsuit & protections for non-citizen students & faculty.

Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who mounted two groundbreaking but unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died aged 84. ft.trib.al/jlMv97E

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

We're 9 years close from this gem, what a time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZY...

Exceptional interview by Libé with Gisèle Pelicot.

I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Wow, America is about to give us a chance to run a reverse Card & Krueger design.

Great piece by the Arab Barometer.

This really changes the political arena in Libya.

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Excellent reporting here on Egypt's growing intervention in Sudan flying Turkish-made drones from a remote base at the Sudanese border. Since last November, Egyptian drone attacks have largely closed down the UAE-RSF supply route via Kufra in Libya.

🎉 This is now out in the latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue with page numbers! We find that modernization and expanding state reach through railroad construction in Europe tended to produce backlash and separatism among peripheral ethnic minorities.

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm... [Thread below]

In 1978, the World Cup helped whitewash the Argentinian dictatorship. In 2026, we refuse to let football distract from mass deportations and state violence in the U.S. No football between camps. #BoycottWorldCup2026

This kid and his father entered via CBP One app. It's just absurd and monumentally unfair for people who availed themselves of lawful channels when they existed by following government processes to suddenly get detained and deported to a third country. newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Hâte de commencer mon cours au Collège de France comme Professeure invitée sur la chaire annuelle "L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures"en partenariat avec le Ministère de la Culture de France. Ouvert à toutes et à tous! ❤️😍

Excellent speech by Macron. Pushed back against the international far-right and ridiculed Trump, making fun of him multiple times.

It’s shocking to me the lack of response from the American population (elite & non-elite) to the craziness of the current administration. Protests against ICE are good, but at the same time Americans seem to be brushing off the imperial craziness of the regime and barely any public opposition.

On the subject of World Cup boycotts, this is a story which ought to be much better known: why African countries decided not to compete for a place at the 1966 tournament. One of Fifa's most shameful moments, which hardly ever gets a mention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

But Merz and Schoof want to buy €90B of American weapons. Cowards.

Everyday a new story…

Macron’s party is backing Louis Sarkozy, the former president’s son, in the mayoral race in Menton. What’s striking is that he is a far-right celebrity candidate—author of books and articles on the decline of men and Napoleon’s greatness—running on a platform to unite the right and the far right.

He is, unfortunately, on French media 24/7 as the “US analyst”…

What a time to be alive.

Donc on va avoir les législatives et municipales, intéressant.

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

Le mathématicien et ancien député macroniste Cédric Villani raconte sa prise de conscience écologique, qui le conduit à qualifier le projet de l’A69 de «tragédie représentative de l’absurdité de notre société». Il confie aussi ses espoirs et ses inquiétudes vis-à-vis de l'IA : bit.ly/4qzoboI

Neil Kinnock: “Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ on Reform”.

Bari Weiss something something freedom of speech, something something cancel culture.