Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

In this symposium on Syria contributors paint nuanced, grim, but clear-eyed pictures of multiple transitional challenges. Comparisons to other cases and situation in poli sci lit remind us Syria's not terribly unique. Amazingly, they all suggest ways through the obstacles. zenodo.org/records/1745...

As a new generation of train makes its inaugural journey in the French capital this week, enthusiasts on board see it as proof of the system’s superiority.

A record 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless during the last school year, according to data released Monday. It's grim evidence that the city’s worsening housing crisis is wreaking havoc on its youngest and most vulnerable residents. nyti.ms/43rE1II

It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me @financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh

So CBS as an outlet just copies and retypes reports from the Free Press? Yikes.

The new surprise Prime Minister in France is… the outgoing resigned Prime Minister.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong on.ft.com/42wdJ82 | opinion

Les préfets ont reçu ordre de l'Intérieur de réserver les dates du 16 et 23 novembre pour des élections, selon mes infos (source préfectorale), qui confirment celles du Canard. Macron semble préférer prendre le risque de mettre le RN au pouvoir que d'appeler la gauche à Matignon. #Off

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

Sébastien Lecornu resigns 27 days into his job, and a day after nominating his government. Breaking the record for shortest PM tenure in France.

🇨🇵📊 sondage pour les élections municipales à Grenoble : 🟢EELV-PS 31% 🔵LR 21% 🔴FI 12% 🟠Renaissance 11% 🟣Place Publique 9% ⚫RN 8% 🔵Horizons 7% E. Piolle ne se représente pas et la majorité EELV-FI a éclaté, une alliance EELV-PS semble envisageable. www.ledauphine.com/elections/20...

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

The far-right RN in France get two Vice President seats in the Assemblé Nationale thanks to votes from Macron’s party MPs.

I personally benefited from this when I applied, and I highly recommend it with wonderful people!

Straighten them out one by one, reminds me a lot of "zenga, zenga" (alleyway by alleyway).

I’m thrilled that my job market paper, “Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in sub-Saharan Africa,” is hot off the press and open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. A quick thread featuring more than you ever wanted to know about land tenure.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LA TAULE. C'est la une de Libération ce vendredi.

Iconic scene.

Le Pen’s continued defense of Sarkozy—beyond their ideological affinity—contributes to the normalization of discursive attacks on judicial independence in France.

Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.

Confirmation que Macron souhaitait une majorité RN en faisant la dissolution (j'imagine pour apparaître comme un genre de "rempart républicain")

Another reason why the UN should change it's HQ. New York and the US, clearly doesn't deserve the world order to be based here. They're already moving a lot of their offices and work to Kenya due to costs, but they should consider moving their entire operations somewhere else.

Ce sujet doit être au cœur de la discussion budgétaire cette année et les suivantes. Il faut investir, massivement dans l'école publique: Elise Huillery, économiste : « Nous n’investissons pas assez dans l’éducation, et nous le faisons de manière injuste » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Le président qui se disait ni de gauche ni de droite nomme un septième Premier ministre de droite www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/10/l...

France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu — the third consecutive conservative PM Macron has named since last year's elections — publicly opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2012. He said he was "exasperated" by "gay communitarianism." vernonpolitique.info/2012/11/pas-...

He keeps appointing people more to the right each time.

Breaking news: The failed confidence vote marks only the third time since the 1958 start of France’s fifth republic that a prime minister has been toppled by parliament. on.ft.com/4nn6MOt

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous. There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Surprisingly, we may get a center-left government in France next week.

And Trump's favorability among Republicans is still ~90% lol.

Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.

US has become more & more unequal, with wealth continuing to concentrate at the very top. The bottom 50% of households has only 2.5% of nation’s wealth. Black ppl hold less of the nation’s wealth than they did 30 years ago, despite having a growing pop share. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

An extremely cruel authoritarian regime.

Latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump vs. the U.S. Economy Natasha Sarin walks through how Trump’s tariffs, the AI boom and the leadership shake-up at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are affecting the economy. open.spotify.com/episode/61Vq... youtu.be/PI6RmJRCwYE?...

Malnourished Palestinian woman dies in Italy after Gaza evacuation

Research Development Workshop by @arabpsn.bsky.social Gender and Politics in MENA Deadline for Application: September 20, 2025 www.arabpsn.org/events/rdw2025

Greece now indefinitely deploying naval vessels in Libyan waters, not to stop migrants as initially posited, but to defend their perceived 'maritime zone' . Another alarm bell that plans to develop Libya's offshore fields will set the region aflame www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

The considerable power of Boris Lojkine’s new film “Souleymane’s Story” depends entirely on its moment-to-moment persuasiveness, on a set of narrative and aesthetic choices that, as presented, seldom feel like choices at all, @justincchang.bsky.social writes.

NEW from @immcouncil.org: our research team analyzed President Trump's major travel ban and produced detailed estimates of the impact on visas and the economy. Check it out! We hope this research will help people understand the impacts. Read: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/trump...

Outstanding work by the Centre for Information Resilience. The findings not only reveal Haftar’s support for the ongoing genocide in Sudan, but also raise serious concerns that weapons supplied to him by France and other European countries were probably used against civilians in the conflict.

I love Ezra as much as the next person, but he keeps inviting the dumbest people on earth.

It seems we are the last standing institution.

This clip...I have no words. Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

I would like to apologize to California, you are the best state in the country!

✍️ Alain Passard, trois étoiles au Michelin, passe au tout végétal : une suite logique, rare et courageuse Depuis lundi, le chef ne sert plus aucun plat cuisiné avec des ingrédients d’origine animale (hormis le miel) dans son restaurant parisien.

Paris is becoming even more exciting.