Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

The rule of law www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

My conversation with Pranab Bardhan in his great substack on the state of democracy in Brazil, India and South Africa

How social media influencers are pushing disinformation on climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

Brilliant summary of the democratic crisis in US When It Comes to Undermining America, We Have a Winner www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Bartov has long warned this was heading towards genocide. I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Five reasons why Trump's attack on Brazil is just so mindlessly stupid: 1) Nationalism: it backfired and Lula is now the defender of Brazilian sovereignty2) Treason: exposes Bolsonaro and his gang as agents of a foreign government

The latest rationale for Trump tariffs: propping up would be dictators who organize failed coups. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Saying it out loud. Larry Summers on US universities: “98 percent of students are curious and open minded. The problem is much more with faculty in humanities and the less quantitative social sciences and with the noncommercial professions like public health, divinity and education”

Mamdani won by organizing the working class and winning back low income voters that centrist dems have lost to Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Best assessment of US bombing of Iran www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Coincidence? Just as the Brazilian supreme prepares to put Bolsonaro on trial for an attempted coup, Rubio announces the White House is looking into sanctions against the judge who has led the investigation. www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2025/0...

Le Monde editorial on latest statements by Israeli govt: "the facts as well as the statements only reinforce the possibility of a qualification of genocide by international justice" - www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Behind AI: the humans, the power www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

A significant development in India politics: government agrees to enumerate castes in census. This goes against its own ideological line of denying the significance of caste. More an electoral calculation than an ideological shift. thewire.in/politics/mod...

Looking for a good summer reading list? Read the Naval Academy’s list of removed books www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

All you need to know

The charge for Columbia’s new Senior Vice Provost for the Prevention of Thought Crimes or whatever we are calling it.

What is the logic of going after Kidney transplant doctors who are in high demand? Just pure terror. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

While progressive institutions cower …. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

This really seems to be a key take-away to wrestle with and it's not particularly new. In German election, anti-immigrant sentiment is highest (drives votes) in places that have hardly any immigration.

He nails it.

Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian "disinformation space", which is Ukrainian for being Putin's bitch. apnews.com/article/russ...

Trump on Hannity just now: "I always respected [Musk]" Trump in 2022:

he's an ignorant thug but to most voters this wouldn't obviously be false.

Musk is actively subverting democracy in Brazil spreading fake claims that US Aid interfered in election favoring Lula over Bolsonaro. This is a viral story in Brazil leading to calls for Lula's impeachment. www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2025/0...

This, from @quinnslobodian.com , is the most insightful thing I've seen about the ideological strands within the Trump-Musk DOGE project. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

This is how you assert authoritarian power www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

Except the Teslas' Full Self-Driving mode is set to "Mow Down Protesters."

Brilliant analysis of Brazil politics, new authoritarianism and parallels what US. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/a...

Whaaaat!! Now suing companies with low income, precarious workforces for being too non-white and female. Missouri AG sues Starbucks, says workforce is ‘more female and less white’

This is what resistance looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

“Jesus was a migrant “ - the Pope. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/w...

Make apartheid great again www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

State capture was a term first used to describe Zuma’s sell off of the state to the Guptas is South Africa www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...