I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Wrapping up: Open Policy Panel Discussion on Europe's 2 Major Migration Debates: Borders & Labor Market. With @mclem.org,(@georgemasonu.bsky.social), Nancy Qian, (@kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social), Jan Dannenbring (ZDH) & Katharina Thote (@unhcr.org) Chaired by RFBerlin Director Christian Dustmann.

The framers of the US Constitution entrusted the House of Representatives with the solemn duty to indict presidents for high crimes and misdemeanors, safeguarding the American people from gross abuses of power and flagrant disregard for Congress’s laws.

The transition to IZA@LISER is moving forward! We’ve rebranded iza.org and wol.iza.org to reflect our new home. 🏠 We’re also back to publishing IZA Discussion Papers and will be ramping up our media activities shortly. Thanks for staying with us -- more research updates coming your way soon! 📈

84% of the revenue of SpaceX comes from American taxpayers. So if you wonder who is paying for the damage of this person’s sexual misconduct, the answer is: If you’re American, you are paying for it. I am paying for it. Every Conservative & Liberal is paying for it.

In a sane world, there would already be high level international planning for the contingency of a worst case scenario. Coordination of fiscal and monetary policy; mitigation of financial instability; cushioning lower and middle income countries. Unfortunately we don’t live in sane world.

One of the US’s strengths has been its ability to attract talented young people from around the world That superpower is collapsing (for obvious reasons) Another self-inflicted wound👇

I feel so lucky to have been in school with so many brilliant international students. The son of a Ugandan mango farmer helped me survive statistics class, & the varied perspectives I was exposed to enriched my science immeasurably. This is truly our (the US's) loss.

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

The best and brightest young people from around the world are getting the message: Reconsider investing your talents in the United States. Cumulative issuance of F-1 student visas by calendar month, down circa 32% as of September (latest available) Source: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Zero Americans benefit from this. All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled. Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Top DOJ antitrust official Gail Slater objected that a merger was illegal because economists had found it would hurt consumers. The companies’ lobbyists talked to the US President. She was quickly fired. Our great American institutions are being perverted and corrupted. It will harm all of us.

What we talk about when we talk about replication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... by @mclem.org

The widespread trust in and admiration of the United States that we built up worldwide over generations—including through wise leadership and sometimes heroism by earlier Republican leaders—is now being immolated with a sneering flamethrower. The opposite of Conservative.

Mass exclusion of immigrants is an action against US citizens. Necessarily and inherently. People deciding whether or not that's "worth it" must first look directly at what it is.

The perversion of the US government into a grift machine for political buddies harms every American. Every Conservative and Liberal American.

Extremism and brinksmanship in Washington DC isn't big-and-strong, it's pathetic and sick and it kills Americans.

Matt Goodwin has written a new book: Suicide of a Nation Andy Twelves has suggested some of the direct quotes appear hard to verify, or do not exist, and so may come from AI hallucinations x.com/andytwelves/...

Modern autocracy in action: use culture war methods to rob people you're claiming to protect

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

The “main goal” of the war is now attempting to undo the effects of starting the war. Incompetent, reckless global militarism is already harming every Conservative and Liberal American. And the harm is just beginning.

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

No US president—no Democrat, no Republican—should have a huge, vastly-resourced military force to be deployed in our homeland for tasks unrelated to its mission, at the personal urges of the president. It is far past time for our Congress to do its sacred duty. Americans REJECT authoritarian rule.

Deliberately and explicitly targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the ICC. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

Power without checks and balances putrifies immediately into tyranny. As the framers of our Constitution understood profoundly, and warned us as explicitly as they could have warned us.

We need our free press to challenge public servants to tell the truth about wars they have started. Now even more than when the Framers of our Constitution guaranteed their right to do it. A bedrock protection from tyranny.

This is a huge problem for anything like a democratic info system& not one that will be easily undone or remedied. The sanitation of the info environment will require very large investments in producing, aggregating, legitimating, and distributing/making available info from independent/new venues.

American science is still in chaos. The US Administration's reckless, devastating, unpopular, illegal funding slashes of last year have not been reversed—despite the many court orders to restore funding, and Congress's votes to sustain it. Every day this outrage continues impoverishes our future.

My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Many countries of origin have shifted from concerns about "brain drain" to actively promoting emigration. New @cgdev.org paper by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social outlines how emigration *can* contribute to growth, but only if the right policies are in place. www.cgdev.org/publication/...

The budget of USAID was $22 billion per year. It was *saving the lives* of 4.1 million men, women, and children per year, all over the world. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Analysts say the problems identified in the Borjas paper show that the $100,000 H-1B fee is flawed and are a tax on talent. @mclem.org says a correct analysis would imply the optimal tax on foreign-born talent is zero. @adamposen.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

V-Dem calls the period between 2005 & 2025 the "great reversal" in democracy, only 7% of the world population currently living in liberal democracies, the lowest in 50 years. Which communication technologies have dominated our public sphere over the past 20 years? Our misery machines.

If you research the economics of the labor force, here is a great opportunity from @rfberlin.bsky.social —> A short course intended for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career academics, by leading experts Markus Poschke and Fabian Lange Applications due in 3 days #EconSky

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

The US Administration's passion for "sovereignty" suddenly putrifies into "I can do anything I want" (verbatim quotation) when it feels like "taking" any other country, at will. Hypermilitarized chauvinism will poison America's future. It will come back to harm all Conservatives and all Liberals.

My attempt at articulating why I think LLMs are a clear net positive for all research, and it's a mistake to ignore it despite private concerns: paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r...

“This is about centralized control. About requiring that every research priority, every identified gap, every targeted funding decision be approved by political appointees rather than scientific program staff.” Elizabeth Ginexi.

Our public health system is not a toy for conspiracy-addled quacks. Children’s lives depend on it. Our lives depend on it. It is time to seize it back from the simpletons of pseudoscience. Rejecting modern science will kill Americans, Conservative and Liberal.

When I first saw the only public document justifying the US Administration's $100,000 tax on H-1B visas, I couldn't believe it. The analysis was full of mistakes. Big ones. Basic ones. So I got the same data and reanalyzed it correctly. This is the result.

Our Constitution protects the right of our free press to say things politicians don’t like. Every US President is impotent to stop them. Suspending our Constitution will hobble the future of every Conservative and Liberal American. It is far past time for our Congress to do its sacred duty.

A rarely mentioned reason why it was cruel and abominable to eviscerate researchers’ careers with goon-squad keyword searches: They had been *required* to use those keywords!

It is an atrocity against our bedrock American institutions for the US Administration to threaten our free press for saying things a president does not like. Our First Amendment exists exactly to protect press that challenges politicians. Shredding our Constitution is the opposite of Conservative.

Vaccines are miracles. One of the purest blessings to all humanity. The current war against vaccines, by a cabal of quacks hyperempowered by the US Administration, is abominable. It will ultimately come to harm all Conservative and all Liberal Americans.

“This ruling confirms just how weak and frivolous the criminal investigation of Chairman Powell is, and it is nothing more than a failed attack on Fed independence.” —Republican Senator Thom Tillis. Conservatives and Liberals understand our institutions are under attack, and we will defend them.

Cumulative total issuances of F-1 student visas to the United States for each calendar year, by month. August 2025 is the latest month available. A wall against the brightest young people from around the world harms all Conservative & Liberal Americans, impoverishing our shared future.

Issuance of F-1 student visas by the United States, to all countries, monthly through August 2025 (latest available). The red line shows the start of the current US Administration. Shutting out the world's talented young people will impoverish the future of every Conservative and Liberal American.

Our elections in the United States are fair and secure. The current president lost the 2020 election. His wacky conspiracy theories were laughed out of scores of courtrooms. The attack on our elections is happening *now*. Poisoning our institutions will harm all Americans, on Right & Left.