Maybe the way to turn Trump off Greenland is to remind him that there's toxic nuclear waste buried in its melting ice? Not such a great real estate deal after all? Jeff Colgan had this great piece in 2019 on what's buried in Greenland. @goodauth.bsky.social goodauthority.org/news/trump-w...

15/A neo-royalist order is more likely to consolidate the more capital invests in its logic. Those seeking an alternative need to call out firms that play to the Court. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-t...

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

But that wouldn't make America look like a tough guy! It's almost like our leaders don't have coherent strategic rationales for doing things and are driven by deep insecurities and a thirst for performative violence.

Five years ago.

As the Jan. 6 anniversary approaches, we are reminded of how the events of that day are a stain on American history with which we still have not come to terms. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

What next? The Library of Congress??? Such bad news on New Year' Eve! Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

On the difference between the AI-assisted assembly of information vs the more involved process of making connections leading to historical discovery. A good read. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

The Bulletin is excited to welcome @wellerstein.bsky.social as a new Senior Fellow! Alex has written many pieces for the Bulletin over the years, including some of our most popular articles. thebulletin.org/2025/12/alex...

Bill was a generous and kind colleague who will be missed. The National Security Archive is an invaluable resource for anyone in nuclear history, or more broadly Cold War history. RIP, Bill. Your memories will be special blessings to all who knew you. 🙏💕 nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-12...

Nuclear-powered spy device lost in Himalayas after China detonated a nuclear weapon. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Tragically, this trend is not going to end well. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm back writing on Substack with a four-part series on "Gold Standard Science." open.substack.com/pub/kathryno...

Justice served. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Gates bends the knee. Famous last words. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

MIT rejects Trump's deal. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

We were here a year and a half ago. Gift article reviewing the Fra Angelico exhibit in Florence. Something uplifting for a change. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...

Great opportunity—one I wish had been available when I was on the job market!

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

A good move in the AI world, harking back to the days when cutting edge scientific work was supported in industry www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

Worth pondering. We are in an authoritarian phase, with Democrats lising power day by day. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

50th Anniversary of Born to Run album. Just amazing. Here's a Springsteen tour of the Jersey Shore. Just in time for our visit. Gift article. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

A must read on science, technology, and international affairs, with linkages to Trump's personal fortune.🧪 Brilliant article by Guy Laron. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/trum...

This is now a police state methodically planned and carried out. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

A commentary on the destruction this regime has brought to science. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

As we remember August 6, 1945. 🙏 (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Check out Kathy's post raising issues around science in the USA and current policy climate. She reached out for comment on my thoughts on the LIGO array, which is spread across two sites that work together as a single broadband gravitational wave detector. #physics #sciencepolicy

Thanks to Donald Salisbury for the invitation to write a piece on the crisis in American science for the APS FHPP Newsletter. This time I interviewed four colleagues on their areas of expertise. My heartfelt thanks to all. higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/APS/fc77d112...

Judge who did his job also subject to DOJ accusations. We now have a fully weaponized legal system that will target those who defend the law or the most basic constitutional principles. bsky.app/profile/kels...

This memorandum, just issued today, clearly violates the separation of church and state. It includes the “right” of a federal employee to argue to another employee that their religious belief is the “correct” one. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

The CIA Book Club then and the banning of Orwell’s 1984 now in red states. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

This is a tragedy. The end of the Keeling Curve. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

The regime is itching to impose the Insurrection Act. Jonathan Winer identifies the triggers tRump is looking for and explains how many recent developments are pieces of the puzzle enabling that act. washingtonspectator.org/searching-fo...

The variety of tools the US uses to control things around the world. Co-authored by Georgetown colleague Abe Newman www.wired.com/story/enshit...

By a leading scholar on the Holocaust. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

This is Nazi, pure and simple. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

We stand to lose a generation of scientific talent www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...