"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Only Congress has the legal authority to change the name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is blocking a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies, which means the subsidies will lapse. Millions of Americans will pay much higher fees or will drop their health insurance altogether. Republicans did this while making sure rich people got a tax cut.

Don’t mind me. I’ll just be living in the past like Norma Desmond, after I buy this condo in the Powhatan that was just listed for sale. But seriously, whoever ends up buying this property: DO NOT GUT THOSE BATHROOMS! I WILL FIND YOU! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

The Booth School of Business is hiring two postdoctoral Principal Researchers for the 2026-27 academic year. Principal Researcher Marks Fellow uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... Principal Researcher Instructor uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

Governor Pritzker speaking at #nokings Chicago.

#Nokings Chicago

Freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan is chronicling the ICE atrocities in Chicago on instagram. The best and worst of people in the same photo. www.instagram.com/mkaplanphoto...

Watching the Chicago Marathon broadcast. Technology is amazing. Real-time CGI covering plywood covered storefronts and smoldering buildings with fake backgrounds www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/...

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

Chicago is safe, beautiful and vibrant. In fact, it was just voted the best big city in America for the ninth year in a row. If the jaw dropping images you’ve seen recently on TV or social media make it look like a war zone, that’s on Donald Trump. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Michigan Avenue right now.

This is illegal, and yes this is the same guy who claimed he'd never heard of Project 2025. But there's a larger point to make here about public service. No one who wins elected office wins 100% of the vote. But everyone who holds public office represents 100% of their electorate.

"When we handed one agent the official papers of a legal resident, the masked agent took the documents, shoved our handcuffed resident into an unmarked vehicle, and sped off." Past Chris Harris from Bright Star, whose shelter was attacked today by immigration agents, shows and tells what happened.

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Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague). This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

We've just completed a revision of this comment and posted it to SSRN. We very much appreciate all the useful and thoughtful comments that we've gotten from colleagues, Bluesky commentators, and, of course, Ryan Oprea. @urisohn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

Massive crowds, #NoKingsDay Chicago demonstration!

This is economic policy gone horribly wrong Can't remember the last time a chart made me this mad budgetlab.yale.edu/research/com...

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

I learned so much from Renee Ferguson. She made countless lives better through her brilliant investigative journalism—as well as her mentorship of young people looking to make a difference.

More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"

one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it

Wow.

New in PN: Trump's attack on Harvard hampered by his inability to STFU "The Trump administration would be getting slapped down in court even if the president & his minions *didn’t* constantly announce their intent to violate laws. But their incessant chest thumping does make things go a lot faster"

Wow. Revoking tenure is something that Harvard has not done before it seems (though some have resigned so Harvard did not have to act). Gino is now off the HBS faculty list: www.hbs.edu/faculty/unit...

Swing district Republicans are right to be worried about the fallout from Medicaid cuts. Our Briefing Book piece shows that Medicaid has grown fastest in frontline Republican districts.

I share some thoughts yesterday on the psychology of how uncertainty disables decision making for @cbseveningnews.bsky.social. www.cbsnews.com/video/report...

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

Impressive. Thanos only took out 170 million Americans.

Incredibly petty (I write, recognizing that I now have put my Global Entry at risk)

I’ll use this as an opportunity to promote a second independent non-replication. bsky.app/profile/geow...

💡 Open science: A team of researchers at Shandong University has attempted to replicate Oprea (2024 AER). The results do not replicate. Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.

Republicans are lying when they say “this is what Americans voted for.” Here's a thread of what Americans *didn’t* vote for: / Canceling childhood cancer research / Shipping people to a foreign torture prison without a hearing / Arresting judges / Torching our close relationship with Canada 🧵

A wonderful celebration of independent bookstores!

This doesn’t create the “appearance” of corruption or set up the “potential” for conflict of interest. It is corruption, and it’s a standing conflict of interest. Patently, and historically.

The Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. There will be many more and we will all be poorer and worse off because of it.

My father was a professor and a proud member of AAUP. AAUP supported 4 (!) faculty strikes during his time on the faculty. Years later, I’m finally a proud member as well, though I have a different reason to support AAUP as it fights for the preservation of higher education.