I want the book to sell, but my favorite thing is seeing that it's going to be in LIBRARIES! Public libraries created me, and so it's a full-circle moment. I plan to donate many copies to libraries in the Central Valley of California, where I grew up.

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

In case you still needed a reason to root against England...

This paper is interesting, important, though-provocative and raises a large set of questions about how economists can test the impacts of unintended ecological effects. Congratulations to @eyalfrank.bsky.social and Anant Sudarshan www.eaere.org/erik-kempe-award-2026-eyal-frank-and-anant-sudarshan/

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

How can Farage, a man who received a 5 million pounds "unconditional gift" from a crypto billionaire, successfully claim that he is fighting against the establishment? How have other rich radical right populists done the same? The answer lies in the discursive reconstruction of the elite as "woke"

Side-note: any pundit or politician who, over the last decade, has indulged this “the people versus the establishment“ BS, no matter what their political persuasion, shares some of the responsibility for this nonsense today. The list is long.

"I am the most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician of modern times" is a quite a thing for Nigel Farage to say when two MPs have been murdered in the last decade, Stephen Timms was stabbed twice in the stomach in 2010 and there was a plot to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper

What’s happening with Flo/the USMNT now is exactly what’s happened w/ politicians, universities, CEOs, & everyone else in 🇺🇸 in the face of corrupt authoritarianism. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s absurd/unfair, which of course it is. All that matters is that you get to choose complicity or not.

Infantino must go. No matter where it’s held, the World Cup belongs to the fans – not gangsters like Trump. We need someone who’ll finally kick corruption out of FIFA.

Offers a lively introduction to new ideas about concepts and concept analysis in political science and international studies Working with Concepts: Foundational Essays by David Collier, with Research Notes on Innovation in the Field, Out Now & #OpenAccess #PoliSci #PoliSky https://cup.org/4vTeK6X

this kind of urbanism only happens in walkable, urban cities💅

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

In his 1792 tract “The Rights of Man, Part 2,” Thomas Paine proposed a graduated tax in which the top marginal tax rate would be 100%. He pegged that top income at £20,000 per year. That would be roughly $4 million in today’s money.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

this is what happens when we spend a decade or more conceding that maybe the transphobes have a point, maybe the xenophobes have a point. NO. i am so angry right now at what this country has slid into. YET AGAIN.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality ft.trib.al/DgXausP

Much of Africa is terribly under-governed. That needs to change: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...

“But democracy demands its own kind of faith: a consistent orientation toward an ideal—that human societies might be guided by communication among equals rather than by force or fraud.” @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/american-fou...

Sånn f.eks: www.altinget.no/statogstyrin...

Tenk om det bare fantes en måte å teste ut om dette funker — lavere takster for leger som skriver ut full sykemelding — for å få ned sykefraværet, og hvor godt det funker, før det blir innført. Det hadde vært noe det… #dax18

It's launch day for ON COURAGE! Maddow: “INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME.” In the dark early days of Trump II, @juliaangwin.com and I were interviewing dissidents on 5 continents, learning what Americans could do to save our republic. Where books are sold: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

The future of nonviolent resistance may depend on movements’ ability to move beyond mass protests toward exploring alternative tactics and developing smarter, longer-term strategies.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

“The film’s biggest villains are the unwitting parents.” “Toy Story 5” is surprising, soulful and splendid, Alexandra Suich Bass tells “The Intelligence” bit.ly/44pwvOE

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I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery." snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

ethnonationalism can’t roll like this bsky.app/profile/oemi...

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Scenes from a personalist regime: the leader can never fail, he can only be failed

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people. But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.

ethnonationalism can’t rock like this

Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization

"Decentralization, like democracy itself, is something we have to fight for."

What happens when we take an elegant theory model too literally, are cows really the answer to poverty, the dangers of heterogeneity w.r.t. a baseline X, and more - I discuss the new @deankarlan.bsky.social & co-authors revisiting of a seminal poverty trap paper blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.

Ti klimaråd for en styrket klimapolitikk Min siste spalte i @altinget.bsky.social www.altinget.no/klima/artikk...

The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night. The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. #Bafta #Baftas

Skulle ønske #dax18 heller hadde tatt utgangspunkt i Drammens Tidende sin kommentar om Helgheims metode - ettersom avisen kjenner ham godt fra lokalpolitikken, også lenge før Bergen www.dt.no/oppskrift-pa...

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican's record a "wound in Christian memory." https://to.pbs.org/4tTcBWM