The Doctor is right and correct

The chief reason Mamdani has aroused such keen interest is because he is the first leftwinger to show that politicians can not only face down Trumpism, they can beat him…The centre-left should be taking on the extreme right and acting as the anti-Trump. Instead…it is playing at being not-Trump.

New co-authored article on international trade and forced labour. @nottspolitics.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecpo...

New #firstview: @uazsgpp.bsky.social's Cameron Mailhot and @gsslab.bsky.social @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social on public perceptions of and support for international state-building, with evidence from conjoint experiments in Liberia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Privileged to write this editorial with @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org in @science.org: "Scientists’ role in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New piece in the @us.theconversation.com with @stephenmbagwell.bsky.social The protection of collective labor rights (right to unionize, strike, and bargain collectively) reduces income inequality between individuals (poor vs. rich) and between ethnic/racial groups (white versus Black).

Glad to see this letter: blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-are-nyc-r...

I'm happy to present Dr. Meridith LaVelle! Dr. LaVelle successfully defended her dissertation this morning. She will be a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim this fall. A huge thanks to her other committee members, Amanda Murdie, Danny Hill, and Jeffrey Berejikian.

This update took longer than I anticipated, but it's out now! New data on organizational use of violent and nonviolent tactics. Using a diversity of nonviolent tactics is linked to longer survival for orgs. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SXPRW...

🧵 To make this more concrete: don't assume Trump himself knows what he is going to do next in in the Israel-Iran conflict. He definitely doesn't want to get the US involved in a major war in the Middle East (that much he's been clear on). But he loves to bomb and look tough. 1/

Why do peaceful protest turn violent? Today’s #NoKings protests are a case study of why we need to think about both how protesters behave AND how the government and police respond to protest. Millions of people protested peacefully, LA erupted in violence This is an analysis of why A thread

About a thousand people came out to protest at India Point Park in Providence, RI for the No Kings movement. Speeches by Senator Jack Reed and Representative David Morales. People turned out in large numbers despite the rain.

Thousands protest in Providence, RI at the capital for the No Kings movement

Sorry, but this stuff drives me absolutely crazy. I’m sorry economists & journalists are just discovering the field of international political economy. But we’ve been studying & publishing about this stuff for 50 years now. There’s no new age of anything & “geoeconomics” has been around forever.

Congratulations to all participants and winners in today's 501 Poster Session!

I keep seeing people saying things like, "It is difficult to be a conservative at a University." If you think this is true, I beg you to spend some time at a public university in a red or purple state. Stop making generalizations based on private and/or elitist schools in the Northeast. 1/3

The problem with America in 1 graph

The Black Farmers Index is a collective of Black farmers who are fueling the small business farm revolution. They sell everything from food to soap. Please click on the regions to find farms near you or shop online and share with your friends. blackfarmersindex.com

Information for the 2025 Journeys in World Politics workshop: www.saramitchell.org/journeysflye... Applications due on 5/30 for the workshop held at the U of Iowa on 8/24-8/26. Our senior mentors are Kathleen Cunningham & Leah Windsor, along with Kelly Kadera, Jessica Weeks, Christina Schneider.

I was wondering when someone would trigger WTO dispute resolution proceedings www.wto.org/english/news...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

A huge anti-Erdoğan protest tonight in Istanbul, defying a four day national ban on protests, to denounce the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. "Break down those barricades without harming the police. Take to the streets and squares", Ozgur Ozel, an opposition leader, told protesters.

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. For anti-racism to be genuine and have a lasting impact, governments should meaningfully redress the ongoing impacts of racism’s historic legacies.

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

With the Democrats in the Senate folding on this CR as we speak, i wanted to take a minute to share a document I've been working on about what an effective opposition to Trump should look like. The full document is linked in the thread 1/x

If you drive across the Midwest you'll spend literally all day looking at corn and soybean fields. It turns out, we grow so much corn and so many soybeans that we have to go out of our way to find things to do with them 1/x bsky.app/profile/pear...

Hey! Latest paper by @suparnac.bsky.social and @audreycomstock7.bsky.social and me is live at the Journal of Human Rights: "Derogations, democratic backsliding, and international human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic" doi.org/10.1080/1475... Preprint here: www.andrewheiss.com/research/art...

My new article at FPA with @chaselaspisa.bsky.social is available!

Have received a lot of questions about how to find these protests and rallies in the DC area. The Movement Infrastructure Project is a great resource. www.movementinfrastructureproject.org/calendar

I missed this when it came out last year, but here's a profile on me that covers a lot of topics, including human rights in the United States. spia.uga.edu/spia-tedxuga...

NEW from #HRW on Trump immigration EOs: "All people, regardless of immigration status or criminal history, have the right to fair treatment before the law and a chance to argue for their liberty and rights when they are detained or face deportation." www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Oh no that’s horrible. I sure hope no one else sends fake reports to [email protected].

Introducing the CEDAW ROCS dataset: A Dataset on the United Nations Treaty the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women––Reservations and Objections of Committed States @fpa-isa.bsky.social Willow Kreutzer academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Gofundme should not be our national safety net

Junior scholars, consider applying if you’re interested! Happy to answer questions you might have!

Yesterday on International Human Rights Day we launched our new Forced Marriage in Domestic Legislation database - a sibling data set to the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation database. Now live at antislaverylaw.ac.uk

Excited to work with @joanacook.bsky.social on our Google Trust & Safety Research Award project looking at tools & methods for countering extremist content online. Great opportunity to analyze the risks & benefits of #AI www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...

Boston Globe covering some of the work we do at the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at URI ranking countries human rights. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/21/m...

We put out a report ranking every country in the world on its respect for 24 different human rights. We also highlight student research on several spotlights related to human trafficking, child trafficking, digital repression, refugee rights, and economic discrimination. www.uri.edu/news/2024/11...