#Administration

1/ So...yesterday on “History Matters” I discussed why impeachments are important—besides convictionGoing to cling to that nowThey create a record of events.They construct a narrative.They (in this case) reveal that
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Getting lots of questions about the fate of TikTok today, so I’ll try to outline what we know and don’t know below. Follow along! The first thing everyone wants to
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"Twitter and Facebook are busy throwing overboard anybody who dares to challenge the narrative they’ve helped to craft. Something’s up now and it’s making them even more hysterical than usual."Lifelong
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What I remember about President Obama:- Turning his back on #Iran's 2009 uprising- Allowing Assad gas innocent civilians in #Syria- Selling off America's Middle East allies- Bending over backwards to
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Human Trafficking Arrests Surge Under TrumpIn 2016 57.7K people are victims of human trafficking, that includes U.S. citizens & immigrants. The Justice Department estimates 15K children are trafficked into every
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I’m just gonna leave this here S F G = 32TS = 1927 EST Drop 32 > Maybe one day but it cannot go slow. The initial wave will
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It's worth looking at historical cases of how workfare programs displace public-sector union workers and suppress wage, even when the proponents initially claim this won't happen. The experience in NYC
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The first question is whether the right endpoints are being studied. Contrary to prevailing assumptions (including those of a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner8), none of the vaccine trials
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Biden's new executive order on climate/environment has just been posted. Establishes an interagency group on the social cost of carbon, tells EPA to consider new methane regulations on existing oil/gas
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On colleges and universities, I think it's pretty simple.This is a disease that spreads when asymptomatic people gather in crowded indoor settings. We can't stop college kids from gathering, because
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I have an academic and professional bias towards not jumping to conclusions, towards looking for evidence, towards testing hypotheses (and no, I am not a lawyer)./1https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1347332360325496833 Based on what
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FWIWOvertime: Beyond 1/6-If we find ourselves in a protracted debate extending beyond 1/6, we will be going into overtime.-This occurred in 1876 (again the model for what we are experiencing
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Get ready for a lot of "sure you were right about Trump but did you have to be so mean about it?" "You were running around with your hair on
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The “no one elected Twitter to make these decisions” argument is completely irrelevant in today’s world and economy. Millions and millions of people decide to use Twitter, and agree to
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Made some Illinois vaccine progress charts at 2 a.m.!First time playing with this data so I'm open to suggestions at better presentation. I know a chart that only goes upwards
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Who should run NASA: a scientist or a bureaucrat? I don't have the answer, but I will share a little vignette from history (because I'm an historian) that I think
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