#Governments

Pawel Adrjan

PawelAdrjan

Job postings in the 4 largest Western European capitals are well below their pre-pandemic levels.Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp (@OECD_local) and I looked at what these trends might mean for city labour markets

David McBride

MurdochCadell

Riddle me this: Q1. If Assange was 'a spy', who exactly was he 'spying for'? Q2: If Assange is not 'a spy', why is he being charged under the Espionage

Akshay Alladi

akshayalladi

Reforms often involves concentrated costs, diffused benefits. Also the benefits rarely have direct attribution. Politically that means they are a net loser. If a reform has unanimity it is often

Dan Gardner

dgardner

Denmark has the same population as Massachusetts yet it is the world leader in wind energy, an enormous and rapidly growing source of the world's power. Why? Because Denmark's policymakers

Danny Kingsley

dannykay68

HEADLINES from ANU VC Prof Brian Schmidt on open access and rankings when speaking at a forum yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR3Hv7dnJ0&feature=youtu.be "By default everything we should be doing is open" 1/n "

Wolfie Christl

WolfieChristl

Today's digital advertising based on selling user data to the highest bidder has been called the 'largest data breach ever', and yes:Two firms who sell targeted+mass surveillance to governments are

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babadookspinoza

The United States has continued its collective punishment sanctions regimes (literal war crimes!) against countries like Venezuela and Iran despite the pandemic. Before the pandemic they were already resulting, as

UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

uclspp

“Political alliances realign, friends change, and parties break up."@anneapplebaum gets our Policy and Practice seminar off to a great start by providing us with an overview to the shift in

Erin Tolley

e_tolley

I'm still thinking about the framing of women's choices. How we're "stepping back," "taking a break," and "quitting the labour market" when, as @agarbes points out, we're actually *stepping up*

Bharat Ramamurti

BharatRamamurti

As promised, here’s a quick thread fact-checking the many claims Secretary Mnuchin made this week to justify his decision to end the CARES Act lending programs before the Biden Administration

Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸

NickKnudsenUS

America needs to understand what's in Biden's $1.9T #AmericanRescuePlan. The GOP version won't go nearly far enough. Biden's plan funds vaccinations to contain the virus, delivers immediate relief to those

WA State Auditor

WaStateAuditor

NEWS RELEASE: A security incident involving a third-party provider of hosted software services, which was used by the Office of the Washington State Auditor, might have exposed sensitive data belonging

Rep. Katie Porter

RepKatiePorter

Last week, I pressed a @LockheedMartin VP on why the corporation is asking for a taxpayer-funded bailout because of the pandemic when 1. profits are through the roof, and 2.

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Here's my @JoeBiden foreign policy "to do" list in the first year. Day One: rejoin the Paris climate agreement. THREAD. 2. Extend the New START Treaty for five years. 3.

Dr Alexandra Phelan

alexandraphelan

I disagree with folks dismissing the implications of the UK variant of concern. While individual behaviors to avoid transmission may not change, the impact at the population level is serious:

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ For the fifth day in a row, Texas has reported record high coronavirus hospitalizations. As the state continues to reopen, Texas has seen a recent surge in the number

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