#Politics

Jane Flegal

JaneAFlegal

It is weird that the same people who are most critical of climate wonk obsessions w optimal policy & econ efficiency (vs politics) when it comes to policy tools (ie

Anthony B. Bradley

drantbradley

Revivalist evangelicals have been waiting for a third “Great Awakening.” It’s happening, but secular. If Southern evangelicals had chosen Jesus instead of the GOP in the 70s, 80s, & 90s,

Nick Cohen

NickCohen4

What the conspiracy theory never explains is why Corbyn did better than expected when “Blairite" Labour officials helped run the 2017 campaign, but went down to ignominious defeat in 2019

Dan Fox

d4nf0x

We’re Going On A Behr Hunt. A thread about hypocritical Corbynites, their stupidity and their antisemitism.Yesterday, Guardian journalist Rafael Behr published an extraordinarily compelling piece about having a heart attack

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

I spoke with Law360 on the shortfalls of the new NAFTA/ USMCA. "This piecemeal 'tear-ISDS-down-for-some-but-reinforce-for-others' U.S. alternative is not a coherent alternative, so I doubt it can scale and diffuse

Nadine Nakagawa

NadineNakagawa

We need a real conversation about journalism & bias. There’s a veneer of so-called objectivity when there really is no such thing which is being revealed in some recent anti-poverty

Louise Mensch, M.A.

LouiseMensch

Mini-thread: #SlowLandslide for @JoeBiden should come in today. 306-232. (NC / AK are Trump’s, probably) Biden got the most votes ever and the Democratic Party won the popular vote yet

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

What strikes me about Trump right now is not the vileness and hatred — we knew all that — but the naked display of panic, his obvious awareness that he

Maria Sobolewska

ProfSobolewska

Labour's plan to focus on flag and patriotism to win back voters is unlikely to work, for several reasons, based on my recent book Brexitland with @robfordmancs (if you have

Dahlia Scheindlin

dahliasc

Survey update in #Israel - wonky thread based on 3 wknd polls (not mine), in light of elex talk. 1. Talk of "Likud plunge" overrated - that relates to brief

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

Republicans and their propaganda apparatus spent decades creating an alternate reality, and teaching people to disbelieve any reporting that contradicts them, and here we are.https://twitter.com/AshleyMason739/status/1282078273082712064 The

Matea Gold

mateagold

Many Americans who planned to vote by mail said they now are going to take the risk of going to the polls because they fear their ballots won't be counted.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

vivekagnihotri

Left vs Right Biologically & psychologically, there is no individual who isn’t a combination of both. We have left & right brain, limbs, eyes. But they don’t conflict, instead they

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

The Portal invited Ashley Mathews in advance of the election to discuss this specifically outside of politics. This is not about politics, but about a class that wishes to use

Sheldon Whitehouse

SenWhitehouse

Looks like Trump’s BS-artist attorneys may have crossed the line from BS to something much more serious.https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html A review of Trump’s abominable lawyers in w

Michael Li 李之樸

mcpli

I think the issue is two-fold. (1) American elites are so convinced that the country is permanent & permanently preeminent that politics is perceived of as just a game to

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