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1/Let's talk a little about this paper, and about things like racism, nation-states, and America...https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1277833352981016578 2/This is not the first piece of evidence I've seen that when people feel l
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Even as we shift traffic stops and 911 calls away from cops, we should have more cops just walking around. This is the way they do it in Japan, and
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The autogolpe is live! The "fake electors" strategy is happening!https://twitter.com/SenMastriano/status/1332666953350205441 Remember this thread.The reason this will be Trump's final strategy is that A) it's the only thin
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1/I apparently forgot to do a threat about this @bopinion post back in October when I wrote it, so here we go. Hispanic Americans and upward mobility.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-06/hispanic-american-incomes-rising-fas
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China's working-age population will hold roughly steady until about 2030, after which it will go into a steep decline. This is already baked into the demographic cake. If a rapidly
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It's hard for some supporters of student loan forgiveness to understand the antipathy toward the idea. But I think a lot of it is this: America has developed into a
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1/Decolonization and Growth: A brief thread.Let's see how some large post-colonial nations are doing economically, compared to their former colonizers, since the 1960s. 2/First, Indonesia vs. Netherlands.Indonesia is still at
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While I don't have a position on @Peter_Turchin's theories overall, I do think that the idea of reducing immigration in order to raise wages makes no sense. Data shows immigration
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1/A few thoughts on the autogolpe...Trump's first strategy for autogolpe was "Stop the count!!!". It failed.His second strategy was to sue to have votes thrown out. That is in the
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Stacey Abrams is amazing.DEMOCRACY is something worth fighting for.https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1324457879865237504 The point of democracy is not to elect Democrats. It's to give everyone a voice, however small.It's to give
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1/Regardless of the election outcome, Trump's inroads with Hispanic voters kills the idea that the Democrats are the Inevitable Party of the Demographic Future.https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Democratic-Majority-John-Judis/dp/0743254783
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An odd quirk of American socialism is that it has embraced a class analysis based not on occupation (i.e. relationship to the means of production), but on tax brackets. And
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