#Policymaking

My TED talk is live! A prejudiced C-SPAN caller...the financial crisis...our gutted safety net all made me ask: "what if racism has a cost for everyone?" #CostsofRacism @TEDTalks http://bit.ly/thesumofus  2/"Racism
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1. Thought-provoking piece by @stevenacook, but we have to ask whether the Middle East has ever been perceived as a "hopeful" region by Washington policymakers. Threats and dilemmas came to
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This speech is long, but well worth a read if you're genuinely interested in understanding the contemporary Tory project. Quick thread.1/9https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1277017358788419585 In January, I described how Johnson'
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Sure. Let's talk about what might happen if #Section230 is repealed. https://twitter.com/benjamin3123/status/1343383885128851461 First, what's going to happen to big tech?Not much. Big tech has been operating globally in countries w
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Ten top takeaways from this morning's @theCCCuk Progress Report - delivered into a unique triple context - the #Covid_19 crisis, UK being off-track to its legally-binding 2050 #netzero emissions target,
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Even those casually following immigration are likely aware of the active role Trump's attorneys general played.This participation entailed unprecedented use of "referral & review"... a power with a problematic &
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On Saturday, the @CDU will choose its new party leader. What will we learn from the choice for the CDU's - and probably by extension 's - future approach to
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The unreasonable ineffectiveness of macroeconomics in political scienceIs economics a science? While the scientific method suggests itself to the hardest of soft sciences—through empirical testing, rejection or acceptance of hypotheses,
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Let's take a quick trip to learn a little about the @USDOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (@TransportStats). This is a department @PeteButtigieg will love, being the stats and data #nerd
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Some thoughts on the Dasgupta Review and what central banks & financial supervisors can draw from it in terms of nature-related financial risks.A thread of key quotes:https://twitter.com/katie_kedward/status/1356526288333377536 From the
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: RESTORING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY:Building an Effective,Transparent Federal Government/Only one party understands that qualified,dedicated civil servants serve the people &
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: RESTORING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY:Building an Effective,Transparent Federal Government/Only one party understands that qualified,dedicated civil servants serve the people &
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1/ Yesterday (19th), @KevinClimate & @Peters_Glen, in a good & long multi-forked thread, aired their differing approaches to how to call for the rapid decarbonization the world so desperately needs.
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Thinking a lot this morning about Dutch attitudes to government failure today (given the news that having made bold pledges about delivering covid vaccines, preparations for actually doing this are
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This is a good @mattyglesias post about techno-politics but I want to quibble with the part of it that’s about my essay on the policy feedback loops you can build
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1. One of my favourite remainer conspiracy theories is that #Brexit happened because Ree-Mogg et al were worried about rules against tax avoidance practices. Sorta overlooks the fact that Brexit
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