#Reform

Matt Steilen

MJSteilen

On the occasion of this piece of satire, which hits pretty close to home: here's my impression of what happened to Fed Soc. It's just an impression--correct me where I'm

Nick Selby

fuzztech

$5.5M. 36,000 trained can now answer the quiz a little better. Impact on arrest demographics? Zero. Claiming the root cause of X is Y, then dogmatically applying solution Z in

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

ZaknafeinDC

The United States isn't Rome. It's the Soviet Union. What I mean is that we're not a stately empire being slowly devoured by migration and invasion. We're a bloated one

Alex Spanko

ASpankoNews

I personally don't think the Trump-loss denialism is anything more than one last cynical grift, but it has a real impact on the most vulnerable among us — particularly those who

Kevin Webb

kvnweb

“With the exception of straight-on climate change issues, in general in smart cities, we’re not actually tackling the big issues. And the big issues have all been thrust out into

Vets for American Ideals

Vets4AmerIdeals

Over the past few months, Americans have been shocked to see weapons of war used against peaceful protesters. On July 20th, the Senate will vote on amendments to the National

Ceteris Paribus

entropied

When Xian missionaries attacked H, response of the likes of RRR & AS was to disown core practices such as murti puja.In contrast, AS were trying to convert M, they

Ali Khaledi Nasab, Ph.D.

Neuro1989

As of now, no country can get more than 7% of all #green_cards each year. #India is a large country, so the share of 7% is not enough, and always

Natalie Fertig

natsfert

Link to live stream of the hearing on the #marijuana reform bill here: https://rules.house.gov/ #cannabisnews https://twitter.com/natsfert/status/1334185857973182464 Chairman @RepMcGovern begins by saying it's a historic day, becau

Jay 🆗 🦀

JP_Zissou

I discovered that Oregon State Rep. Mike Nearman was a leader in a white supremacist group in 2018, and aside from a few liberal outlets hungry for clicks, nobody really

Rachel Barkow

RachelBarkow

Trump will continue to abuse the pardon power on his way out, as he's done all along. A president's clemency grants tells you a lot about a president and his

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

Ben Alpers 🗽

Ben_Alpers

"Carceral progressivism" is a terrific (new-to-me) phrase to describe a phenomenon that I've been running into a lot in recent years.https://twitter.com/CBHessick/status/1339931684163215360 Case in point: an important criminal

David Kleimann

DavidKleimann

Some thoughts on the #EUTradeReview Annex on WTO reform that was released yesterday by @trade_eu. https://bit.ly/2Ncrt4o It reflects EU global governance leadership in action, quite clearly occupying large parts of

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

The switch from stamp duty (housing transaction tax) to land tax is often framed as a no-brainer. But there’s an underdiscussed trade-off that goes to the heart of a key

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

I think of research design (informally) as being fundamentally about whether you have a story for where your identifying variation comes from--contrasted with the case where your identifying variation is

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