#Policy

The European Council, the meeting of EU leaders, has now agreed on: The 7-year budget and the Recovery Fund 2030 CO2 emissions reduction target Next steps in the confrontation with
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1/ Questions arising from today’s webinar (for us): A) sustainability is not about having it all. Sustainability is about trade offs. So what are you (GE and non-GE advocates) willing
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Really interesting discussion about how public services in England have coped with #coronavirus this morning #PerformanceTrackerFull report: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/performance-tracker-2020Listen back later he
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How to win back public trust after #golfgate #THREAD 1.say sorry and mean it 2.demonstrate your meaningful apology by taking an action that is in line with the act3.make
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Immigration journalists: if you started during Trump, now is the time to pause and talk to organizers and lawyers who fought for immigrant rights under Obama. I’m concerned with initial
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Since I have received many questions and crazy accusations, on this last day of 2020 let me give you a random collection of thoughts to close out this year. 1/n
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The @WSJ is out with an editorial today slamming the historic democracy reforms in #HR1 with the same tired arguments they and others have deployed many times before. Let’s take
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People think that biological sex is this straightforward thing where if you have two X chromosomes you're female and if you have an X chromosome and a Y chromosome you're
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I mean look, Nate Silver did himself no favors with the tone of his tweets, but1) In basically all other policy areas, e.g. economics and foreign policy, we have no
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Short thread on sport in Ireland working together: I am someone who is interested in driving participation & retention in activity thru sport, that should be obvious to anyone who
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This by @JimGoldgeier and @BWJ777 on why the democracy summit is not a good idea is an important well argued piece which I half agree with. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-12-14/democracy-summit-not-what-doctor-ordered 1/9 Bruc
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Roger Petersen offers a useful framework for understanding why people participate in political violence. In his terms we should understand Jan 6th as unorganized resistance (+1), not an organized rebellion
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ThreadToday was supposed to be a day of celebration of the agreement concluded with great difficulty in KSA between two Yemeni competing powers for control of southern Yemen, aimed at
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With any luck, automatic voter registration will pass out of the NY Assembly tomorrow and head to the Governor's desk. #AVR4NY This is a big deal. Here's why: AVR is
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The only conceivable threat to individual liberty is the government.https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1347400620236562433 Big gov’t is still a giant threat to liberty. But so is big business, especially when it colludes w/ big
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In the final hours of Trump's Presidency, it's worth asking: what just happened?With respect to foreign policy, Trump told us exactly what was going to happen...back in 1987. That's when
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