#Social

Thomas Zimmer

tzimmer_history

I reviewed @ezraklein‘s “Why We’re Polarized” for @hsozkult. A few thoughts, from a historical perspective, on an important book that still left me unconvinced that "polarization" is the right lens

Michael Clemens

m_clem

As people in poor countries get richer, they have a *greater* tendency to emigrate. I just released two major studies, one joint with @MariapiaMendola, exploring this remarkable phenomenon.Long-read summary here:

rupi kaur

rupikaur_

many have asked what more they can do for the #farmersprotest. we’ve been told by human rights orgs that raising awareness on social media is most effective in this situation.

Russ

RussInCheshire

If Labour moves to the centre, we will be indistinguishable from Tories.I mean, there might be a few small differences, like how a centre-left Labour government lifted 600,000 children and

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Almost one in every ten violent deaths of Americans will occur at the hands of a police officer.That blew my mind when I learned it. This isn't like a rounding

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

I feel like every year I’m compelled to do this thread. But here we go again.https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1299776570463199232 Which days were these? When Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing license for

David Chapman

Meaningness

In the run-up to the last election, I wrote several pieces about politics from a meta-rational point of view. I’m going to tweet links to some of them as a

Joel

tweetjoelsmith

The whole Taste of Sicily thing would actually make a really great in-depth story if someone was around to write it. Small local restaurant in Palmyra PA decides to defy

Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️𐃏

webdevMason

tbh nothing prepared me better for 2020 than the ~2 years I spent periodically evading psychological capture by various new age cults due to my proximity to another high-dollar target

Dirk Auer

AuerDirk

Very glad to have been interviewed about vaccine passports by Belgian newspaper @lalibrebeBasic argument is that policymakers should put in place a system of vaccine passports - essentially enabling firms

COV-IRT

Covirt19

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Peter W. Singer

peterwsinger

After all the jokes, my serious take:By the numbers, no person in all of human history has shared a greater number of conspiracy theories with a greater number of people

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

OmarBaddar

THREAD: a couple of thoughts on Bari Weiss’s NYPost ‘anti-wokeness’ piece:1) Despite raising legitimate concerns about growing intolerance of dissent on the left, the hypocrisy here is horrifying, given her

Meyer Foundation

MeyerFoundation

[Staff Opinion] Organizers, advocates, and the philanthropies that aim to support them are faced with difficult choices when the needs and injustices around us are so many, so deep, and

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

This looks weird. The circumstances the Other Taoiseach describes here aren’t the circumstances of people going on their holidays which the papers have reported is prompting cutting of welfare payments.Some

Snake Plissken

robert_plissken

In the past week, HBO tried to cancel Gone With the Wind due to racism. Hattie McDaniel was the first black woman to win an Academy Award for her performance

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