#1990s

Romesh Vaitilingam

econromesh

The big rise in UK house prices relative to incomes 1985-2018 can be more than accounted for by the substantial decline in real risk-free interest rates over the period, David

Amanda Becker

AmandaBecker

The frontline in battle over #VotingRights shifts to Arizona — As public outcry continues over Georgia's voting law #SB202, AZ's Republican-controlled legislature is poised to pass several voting-related bills with

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

The Neuralink press release: a thread. 1/ The big ticket items were two-fold. They demonstrated recordings in real-time from a pig, and they demonstrated prediction of limb position from activity.

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Western2A

Clinton ordered missile strikes on a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.Clinton claimed the site was being used by Osama bin Laden to manufacture chemical weapons.It wasn’t.It was a pharmaceutical factory. This

Dave Worthington

BoutiqueyDave

So @karanewman and @dr_whisky, I travelled to Islay to see if I could unlock the secret of @BoutiqueyWhisky's award winning, yet mysteriously labelled, Islay #2, a 25 Year Old single

Benjamin Wittes

benjaminwittes

A Thanksgiving story to warm your pluralistic hearts: It was the early 1990s, the days before Washington DC had meters in taxis. A famine was raging in Somalia. And I

Julie Ae Kim

julieaekim

For Asian Americans who are looking for resources to on anti-blackness, racism, and our own complicity in white supremacy, here's a starting place:*I come to this by learning from black

Faye ⚧🟥⬛ — Arm the people. Disarm the state.

FayeEcklar

It's time to have a talk about electoral politics.Bernie Sanders was a fluke. A once in a generation lightning rod for economic angst and anxiety. He's done more to build

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp I look back at the Evergreen Review, the countercultural literature magazine of New York's Grove Press... #ThursdayThoughts Grove Press was founded in 1947 in Greenwich Village, #NewYork.

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HaroutEkmanian

Pursuit of legal claims for #reparations by descendants of #ArmenianGenocide survivors is a HUMAN RIGHT, it is a basic form of redress & justice for atrocity crimes victims. Moral posturing

Anupam Gupta

b50

"purely legal thing" and "own sweet time" got me thinking. Quick thread. So the idea that if you're rich, you must have made your money illegally is widely accepted in

Oleg Benesch

OlegBenesch

Thread: Recent discussions of Abe's tenure reminded me of an episode following a G20 dinner in Osaka last year, when he came in for considerable criticism for comments about the

Salvator R. Tarnmoor

s_r_tarnmoor

Happy Easter to all! In honor of the day, another thread about 1990s animated children's movies and political philosophy, this time about The Prince of Egypt, which I watched on

Lux 🧠 Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

The thing I find irritating about Dave Chappelle is that he understands that language matters and that jokes rely on cultural context when it's about something *he* doesn't like, but

Stephen Walt

stephenWalt

1. Here is a thread on research projects that don't go as we might have hoped. 2. In a candid survey of his career in ANNUAL REVIEWS, Bob Keohane briefly

Bob From Brockley 🥤

bobfrombrockley

You’ve probably all heard of Spiked (Koch-funded, formerly the Revolutionary Communist Party/Living Marxism) and its recent roles in Farage’s Brexit Party (Baroness Fox) & Boris’ Tories (Munira Mirza). I hadn’t