#Partisanship

Josh Rogin

joshrogin

Exclusive: Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Bidenhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/ On

Steak-umm

steak_umm

here are some thoughts on how we can come together amidst this pandemic and economic crisis, despite the challenges of misinformation, media inundation, partisanship, and cultural polarization. THREAD this is

Steve Bullock

GuitarMoog

This will, I think, be my last post on UK politics.It a) makes me desperately unhappy; b) damages my mental health; & c) is futile with the current parties and

Crommunist

Crommunist

There are already calls for "forgiveness" and "healing" and "reaching out" now that Joe Biden is elected.I understand the impulse behind these statements, but they are FUNDAMENTALLY immoralThread The best

Norbert Musana

NorbertMusana

Its an absolute shame that @Cambridge_Uni is providing a platform to a genocide sympathiser. #JudiRever #Kwibuka27 Judi Rever’s claims of Akayesu’s innocence are typical of how these genocide scholars take

Edward Walker

edwardwalker

I've been studying the role of outside funding and infrastructure in social movements and lobbying campaigns for some time, and it's been interesting to witness this moment with the "reopen"

Michael Hattem

MichaelHattem

The National Review’s brief notice of Bailyn’s passing has a few problems worth pointing out about his historiographical significance and what it thinks it says about contemporary partisanship and the

nell thomas

nellwyn

Over @TheDemocrats, we’ve been working to bring transparency and accountability to social media platforms. This includes documenting policy violations. As this article hints, @Facebook sends us some ridiculous answers to

Laura Bronner

laurabronner

How the unevenness of America's democracy threatens to unravel it, by @baseballot, @elena___mejia and me:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/Or, in other words, how Republicans have harnessed political institutions to gai

Dan Nexon

dhnexon

If you read a textbook-style account of conflicts centering around the Protestant Reformation(s), it'll probably focus on theological disputes: justification by faith, the lay chalice, baptism, the meaning of "hoc

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

I have been trying to process this week’s unrest through the historical lens of the (GOP-driven) politicization of protests against police brutality & the corresponding political importance of (white) racial

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYT editor Dean Baquet makes highly revealing statement about the 1619 Project: "The project fell fully within our standards as a news organization. "https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1316017794664652800 The declaration is t

Jay

OneFineJay

Apropos of no drug in particular: off-label prescriptions are common and despite what some people are trying to hammer here, the FDA issues guidance on the use of pharmaceuticals. When

Tim Carney

TPCarney

A politician’s beauty appt is usually a petty story. But Pelosi’s trip to the stylist is no longer a petty thing if everyone else’s trip to the barber, the local

Chaz Nuttycombe

ChazNuttycombe

Looking at the races where there were scandal-plagued incumbents. All of them won. It doesn't seem that scandals affect state legislative candidates anymore: they can pretty much get away with

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

Nothing the Fed does is apolitical. The politics are just different from those in other political institutions.https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1300500020924485632 The creation of the Fed was one of the epic political battles of