#Policies

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Someone explain Brazil to me. Excess deaths *fell* early in the epidemic, and no metric of any policy or social distancing behaviors predicts the peak in excess deaths now occurring.

SNP Socialists

SNP_Socialists

SNP Socialists statement on Covid-19As socialists in the mass party for Scottish independence, we call on all working-class people and socialists to acknowledge, oppose and resist the UK government’s dangerously

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Thoughts on "virtue signaling". What does virtue signaling do? Virtue signaling is often derided as inauthentic, or too easy. Neil, however has defended it on evolutionary grounds, as signaling is

sai priya

priya_27_

It is highly offensive and insensitive of the muslims in India to highjack the #BlackLivesMatter movement to trend #muslimlivesmatter. Muslims enjoy rights above and beyond the majority in India,

Inès Abdel Razek

InesAbdelrazek

I've been asked by a journalist if the issue of #SheikhJarrah was "a private dispute", thereby serving Israel's propaganda. While 1000s of Palestinians were demonstrating across historic Palestine tonight, a

Polla Garmiany ☀️

PollaGarmiany

Ismail Abulfeda, known as Abulfeda, was a Kurdish 13th/14th-century chronicler, geographer, commander, and Emir of Hama. He wrote "The Concise History of Humanity" which was translated early on into Latin,

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

As coronavirus infections flare up across the world, from Spain to Australia, there are two countries worth paying attention to: Italy and Swedenhttps://trib.al/5co5dSU While the daily case count in Spain

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – End the Reparations Nonsense1. Reparations are back in the news again, as a Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizer the other day called looting stores in Chicago “reparations”: 1A.

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/A follow-up thread on Nobel Prizes and Big Questions. Branko asks: Why don't we award prizes for economists who work on the incredibly important question of how China grew so

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Econ Twitter:Tell me where the below is wrong or add nuance to some of the claims:- Misconceptions around monetary policy- Similarities btw 1929, 1990s (Japan), & 2008 & lessons learned-

GET A GRIP

docrussjackson

So here we are again.A #THREAD on some lessons for @Keir_Starmer & @UKLabour from when John Smith became Labour leader back in 1992, after another humiliating defeat.How does Labour become

BlackCalvinist

BlackCalvinist

A few words.By the time some of you show up desiring to "show black folks that racism is a thing of the past" (thinking we've never heard this before), we've

Casey Blair

CaseyLBlair

It's exhausting to feel like we have to have the same conversations Over And Over #onhere.Musing about how this is becausea) everyone joins the conversation at different times, from different

Sun Sherman

SunSherman

Request, please address all the Federal , State, County & Local Law & Order directly . Look direct in the lens & tell them that Trump is using you &

Benjamin Braun

BJMbraun

Draghi’s Recovery Plan for Italy mentions productivity and competitiveness 50 times. What is it – Keynesian investment program or good old structural reform? Both! To see why, let’s take a

Noah Kaufman

noahqk

It’s Friday so can I interest you in awith a highly incomplete and self-serving history of the “optimal” taxation of carbon dioxide emissions? *proceeds without waiting for answer*Let's do this!