#Politicians

Simon Moore

Simon_C_Moore

We're 6 hours in to Leeds City Council's Plans Panel debating whether to allow the expansion of Leeds-Bradford Airport. And I've no idea which way this is going to go...1/

hannah anderson

sometimesalight

Wanted to circle round on this from last week & reiterate the importance of getting underneath the issues. Last fall, @ErinStraza & I did a @PersuasionCAPC series to highlight those

IDFC Institute

IDFCinstitute

#YearinReview Here is our list of 5 of the most interesting papers on state capacity this year! Devesh Kapur's 'Why Does the Indian State Both Fail andSucceed?' seeks to explain

Sergio Gonzalez

smgonzalez27

Fascinating invocation of the term 'hospitality' by Green Bay's @MayorGenrich in anticipation of #POTUS's Wisconsin trip. As my research shows, political leaders have often cited the state's history of welcoming

MIT Technology Review

techreview

This is a thread about how Australia has become the battleground for a power struggle between governments and Big Tech, as explained in today’s Download newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/955gz977l7-802986?e=f20ccb8e64 Austra

Omnipotent Moral Busybody

OBusybody

1/14 Given the @IHSA_IL is deciding soon on the fate of athletics this fall, it is a good time for a thread on the reasons they should be allowed. I'll

Melon 🍈 🌈

writerofscratch

Beate Sirota Gordon did indeed put women's rights into Japan's constitution, but what this article does not teach you is that (mis)interpretations of Article 24 are also used as an

Peter Marshall

marshall_proEU

I’m so angry about this ‘haute Remain is responsible for hard Brexit’ bullshit. When I stood for Parliament in 2017, I stood in hustings and said ‘Brexit is happening. We

优述/You Shu

You_Shu_China

Chairman Rabbit (兔主席, a.k.a. Ren Yi, grandson of Ren Zhongyi, a CCP leader), writes a blog popular among youngish Chinese professionals. He’s a robust, Harvard-educated defender of CCP-led China and

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Yes, I think this is the most succinct & accurate summary of its features. I also think it'd take another book to explain what this does and doesn't mean and

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

ICYMI: last week we published two stories on what science tells us about how to minimise risk to you & others as economies reopen.(https://www.ft.com/content/2418ff87-1d41-41b5-b638-38f5164a2e94 &https://www.ft.com/content/202a6f8a-

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

stephenniem

This conversation about @UTAustin athletics raises interesting points. Buckle up, it’s time to talk about the value of the humanities and ask how we got in a situation where it

Tuxedo Mask

TheLoveBel0w

THREAD: The line between inept government and bought government is often blurred, and that's intentional. Those doing the buying have convinced people that policies for the greater good are "pie

Jack Meihoffe 🇺🇸🦅(It’s German)🐝

donfather_the

The [DS] Deep State has been in power starting in 1913 with the cleverly named “Federal Reserve” banking system. In 1960 the elected a man that wanted to end

Will

willehelmwonka

I want to talk abt knowing a foreign language. A thread.1/ Whether western reporters’ lack of Chinese language skills hinders their ability to do the jobs always seems to be

Ming Ong 王泉明

chuanming_

Dutch CDC director Jaap van Dissel, in an interview w/ AD, picked up by national broadcaster NOS, stating that going forward new measures should be introduced sooner. This seems a

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