🆕 Fostering negotiation skills in land and forest agreements
Today on VoxDev, Darin Christensen (UCLA), Alexandra Hartman (UCL Political Science), Cyrus Samii (NYU) & Alessandro Toppeta (The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)) outline research on Liberia: https://ow.ly/OXlE50Ypvug
CNN's Natasha Bertrand: "Officials acknowledged during a closed-door briefing Tuesday that Iran’s Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge + U.S. air defenses will not be able to intercept them all."
"Only one country has learned how to deal with Shahed drones at scale: Ukraine."
AWKWARD.
Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
One of the best of all time.
“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth
Dette er noe av det mest komiske jeg veit om i den norske besteforeldregenerasjonen. Hvis det blir krig så kan man jo bare dra på hytta hvor man er blitt helt avhengig av den innlagte strømmen og storhandle på kiwien nede i bygda en gang i uka. Og så må staten huske å ettersende helsepersonell.
04.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 44 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0
I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.
The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
04.03.2026 16:58 — 👍 3341 🔁 560 💬 106 📌 102
Bus on campus
Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.
This bus is electric!
Stripes made in Reading.
The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.
The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.
Tomorrow in the Commons: debate on cuts to FCDO – it faces the largest cuts of any department, especially in overseas development; Foreign Affairs Committee chair Dame Emily Thornberry warns staff cuts of 15–25% without a clear strategy are 'alarming' (h/t Hansard Society)
03.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
I learned a lot from my @brookings.edu colleagues here on the many implications of the Iran war. My own piece w/ O’Hanlon examines why the air campaign likely won’t produce democracy and stability.
www.brookings.edu/articles/aft...
As a long time fan of @economist.com going back to the last century, when James Callahan was PM (yes, that old!), it's a thrill to appear in print on their pages. Revised version of a web essay on the Supreme Court decision.
03.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them
02.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 153 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 1
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
If you think empathy is a bad thing, you’re almost certainly a bad person.
01.03.2026 03:34 — 👍 326 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 1I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 13048 🔁 5286 💬 86 📌 182A few more thoughts. USFP/natsec usually works from bottom up, even for prez-directed policies. Bureaucrats, mid-levels, political appointees work the problem, then top people bless it. Diplomacy (JCPOA) works like this. Military planning can move faster w/ prior plans, but similar. 1/
28.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 212 🔁 72 💬 3 📌 15
1. Å fy f….
Ikke rart Arkitekturopprøret elsker dette her.
La meg presentere: Haslehaven. Et mildt sagt omstridt utbyggingsprosjekt nær Hasle T-bane.
Og jeg avskyr det. La meg forklare.
Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
28.02.2026 11:54 — 👍 644 🔁 240 💬 16 📌 48Given constraints on munitions & logistics, I expected US to launch limited Iran campaign. Trump has instead announced most expansive goals imaginable: regime change, destruction of conventional military + end of nuclear ambitions. Unclear how US will square this circle.
28.02.2026 11:42 — 👍 155 🔁 49 💬 12 📌 11
FILTER AVSLØRER: Britisk professor tilbakeviser Asle Tojes fremstilling av kontakt med holocaust-fornekter i 2003 – og mener det burde få konsekvenser for Tojes verv i Nobelkomiteen. filternyheter.no/en-skam-for-...
28.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 117 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 5
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
28.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 6151 🔁 1819 💬 156 📌 95
My thoughts
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
We've entered the stage of the news cycle where the clear initial information has been reported, fresh reporting is hours or days away, and the gap in between is full of talking heads either constantly re-stating the bleeding obvious and/or speculating wildly based on nothing.
28.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 263 🔁 49 💬 7 📌 2
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Excited to share “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset” at JPR! Analyzing Arabic, French, German, Turkish, and Urdu sources, we gathered information on the backgrounds and experiences of 237 leaders across multiple regions academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
26.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
I dag har AUF anmeldt grove voldstrusler rettet mot meg i etterkant av mitt oppgjør med ytre høyre-aktivist Espen Teigen.
Tonen og aggresjonen fra hans relativt store følgerbase er svært radikal og hatet bobler over på såvel Facebook som på Twitter. Det vil jeg være ærlig om at er ubehagelig.
Jeg har svart på Asle Tojes innlegg i Vagant og Minerva, der han kom med nokså drøye anklager.
Å svare Toje er ikke alltid lett. Man må for eksempel velge hvilke feil og fordreininger man skal gå i rette med, og hvilke man skal overse.
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This is big. The last kingpin. Of Mexico’s biggest cartel- CJNG. Many thought he was already dead. Now he is.
22.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
I could write for days, months, years.
I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors.
I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok.
And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday
Del 1: Det er ein skandale det som nå skjer mot klimaaktivister i det norske rettssystemet. Ungdommar som bruker sivil ulydigheit i forsøk på å redde liv, blir bøtelagt for hundretusener av kroner, og dømt til fengsel. For det er så "store konsekvenser", i følge politiet.
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