@awhf.bsky.social
Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”
“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.
— Judge William G. Young
#AAUPvRubio
Poll after poll shows corruption is THE issue voters care about. And Jeffries goes out of his way to praise Adams, whose public corruption charges were dropped after Trump’s DOJ unceremoniously shut the case down?
Democrats have the winning hand right in front of them. Wild that they won’t play it.
Am I reading this correctly?
A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?
What the hell?
The primary reason TPUSA succeeded, thrived, and delivered significant political power is because wealthy ideologues patiently invested a huge sum of money for many years to give it time to establish a market presence.
A smart and correct strategy with huge pay-off!
fortune.com/2025/09/20/c...
Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein
when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
23.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 1073 🔁 188 💬 18 📌 50
New @businessweek.bsky.social feature: On a budget of $1 per American, NIOSH conducts or funds most US research on how to keep workers alive & well. The Trump Administration decided to blow it up.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH
Shot/chaser
20.09.2025 18:59 — 👍 416 🔁 214 💬 12 📌 10
Over at Can We Will Govern, @awhf.bsky.social explains how social scientists could help to rebuild the federal government.
19.09.2025 14:59 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0As I argued earlier this year, businesses have become increasingly incapable of working collectively towards their economic and political interests. Their silence and willingness to cave to the administration will hurt the economy, the rule of law, and democracy.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/09/t...
Last, special thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social for their public scholarship and willingness to engage with government folks on all these questions. A great model for how academics can build communities of researchers and practitioners around solving policy problems! /End
18.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ultimately, having academics support sound federal policymaking could build the case for why the federal government should support higher education-and perhaps help rebuild public trust in what we do as academics.
No illusions that this will be easy, but now is the time to start thinking! 7/
As I describe in the piece, economics already has a strong presence and there are good pipelines throughout the White House and agencies for junior and senior economists. But we should think about bringing in other disciplines too -- anthropology, political science, sociology, history. 6/
18.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0In the future, you could imagine a new federal agency (with $) that could help other agencies identify and quickly place teams of academics to support research and policy making and implementation. Ideally this would span academic disciplines to include fields not traditionally represented. 5/
18.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0I was so fortunate to work for leaders who were committed to this-but we should embed such opportunities more expansively and intentionally throughout a reformed federal government. That in turn could help quickly build capacity on day one post-Trump through temporary academic "tours of duty". 4/
18.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We should also be thinking about reforms to the federal government that could, among other things, create more diverse and stronger bridges between academics / universities and federal policymaking and administration. This happened pre-Trump, but often ad-hoc and dependent on individual leaders. 3/
18.09.2025 16:15 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0I draw from time in government to discuss how social science-and social scientists-could help collect knowledge we're losing from career folks and help turn that knowledge into actionable insights. We need to preserve that knowledge and that is something social scientists know how how to do!
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So many immediate horrors right now, but I appreciated the invitation from @donmoyn.bsky.social to reflect on the future and how social scientists could help with the eventual federal government rebuilding.
As @sbagen.bsky.social has argued persuasively, we need to start now with that effort! 1/
A free society is not one in which the government can use its power to silence critical speech. Decent people must oppose this.
18.09.2025 00:00 — 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.
18.09.2025 00:21 — 👍 1484 🔁 446 💬 45 📌 17Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”
15.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 1976 🔁 659 💬 35 📌 20I am sooooo tired of Why Is Child Care So Tough to Afford/Find/Staff/Operate stories that center anything other than this fact.
14.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 139 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 0Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.
09.09.2025 22:51 — 👍 14666 🔁 3382 💬 351 📌 111📣 Columbia’s Center for Political Economy searching for post docs for next academic year working on labor, firms and markets, and climate change!
Applications due 11/3, and I’m happy to talk to folks interested in working with the Labor Lab team! apply.interfolio.com/173083 📣
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
09.09.2025 05:02 — 👍 504 🔁 179 💬 125 📌 229
here's what the federal government should be doing now to support unemployed workers: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
And here's what states can do: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
This would be a good time to upgrade our unemployment insurance system, at the federal level and in the states
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:
lol wat
John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."
"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ... Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?"
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