I'm not shedding a tear for Larry Summers, but it's striking how many more institutional consequences & negative news stories he's faced compared to MAGA/GOP men whose emails and alleged behavior, per the Epstein files, were far worse.
Harvard & NBER booted Summers. OSU circling wagons for Wexner.
Seems troubling.
More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.
I was lead amicus on this brief, signed by 13 other expert economists, estimating the economic benefits to the United States of continuing to honor TPS for Haitians —>
www.aclunorcal.org/sites/defaul...
Are you a PhD student/postdoc/early-career scholar studying immigration?
Want to spend time this summer in Mexico City w other immigration scholars?
Apply to the UC Davis Global Migration Center summer school!
I'll be there w 3 other amazing economists!
globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3
Aha! I knew that, with you in New Zealand we would soon see birds. Excellent!
06.03.2026 06:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm there with you today.
04.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations!
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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
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Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
A popular app in Denmark identifies American products so that Danes know not to buy them
www.independent.co.uk/tech/us-boyc...
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
19.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 7604 🔁 1074 💬 46 📌 132Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."
18.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 2358 🔁 697 💬 673 📌 245In the large: Mortality in France, 1816-2016.
17.02.2026 21:56 — 👍 221 🔁 74 💬 11 📌 14Gee this can’t have anything to do with married women needing passports to vote under the SAVE act could it?
16.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 122 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 1
Congress should act to categorically exempt statistical agency staff from this schedule.
Statistical agencies by definition do not set policy.
Their only power and purpose is collecting data & publishing credible, informative stats. Without political independence, they can't do this.
1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."
07.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 4797 🔁 1066 💬 124 📌 140
Sharing screenshots of your canceled subscriptions inspires others to Resist and Unsubscribe.
07.02.2026 06:37 — 👍 573 🔁 151 💬 48 📌 14By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
07.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 16289 🔁 5983 💬 267 📌 164
Disturbing chart. More than forty years ago, I completed an undergrad degree in modern history and economics. Still think that combination was the greatest education/preparation to understand (and in my case write about) the world.
05.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
"I have concerns about Kevin Warsh leading the Federal Reserve. Many have roots in his time at the Fed."
stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/kevin-warsh
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
📢now forthcoming in ECMA!
The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.
Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
There's a little less than a week until 1 February, when submissions to this year's ESPE conference in Helsinki (11-13 June) are due!
More info here: espe2026.org
Submit papers here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79627...
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
23.01.2026 04:59 — 👍 9365 🔁 1793 💬 128 📌 99I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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