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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

Nick Kristof travels to Uganda and shows that the Trump DOGE cuts to foreign assistance and humanitarian aid are killing kids who are dying unnecessarily from hunger and disease b/c Elon needed a tax cut. Many stories of suffering of little children. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Couldn’t be more proud of @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social. Here’s the Kirkus Review for her upcoming children’s book.

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Bumping this back up -- deadline is about 24 hours from now. The application is short. Please consider applying!

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another.

I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

I’ll be climbing there with my family next month.

It was a joy to review Rebecca Tapscott’s @ox.ac.uk book, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Almost to winter break.

South Korea's president briefly declared martial law. President Yoon’s approval rating hit a record low, at just 19 percent, last week. So what's behind his declaration of martial law?

In an explainer for @goodauth.bsky.social, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday.

goodauthority.org/news/martial...

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

Just finished my fall quarter teaching intro to comparative politics and the politics of policing.

Even with the many challenges in higher education and academia, teaching remains such a privilege.

Applications are now open for IPSI 2025! June 8-12, 2025 Washington, DC.
IPSI is a five-day professional development program for professors and post-docs in the field of international affairs who want to build the tools and networks to produce and disseminate policy-relevant academic research.

Want some good news? However bad the next administration is going to be, very few models of strongman authoritarian rule start with the strongman losing publicly on his first picks as minister of war and head of law enforcement

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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Applications for “Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa”, a conference in honor of Nicolas van de Walle. Abstracts due March 1. Please join @cornellupress.bsky.social w the Center on Global Democracy, the Institute of African Development, & Govt Dept
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From our new issue: "In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes" by Sabrina Arias (@sabrinabarias.bsky.social) and Christopher Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social). www.cambridge.org/core/service...

⏰ Please share widely!

We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

The childcare reimbursement form for @APSAtweets 2024 conference in Philly is now open! It is due by August 2nd. It covers $500 of expenses, which can include a Philly based provider OR travel costs for a non-guardian caregiver connect.apsanet.org/apsa2024/chi...

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they we...

The Independent has made some major headway on the story of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary OK high schooler who died after being brutally beaten by older teenage girls at school.

They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.

In Love and at War Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - In Love and at War

watch this space! thrilled that "In Love and at War: Marriage in Non-State Armed Groups" will be the inaugural text in the Cambridge Elements in Gender and Politics.
www.cambridge.org/core/element... gendersky polisky

Hi there! We are Ufahamu Africa, a podcast about life and politics on the African continent. Cohosted by @dadakim.bsky.social and @beattyriedl.bsky.social.
www.ufahamuafrica.com

Hi, @profmusgrave.bsky.social can you add me to the Polisky list. Thanks.

Post-baccalaureate Fellow – Junior Specialist University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

Colleagues in political science, please share this opportunity for a full-time position at @ucrpolisci.bsky.social for a recent graduate who will support the NSF-funded MSIRA program. Will be especially beneficial for someone considering a PhD in political science!

Emory's political science department has a junior search for IR and an open search for CP.

Publication day for this co-authored article on the potential limits of human rights related trade linkage.

"The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/V7V8N...

My department, Political Science at Northwestern, is hiring in Comparative Politics!! Please check out the ad below and apply!! ⤵️💜

#polisky #PSJMinfo

Security Studies Tenure-line position (Open Rank) at Georgetown: apply.interfolio.com/132869

If you're around @notredame.bsky.social tomorrow night Kaitlin will be reading from her latest book, Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day.

We are searching for a tenure-track junior scholar in American Politics: www.sujobopps.com/postings/99908

The search is for political institutions. We are particularly interested in candidates who study public policy, Congress, the bureaucracy, interest groups, and/or race. policy PSJMinfo

🚨Job alert!🚨

We are hiring a TT Asst. Prof. in Global Politics (CP/IR) with a focus on democracy, autocracy, or conflict (broadly interpreted). Applicants who look at gender dynamics or utilize a political psych approach are particularly welcome.

wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...