#POLITICAL

Karen Young

ProfessorKaren

(Thread) This week I published two pieces on China's role as an investor and development partner in the Middle East. One for Bloomberg @bopinion:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-02/china-is-not-the-middle-east-s-high-r

Just Transition Greens

JTG_ie

1. In relation to @neasa_neasa 's votes and stance on the from 2016-2019 the Green Party introduced legislation and numerous amendments to prevent the eviction of tenants, in keeping with

R James King

RJamesKing1

It's Good Hawley / Bad Hawley day!Here's Good Hawley, once again, asking "Wait, why CAN'T we do something that is popular, helpful, and politically advantageous?"https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337070756371582980

mike tribe

miketribe66

What many people forget is “democracy” and “freedom” are generally delusions... if you don’t live in a totalitarian regime the ruling class have to find other means of controlling the

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

I wrote a piece for @policynetwork on how Covid may have improved our views aboutexperts but there’s a danger that the government will this to shift the blame for what

Yet Another Columnist

Sime0nStylites

This is interesting for two reasons.(i) A successful future is possible(ii) This is how it might lookToo much commentary has focused on disaster being inevitable (catastrophism) versus the capacity for

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

1/ One of the risks of using the term "Apartheid state" is that it could create the impression that Israel is an unusual anachronism - like South Africa was. A

saliltripathi

saliltripathi

Since @wsj's report on Ankhi Das and how her political leanings may be influencing how @Facebook deals with free speech and hate speech in India (by favouring @BJP4India), it is

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. The next five months will be the most dangerous for US foreign policy and our forces overseas in recent history. The pace of attacks is growing in Iraq and

Rakshith ಪೊನ್ನಾಥಪುರ

PonnathPuraaNa

Many political leaders and intellectuals from old Mysore were skeptical about unification of Kannada speaking areas. Former for impending loss of political power, latter for having to deal with gaps

Brendan Harkin

brendanjharkin

I was going to post this yesterday but fell into a very deep and satisfying sleep for 12 hours instead.Now I'm well rested, I'm going to drop the inflammatory Covid

Alheli Picazo

a_picazo

Short thread: This line of reasoning from Liberal partisans is insulting for a few reasons. First, what's been alleged about Payette by multiple people isn't toughness or assertiveness, but abusiveness.Yes,

Monstrous

moyosmrn

Lagbaja’s Súúru Lérè video pulls from a rich tradition of Nigerian political satire to tell us the history of Nigerian democracy In 1979 Alhaji Shehu Shagari and his comically tall

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

Inflation truthers are wrong — what’s true is that relative price shifts (not inflation!) have gone in a direction that’s bad for society, making entertainment cheaper but child-rearing much more

Julia Serano

JuliaSerano

I wasn't able to speak openly about who I was for the first 27 years of my life. because of transphobic "free speech". here's my response to "A Letter on

Matt Emerson

M_Y_Emerson

One of the biggest obstacles in contemporary evangelicalism is that many of us have been catechized and liturgically formed more by cable news and talk radio than we have been

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