#Policy

Baruch Kogan

BaruchKogan

Normal people used to have homesteads and family businesses.Eventually, it became normal to be "employed," a condition formerly reserved to slaves, sailors, East India Company employees and other similar wretches.

Amro Ali

_amroali

The “Middle East” has been an unstable western construction for over a century. The @UNC illustrated what the US, UK, int orgs, and scholarship designated as the Middle East, Near

Peter Lewis - on the radio in Hong Kong

MoneyTalkR3

I for one will NOT be taking the free test and I don't buy for one minute the horseshit from the #HongKong government about it being a "civic duty." Taking

Pranay Vaddi

pranayrvaddi

New article in @lawfareblog with @S_R_Anders - "When Can the President Withdraw From the #OpenSkies Treaty?" brief summary thread below (1/9):https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1253035710602448897 (2/9) the future of U.S. participation

Noam Blum 🦉

neontaster

Casual reminder that "fire in a crowded theater" is a statement that marks you as an uneducated, blithering idiot. It blows my mind that these people keep using a defunct

Simon French

shjfrench

Some thoughts on extension to Oct of UK #FurloughScheme - now covering 7.5m jobs. Most clearly extension will save jobs by giving employers time to adjust to social distancing requirements

IfG events

ifgevents

A ten minute warning for this evening's #IfGDataBites event! Watch it @instituteforgov here: http://bit.ly/IFGDataBites12 Questions for our speakers?- Ask here: http://bit.ly/SlidoDB12 - Send a q in the Youtube comments-Tweet

Ben Franta

BenFranta

Something wildly under-appreciated is that climate is a tightly controlled field. A handful of “climate gurus,” often funded by the oil industry itself, dictate the climate education for many future

Shivaji Guerilla

GuerillaShivaji

Twitter is a very dangerous. Easy to connect dots, find family trees and in US even sale records.Interested folks can see that the son of our Foreign Minister is married

Paolo Vargiu

vargiu

[THREAD] [1/8] To point out that society is ableist is not a "j'accuse" against people of being consciously ableist: it is rather a(nother) example of how binary descriptions of reality

Quentin Quarantino Ferreira

psyQologist

Trump is easy to understand psychologically.He has narcissistic traits,which obviously & understandably rub people the wrong way.Yet, he really is special in that he is above average intellectually, he came

Scott Knowles

USofDisaster

There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It's one disaster process--carving it up into separable parts has allowed (some of) us to

Costa Samaras

CostaSamaras

As a very serious energy policy analyst, I'm contractually obligated to have a take on the @hausfath & @atrembath piece. I'm with @RyanMKellogg: fracking enables a *lot* of oil production

Andreas Fulda

AMFChina

The critique may be pointed but necessary. The problem is that EU institutions are disjointed; EU apparatus can’t formulate strategic China policy due lack of consensus among EU member states;

Michael Atkins

atkinsmike1

South Africa has quietly entered a phase (!?) of Quantitative Easing (printing money), to keep things afloat. Perhaps necessary now, but what the #RET crowd don't know (or don't care

Mandar Kagade

MandarKagade

Honest critique of the changed strategy. But the key argument, a moral one ( cite to Sandel) remains rebuttable.https://amp.scroll.in/article/992763/indias-plan-to-fragment-the-vaccine-market-across-the-states-is-mind-bogglingly-bad-economi