#Policymaking

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Well, here's a depressing thread that I've known that I was probably going to have to write since sometime in 2016 or so. I was waiting to see how things

Kellynn

KellynnWee

I am gong to live-tweet the NUS Town Hall on the Monica Baey sexual misconduct case--going to quickly summarise what's happened so far to try and catch up Auditorium 1

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

For decades good government advocates have been arguing to reduce the number of political appointees. The current administration is a very good illustration as to why.Instead, Trump wants to remove

Secretary Betsy DeVos

BetsyDeVosED

The science is clear: students are better off in school than out. The risks of #COVID19 can be managed, but the educational and social risks for millions of students stuck

MIT Technology Review

techreview

Technology has let us down. This thread explores how to make it work for us again. Two entrepreneurs share a goal: to help people overcome opioid addiction.https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/17/1003310/a-tale-of-two-startups/?utm_medi

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Today @tylercowen has a nice wrong article on centralized quarantine where he (wrongly) states the only recent quarantine program has been in Cuba and (wrongly) states CQ requires family separation

Lukas Lehner

LukasLehner_

The amount of #COVID19 related research being produced within the last days is impressive and it’s hard to keep track. Several projects at OECD, WBG, Oxford, ETUC are tracking policy

Karol Cummins

karolcummins

ImpeachmentKent: "You can't take on a system of corruption without pissing off corrupt people."Kent said Giuliani’s efforts "undermined" U.S. national securityTaylor testifies of a "highly irregular" channel of polic

booklover jim 🍀

goodoldcatchy

1/Let's take a look at race, incarceration and prison labour in the US. I'll start with two graphics from http://www.sentencingproject.org , showing a state and federal prison population of 1,458,173 in