💥Brussels sends UK a list of eight demands in document seen by Andrew Bounds & Peter Foster, as Commission insists on tough line towards relationship negotiations despite warm rhetoric following Starmer election ft.com/content/435933… via @ft

Walz was a football coach, but also the faculty advisor for a gay-straight alliance in **rural Minnesota in the 1990s** 🥹🥹 startribune.com/tim-walz-s-cam…

Why America's Workers Should Rejoice about Harris's Pick of Tim Walz as VP -- from his enacting 12 weeks' paid family & medical leave in Minnesota to enacting innovative protections for Amazon workers to expanding collective bargaining rights for teachers slate.com/news-and-polit…

We are hiring at LSE Sociology, TT asst prof in quant methods and economic sociology! I won’t be at ASA Sociology this year, but get in touch if you’d like to learn more about the post/department. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310055/as…

Interesting development from APSA.

And so it begins

My essay this morning in The Guardian's fabulous "long read" on impressions from a recent visit to Israel theguardian.com/world/article/…

I’m APSA-bound: join me for 3 great panels! First, what can the EU teach us about the development of polities that aren't Weberian states? R. Daniel Kelemen, Siv Cheruvu, Matthias Matthijs, Craig Parsons, Chase Foster, Kathleen Thelen, Kaija Schilde, & I share our ideas! (1/n)

Receiving an official letter from the tax office addressed to ‘Herr PhD Foster’ brings back that German nostalgia. Where else could I find such a perfect blend of hierarchy, status and typo in the citizen-state relationship.

FT readers weigh in on the results of tonight’s debate

shareholder primacy is, when you stop & think about it, an *extremely* odd way to run a productive business enterprise I wrote a book about how to reform economic policy to move beyond it it comes out December 5th from the UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Dani Rodrik has a new 'trilemma' for the world economy. According to him, we can only achieve two of the following three at the same time: 1) combat climate change 2) boost the middle class in advanced economies 3) reduce global poverty

As ever, b-boy bouiebaisse is insightful: Springfield dogs & cats is not a meme; it is blood libel: incitement to racist violence. I've been thinking about his recent column: their insane rhetoric is meaningless on the surface, but deadly meaningful underneath. Media are missing this.

Launching a new LPE book series with Cambridge University Press. Send us your proposals! lpeproject.org/events/call-fo…

📢 SOAS Global Development Seminar Series! Join us for the first seminar of the 2024-25 series! Ilias Alami will discuss his recent book, co-authored with Adam Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism." The book argues that we are seeing a historic shift in state

EU-Commissioner for Animal Welfare