🚨 FACT CHECK: Hamas and Islamic Jihad militias in Jenin are not resistance—they are outlaws and terrorists. They exploit children, arm them, and use them to transport weapons, as confirmed in video-recorded confessions. They detonate car bombs in city centers, murder civilians

The current meltdown in California insurance market — which is one of the major factors behind the number of homes built in extreme high fire hazard zones — dates to 1988. That’s the year California voters passed Prop 103. A political 🧵

In January 20, 1961, the temperature at noon was 22 degrees and 8 inches of snow had fallen in the morning. John F. Kennedy still had his inauguration on the steps of the Capitol.

🚨BREAKING: The Palestinian Presidency has released a statement regarding the ceasefire agreement, stating that the State of Palestine has legal and political jurisdiction over the strip, affirming its responsibility for governance, administration, and security in Gaza. In other

My dispatch from Damascus, written shortly after the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria. This is the most incredible story I have ever reported on in my life, and it is an honour to have it published in Foreign Policy. Hope won in Syria. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/hop…

JUST NOW: Tulsi Gabbard's notorious denial of the Assad regime's gassing of Syrian children was inspired by quack MIT professor Theodore Postol. The "expert source" Postol used to question Assad's responsibility? Notorious Assadist antisemite Twitter user SyrianGirl.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” This guy got two Bronze stars in Iraq and clerked for Roberts before landing at SDNY

As a result of violent attacks against three visibly Jewish Pitt students and a eruption of antisemitism in our city, leadership at the University of Pittsburgh asked me to co-chair a working group on antisemitism. It was an honor to be asked, but this is not work I want to do.

.The FAA ✈️: FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by Department of Government Efficiency

Brilliant, necessary thread documenting how DOGE's claim that it's saved $55 billion is totally bogus, built on bad math, an apparent lack of knowledge of how multi-year contracts work, and simple mistakes like reading $8 million as $8 billion.

Today I saw flu A, flu B, Covid, Strep, seizures, cellulitis, migraines, asthma and a swallowed penny stuck in the esophagus. I know how to recognize these, test for and treat them. They don't scare me. You know what scares me? Measles scares me. And that should scare you.

Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer5r…

The vast literature on oil as a curse for several outcomes such as democracy - launched by Ross - is surveyed in this gem of a book by Ben Smith 🤷 and David Waldner Free download of Ross: charlespowell.eu/wp-content/upl… Free download of Smith & Waldner: academia.edu/106660343/Reth…

Zelensky vs Trump? The real clash today was Sebastian Mazzuca vs Schenoni at Northwestern An all-Argentine debate. Did war or trade made the Latin American state? That was the question.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 Here are some books that help us think about how states were created and how they evolved - and that focus on cases beyond the rather well-studied European ones.

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new AJPS paper with Yotam Margalit, Lior Sheffer and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

From our new issue: "The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis" by Andrew Shaver (Andrew Shaver) et al. #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New Wendy Pearlman and I argue in Journal of Democracy that we must look to civil society as Syria's strongest asset for inclusive change and a better future. But, you might ask: Against these odds? And what civil society, anyway? 🧵1/5 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

After Hamas rejected the Egyptian proposal to disarm, its propagandists are now claiming the refusal is due to Israel not promising to withdraw from Gaza. They’re lying. Hamas refuses to even discuss disarmament. They’ve declared their weapons a red line—non-negotiable,

We really did it. We took a growing US manufacturing economy, declared it broken, started a trade war, and ... broke US manufacturing. In last 48 hours: - Philly Fed Survey: "New orders fell sharply, from 8.7 in March to -34.2, its lowest reading since April 2020" - NY Fed