Um Härte zu zeigen, bricht die deutsche Regierung ihr Versprechen, die schutzbedürftigen Afghanen aufzunehmen und liefert sie den Taliban aus. So viel Grausamkeit für bisschen Symbolpolitik. Es ist nicht zu fassen
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
Zumindest für die erste Frage ergibt sich für mich nicht direkt eine Legitimationskrise. Dass etwa China deutlich effizienter Wind- und Solarparks errichten kann, ist ja mittlerweile eine Binsenweisheit. Daraus aber eine Legitimationskrise zu lesen, fände ich übereilt.
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...
Wekler: "Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?"
Trump: "I don't know."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
„Both France and Germany are currently working to keep the Union together: they see each other now as natural partners. But only Germany has a Plan B - Russia.“ - well, this part of Prisoners of Geography didn‘t age well…
Only 14 pages in Tim Marshall‘s „Prisoners of Geography“ and it is already perfect for a geography noob like me: „The CSTO suffers from not having a name you can boil down to one word“ -> already erased from my Gen Z, 15 seconds attention span TikTok brain.
Ein schwer erträglicher Artikel über den immensen Verlust an Menschenleben und das große Leid, das das Ende von USAID für den globalen Süden bedeuten würde.
Nichts — wirklich gar nichts —, was Trump und Musk tun, ist grausamer und katastrophaler als das.
We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946!
www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
»The political scientist Kenneth Waltz famously argued that when it came to the spread of nuclear weapons, “more may be better”—because all international rivalries would be durably stabilized by the prospect of mutually assured destruction. The world may be about to test his hypothesis.«
Trump administration has identified words to be banned on government websites or at least be wary of using. Among them: women, race, injustice, climate science, pollution, victim, historically. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Current reading since last Friday, still struggling to find a research question though, open to suggestions.
🇺🇸🤔 The White House is giving potential job candidates litmus tests in interviews to make sure they are sufficiently loyal to Trump and his second-term agenda, - Bloomberg
Gebt den Sondierungen noch zwei Wochen und Markus Söder baut uns allen kiffend ne Wärmepumpe ein.
I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).
"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.
#BTW25 #GermanElection
I also doubt that many people realize the impact of the change, let alone the normative significance of districts without representatives…based on the number of questions I have received from friends about "how does this first and second vote work? What does this say about my peer group?
The 12 types of Political Science paper.
What's missing #polsci?
Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers
