#Economist

Matthew Holehouse

mattholehouse

The Patel/Alex Allan affair is a small but exact example of the trend in this week’s cover story on executive power: the relaxing of post-1976 restraints on ministers, the widening

Pakdel.MD.PhD.

DrAmirPakdel

Long before I entered med school, I did a ROI analysis to figure out the opportunity cost of becoming a doctor. Financially, I will catch up to my cohort that

Martín González

martgnz

THREAD: This is how the US 2020 results look by county if we scale the vote by population density. There’s still votes to count along the East coast but the

Gregg Carlstrom

glcarlstrom

Since "pivoting east" is still popping up in Lebanese media, quick thread. It's true that China doesn't impose political conditionality. They don't care if you're a democracy, a dictatorship or

Kendall G Pace

KendallGPace

Freaking brilliant. THEY LOOKED AT DATA!“Crowded subways pose little risk, if windows are open & passengers wear...Sitting diagonally, rather than directly across from each other can reduce risk of infection

David Doney

David_Charts

The economy performs far better under Democratic Presidents. This thread gives you some links and charts for arguing about it with your conservative friends. Let's start with a summary article

Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊

Stand_with_HK

The Economist article on the call to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics “Calls to boycott the event are stronger now than they were in 2008. In September more than 160

Dina Srinivasan

DinaSrinivasan

Expanding on this idea.Look, not long ago, credit card firms robbed consumers by burying rates and terms in long contracts that people don't read or understand. We passed a bunch

Sam Freedman

Samfr

Worth taking a step back from the specific exam fiasco this year and look at why we put so much emphasis on high-stakes exams in the English system (not uniquely

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

The present anti-China hysteria is profoundly racist. The Economist deems it's OK for everyone else to eat meat except the Chinese I'm amazed at the number of anti-China journalists who

Daisy Christodoulou

daisychristo

HOW FAKE NEWS SPREADS.On Weds night, at 9.49pm, @Telegraph tweeted this.https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1293650828180574208 It quoted Gavin Williamson:"Mr Williamson said that, if teachers' grades were used, "we would hav

ines helene, ShroomGirl

inihelene

So far 2,487 have died of COVID in Japan, a country that tests about 270 a day for every million people. Their strategy? Japanese officials warn people to avoid the

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

#NEW I did some math & wrote a piece about what trouble with the USPS and vote-by-mail actually means in November. The takeaway is that above-average VBM usage & ballot

PJ Sage

peejsage

It's important to note that focus on P*rnhub and hasty withdraw of payment process at a time when Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being debated and potentially

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

"Dr Tim Rideout, Economist" has a reassuring ring to it doesn't it? You might assume the doctorate was in economics. You'd be wrong. It's in geography.https://twitter.com/lornagreens/status/1308017812909297667 Be fair,

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

This week marks publication of The Case for a Job Guarantee, @ptcherneva's brilliant, lucid pamphlet laying out the case for a radical rethinking of work and the creation of a

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