#POLITICAL

It's really worth remembering how this works, at least - how people with guns storming the democratic seat of government wasn't how it started. It started with people quietly seeing
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Happy Election Day! For the 117th time, Americans will elect Representatives and Senators to meet in Congress next year. And for the 59th time, we'll pick a president to govern
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Two related but distinct reasons to regulate instructor-student sex: 1) "Abuse": sex under conditions of unequal power can create *sexual harms.* 2) "Equity": Sex can create differential access (or perception
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Read Jim’s thread. This has been the problem with “evidence” from the beginning re Dominion. Plenty of *possible* vulnerabilities, but your iPhone has them too; you can’t establish definitively you’ve
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Late publicizing this but I had an article in the Labour History Review last year about how Chartists split from Radical-Liberals to form the first independent working-class electoral party in
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I think the siege mentality of many in @sinnfeinireland is an obvious – & in many cases understandable – response to unquestionable media hostility in the Republic (& a longer
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Far better informed people than me have commented on the actual winners and losers associated with #GameStop and the #RedditArmy attack on the stock market (see @StephenPunwasi to start) but
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The pernicious rise of conspiracy theory—accessible, attractive, violent—is arguably the biggest threat to open societies today. This threat is most acute in the US. Twitter's choice to deplatform aggressively, including
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Who's written the best piece about why @SenatorSinema is so much more conservative than her state requires of her? Why deny people aid & stymie climate policy & generally cause
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“Islamic Unity” For the Shias who keep chasing it.Thread.. You can find many of those who call for “Unity”, are far and away from It. Some callers of unity use
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I think for myself that talking about the AmRev as “unfinished” is perhaps the most useful discourse we can have around the memory of the AmRev & in defining our
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Theodora, (497 CE—548) was a Byzantine empress, wife of the emperor Justinian I and one of most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Her intelligence and political abilities made her Justinian’s
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I’m surprised to see how many historians I know have signed a letter which calls to perfect a racist test rather than eliminate it altogether. The problem with the test
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Pardons are supposed represent mercy to the contrite, not Christmas presents to political allies or to murderers, perjurers, and corrupt politicians who still claim innocence. Some of the pardons were
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I want to say thanks to all those who have reached out with kind words about our story and the value of the investigative reporting @charlesrusnell and I do. I
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I/6 Some were surprised by my response to @advocatemahere, because they did not read my article on reforms, to which she responded with an anti-intellectual attack; while posing as a
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