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Mobilizing to Protect Electoral Integrity

By Dan Nexon

On March 27, 2020

Over at the Duck of Minerva, two Indiana University professors – Jeffrey C. Isaac and W. Kindred Winecoff – have a post about the petition they’ve been circulating to protect the integrity of U.S. elections. Here’s an excerpt: Last Wednesday the two of us circulated an open letter from U.S. political scientists, expressing concern about […]

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Three Weeks?

By Erik Loomis

On March 25, 2020

Is it just me or does this seem ridiculously optimistic? A leading epidemiologist advising the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated the peak of deaths in the US coronavirus pand

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AMLO’s Incredible Irresponsibility

By Erik Loomis

On March 25, 2020

The response of Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to COVID-19 is astonishing, making Trump look rational by comparison. All around Latin America, governments have spent the past few weeks

If COVID-19 is our first taste of international cooperation after American hegemony, we’re in real trouble

By Dan Nexon

In Coronavirus , Hegemonic Unravelling

On March 23, 2020

There are a variety of forces pushing the United States toward the exit for global hegemony, but none is quite so frustrating as the Trump administration’s simple abdication from exercising leadership. Trump is doing his best to get the United States out of the game of providing international public and club goods. As Stephen Wertheim […]

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What if Hillary Was President During the Pandemic?

By Erik Loomis

On March 19, 2020

While Trump will murder many Americans through his sheer incompetence in admitting that COVID-19 is even a thing and then his malevolent incompetence in dealing with it, I’ve been somewhat surpr

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Teevee open thread: “In a room full of Timothy McVeighs, he kind of looks like Roosevelt” edition · March 27, 2023
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Music Notes · March 27, 2023
Kevin 🌻🇺🇦 I really enjoyed it, but I see I may be in the minority on this thread.
Teevee open thread: “In a room full of Timothy McVeighs, he kind of looks like Roosevelt” edition · March 27, 2023