"The proposed rule threatens to terminate housing assistance for almost 80,000 low-income people, including 37,000 children, most of whom are U.S. citizens or otherwise “qualified” noncitizens, and to force the harmful separation or displacement of about 20,000 mixed-status families…"
‘Higher education groups representing administrators and faculty filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a recent executive order that threatens to strip federal contracts from colleges and other organizations over their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.’
"The Economist’s new statistical forecast gives Democrats a whopping 95% chance of gaining at least the three seats needed to flip the House. More surprisingly, despite a Senate map that looks nearly impregnable, the model estimates that the party has a 46% probability of taking the upper chamber"
Proud to be a subscriber of The Atlantic.
Journalists at legacy media, like The Economist.
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
One thing stories like this highlight is how crucial it becomes to be able to have dual nationality when governments are getting nasty about residency requirements. Countries like NL that block dual nationality are basically telling parents they can never safely take the kids to visit grandma.
I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉
Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany.
More details and the paper link below 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Five geeks so famous that they can be identified by their first names exercise almost godlike command over the AI models that will shape the future.
Should they be entrusted with the world’s most potent new technology? econ.st/4mBYN0P
Have been waiting almost two years for the right article to smuggle this fact into.
(From my leader on America's misguided war on taxes: economist.com/leaders/2026...)
En Hongrie, Péter Magyar déplacera les bureaux du premier ministre, symbole d’abus de pouvoir de son prédécesseur
AMERICA'S TAX REVOLT
Republicans and Democrats alike seem to be ditching the idea that most Americans ought to be paying very much in taxes at all.
Increasingly, voters seem to agree. For Tax Day, I wrote about this troubling development for @economist.com.
www.economist.com/united-stat...
Proud to be a signatory on and have my research on the negative economic impacts of immigration enforcement used in this amicus brief arguing the harms of proposed termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Redid my leniency design IV slides based on the paper for JEP that Peter Hull, Michal Kolesar and I wrote:
github.com/paulgp/appli...
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
Caity Weaver has discovered the best free restaurant bread in America—and she’s going to tell you where to find it.
For The Atlantic’s May 2026 cover story, she surveyed more than 500 people and traveled more than 13,000 miles to track it down: theatln.tc/BZT3D2ex
Divorce can save lives!
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
Spent today in Szentendre and Budapest watching the most important election anywhere this year. Viktor Orban, a giant, totters and falls. Peter Magyar, a dynamo, may point towards what kind of candidates can take illiberal populism down. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Enraptured to see this! Congratulations to Magyar and Hungarian people!🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊
It has proved far more successful at demolishing venerable if neglected structures than at building anything new, and remotely as beautiful.”
“Here is revealed Mr Trump's essence, that of a freewheeling pragmatist untethered by any principled attachment to the rule of law. And this is why the hole itself, rather than Trump's Folly if it is built in the end, would be the most apt monument to this presidency.
Pat Kline: "I don't like the phrase 'causal inference' either because it's usually 'causal estimand identification' are what those papers actually are; there's nothing to do with inference typically; there's no distribution theory in those papers."
youtu.be/ifp_BUKl3ig?...
We did a thing! Cool project with amazing coauthors, see Luisa's summary and the NBER WP below!
“In 1965, Viola Liuzzo was shot dead on the highway while driving a fellow activist after the Selma march.
This month, Renee Good was killed in her car after stopping for immigrant neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Why tomorrow's election in Hungary matters so much www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Love #Hacks 🥺
Putting some numbers on the white supremacist goals
(To be really clear to my broad audience, the authors are against the white supremacist goals!)
