While I was working at CEU in Budapest we discussed when CA regimes collapse into full autocracies and whether it would happen there. One idea was that it occurs when autocrats lose big, like Orban just did. It'll be interesting comparing Hungary to other cases to understand why he conceded.
ORBÁN CONCEDED
Tisza now at 132 seats, one seat away from supermajority.
And it will show the resiliency of democracy. It will give hope for Turkey, the United States, and India.
Breaking News from @theathletic.com: UCLA routed South Carolina, 79-51, in the women’s NCAA final to win the program’s first NCAA national championship.
Just call the game for UCLA already geez loiuse
The Pistons having all their stars out, being down 15 at half, away against the number one team in the country, but leading by 4 on the fourth is madness
Cream Abdul Jabbar and Milk Chamberlain are diabolically funny nicknames and it's unfair that one person should claim both of then
The fact that they only have Windwaker for the Switch 2 is criminal and is testing my willpower
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
When economists say that AI will change the economy due to labor-as-capital (a worker’s skill and knowledge can be used to train AI, scaled, leveraged and/or commodified), I don’t think it occurs to them that labor-as-capital also applied to American slavery.
There's a bunch of Chevening Scholars in my Masters classes and they massively enrich it. Impressive people and also so obviously wedded to going back and improving their own countries.
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
it ought to be interesting to see how the midterms shake out. lots of candidates out there. make sure you read up on them between now and november or else you’ll be looking pretty silly in the voting booth
This house makes me deeply sad that I will probably never own a house
The cover of the book Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food
What fictional CANDY/CANDY BAR--from a show, movie, comic, video game, book, etc, would you most like to try?
I'm gonna get the ball rolling by saying...pretty much everything featured in this literary classic would be Hoovered into my gaping maw like a whale-shark with krill
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Time was, American leaders defined themselves so strongly as honorable that they refused to contemplate starting a war out of the blue, because that would be too much like Pearl Harbor
The outlier on how these folks are treated isn't the USA; it's the GOP.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded
First paper accepted of 2026! Hopefully not the last!
I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression
Or being an people-pleasing amalgamation of what everyone has said before it
We should not be surprised that the man who called political science "gobbledygook" has not considered one of it most basic findings before making his decisions
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺
1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment
on repdata.com
3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study
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applications open Feb 1
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I meant that half rhetorically, but I am also genuinely curious how he confronts the mountain of evidence that obliterate his point of view
I would like to see how he deals with the hundreds of thousands of slaves who fled or tried to the North and Canada or the several slave rebellions (Nat Turners for example) or the fear the South had of Haiti bc of its successful Haitian revolt and so on