:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

It seems to me that Trump isn't just deprioritizing competence, he's selecting cronies for incompetence. In an autocracy this could be coup-proofing, but I'm not sure what's going on here

2027 budget request for the National Science Foundation reduces Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences (SBE) research funding *to zero*. Instead, the NSF is spending $900 million...to build a ship?

Drawing eyes on food boxes deters seagulls from pilfering their contents 👀

The Price of Strategic Incoherence in Iran For America, the war’s benefits won’t outweigh its costs.

The costs of the war in Iran will outweigh its benefits, write Richard Betts and Stephen Biddle. “In just its first weeks, the war has cost many billions of dollars in direct expenditure, reduced support for Ukraine, and shocked the global economy.”

Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa

From our FirstView article: Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa by @mattkribar.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.