One week to go! Please consider submitting an abstract if your research touches on how governments are reshaped by data infrastructures, tech vendors, and/or automated decision systems.

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Monday, May 4! More Info and to Register: bit.ly/4bzsdr5

The short course consists of two workshops and an interactive panel also featuring Tania Islas Weinstein and Samantha Majic.

Our time slot will be set soon, but please share and save the date.

Message me for more info!

We develop strategies for:

1. Making grounded claims about politics by studying art and pop culture

2. Thinking creatively about non-traditional forms and sites of research output

3. Positioning "cool" research as rigorous political science for editors, reviewers, hiring/tenure committees, etc.

Studying art or pop culture? Going to APSA? Join us Sept 2!

I'm chairing a "Studying Cool Stuff Seriously" @interpretivemm.bsky.social short course.

Featuring @mweitzel.bsky.social @micahenglish.bsky.social @jelenasubotic.bsky.social @alexislerner.bsky.social @colleenwood.rocks and more

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

If this hasn’t crossed your feed yet, take a second to enjoy this certified banger

Fantastic ideas here! I’ll share with my MENA writing solidarity group and through @apsamena.bsky.social

NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universitie...

In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often following federal or state political pressures, to police pro-Palestine and progressive speech on campuses across the country.

@merip.bsky.social

Day 506 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

2026 Spotlight Scholars Presentation — Interpretive Methodologies and Methods The Spotlight Scholars program highlights outstanding early-career scholars whose work showcases or advances interpretive approaches to the study of politics. On May 1st, our 2025-2026 Spotlight S...

For all interested in interpretive methods:

Join us Friday May 1 at 12:00pm ET for our Spotlight Scholars webinar, featuring three early career researchers. www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve....

Also check out the Research Digest I put together:
www.interpretivemethods.com/research-dig...

In MAGA biopolitics, teen births "crash"ing is a bad thing.

In AKP Turkey, women should have at least three children.

Everyday media, like cooking shows and #tradwives content, make these agendas more palatable to wide audiences

My article in Politics and Gender www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Important points. Both about Musk's antisemitism and how populist discourse works: by framing "elites" so that it looks like you're punching upward even when you're at/near the top.

Like how Erdoğan frames himself as a pious man of the people but lives in a 1000+ room palace steeped in corruption

New episode in our 2026 World Cup Debutants series now out!

Jordan’s historic first qualification. With @curtisryan.bsky.social, we explore football, identity, rivalries and politics shaping the game in that country.

Do listen and like, share and subscribe! www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis...

Worth reflecting on how fast public discourse on this has changed. When we published “The One State Reality” in @foreignaffairs.com in 2023, three influential participants in a forum the next issue called as antisemites (in kinda embarrassing and lazy pieces).

US-Israeli Attacks on Iran Show a Pattern of ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes New Lines verified three cases in Tehran and Karaj where sites were hit multiple times, increasing the harm to civilians and first responders for little military advantage

Editor's Pick:
An exclusive investigation has verified three cases of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran following a "double-tap" pattern — with multiple blasts increasing harm to civilians for little military advantage. @chrisosieck.bsky.social & @ntabrizy.bsky.social report.

Nice analysis of Orban's defeat. @grigopop.bsky.social's
survey shows lower trust in Orban allies Putin and Trump than the EU.

Domestic issues likely mattered more. But findings may support our argument that populists lack a feedback loop to course correct on FP.

foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...

For all EU citizens this is the minimum you can do by signing this petition. Enough EU complicity in Israel‘s genocide and human rights abuses. Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights : eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

For students and scholars from/working on MENA that are struggling to get work done amid everything, I have a writing solidarity group that I hope can help. We just finished Week 154.

Here's all the info: liselhintz.com/mena-solidar....

Feel free to share with students or anyone who might benefit.

Great discussion of how journalists and editors navigate media capture.

Resonates a lot with media industry people I interviewed who struggle with feelings of hypocrisy and try to find ways to assert agency.

Raises tough questions of whether everyday resistance challenges or sustains the regime.

See, it's funny because his administration is comically corrupt and constantly committing felonies and war crimes.

Trump sending Vance, Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with Iran The engagement comes as the fragile two-week ceasefire agreed to Tuesday evening is already being tested.

Trump's son-in-law, his business buddy and JD Vance are going to negotiate an end to the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran.

We need to talk about how fucked up this is. 🧵

My colleague Narges Bajoghli provides the smartest, clearest, most informed take I’ve seen on Iran’s LEGO videos.

Political, ideological, generational context - all there. From 20 years of research on Iran’s media makers.

I couldn’t pick a quote. They’re all too good.

nymag.com/intelligence...

U.S. to lead ceasefire talks between Lebanon and Israel in D.C. as Lebanon emerges as potential spoiler to Iran deal The U.S. is convening hastily arranged diplomatic talks next week in Washington, D.C., aimed at crafting a ceasefire in Lebanon​.

Wow

Ceasefire agreement did include Lebanon.

Trump: "agreed that included Lebanon."

Mediators: "believed the ceasefire to include Lebanon."

Pakistan announced it included Lebanon.

"However, the US position shifted following a phone call between Netanyahu and Mr. Trump."

CBS News:

This is so well done. 👌

The 2013 Gezi protests, attended and immortalized by artists, fueled the ruling AKP's culture war.

Its campaign extended into every genre. And as programming moved to digital platforms, new laws controlled streaming content as well.

All a good push to finish my book on pop culture and autocracy.

The detainment of a Turkish comic for a vulgar joke about Süleyman the Magnificent may seem weird but not significant.

But it's similar to 2012 sanctions against the "The Magnificent Century." The show's risqué scenes sparked a culture war by a party intent on controlling Ottoman representation.

America's Middle East: The Ruination of a Region America's Middle East: The Ruination of a Region - Kindle edition by Lynch, Marc. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading America's Middle East: The Ruination of a Region.

Six months ago I published this book explaining how American primacy had been bad for the Middle East. It anticipated much of what we have just lived through and so many are still living through. I hope you’ll read it.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWRVH66...