Do leaders make history or history make leaders? The "3 Cs" answer: lnkd.in/eigVH3uw

Along with a great group of colleagues, here's our Symposium Honoring Joe Nye just out in H-DIPLO, Jervis Forum,

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5 worst days in history of US stock market ALL under REPUBLICAN Presidents — just sayin’. Here are the worst days in the history of the US stock market - ABC News

AMA revoke his license?

This Is the Land of Wolves Now Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.

America is now a place that sends masked secret police to abduct people off the street and uses prisoners to create government propaganda.

And this all happened in 8 weeks. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

Trump does extortion, Musk bribery

LOL x.com/lepettre/sta...

Today the US Administration incompetently tried to seize control of the Institute of Peace—an organization that is not part of the government, and over which it has no authority.

www.usip.org/press/2025/0...

Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

Musk cant delete his true feelings www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

I’ve come to think there’s no other way to think about this than as a de facto coup d’etat

Trump blaming Biden for the
Trumpcession latest example of his BEEF— Blame Everyone Else First

Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Reverses Himself and Suspends Tariffs on Mexico for a Month

The Spitballing Presidency www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates

The President and Vice President of the United States acting like junior high school bullies www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

Cruelty www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Real effects on real people, and in Red areas not just Blue, check out the Red-Blue map

While the Washington, D.C., area is known for its concentration of government workers, the reality is that America’s 2.3 million federal employees are scattered across the country

‘The Interview’: Senator Ruben Gallego on the Democrats’ Problem The Arizona lawmaker diagnoses what he thinks needs to change in the way his party communicates with men, Latinos and Trump voters.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/m...

Lots of good points here

From applause line to real impact on real people Trump’s federal firings imperil government services from cities to farm towns

President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...

Trump’s BEEF strategy: Blame Everyone Else First

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

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Former Hostages in Iran Crisis Recall Jimmy Carter’s Quest to Free Them The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career.

"He Saved Our Lives": The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

Is anybody interested in the relationship between Nazi votes in 1933 and AfD votes today? Like with data? Like this?

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

I’d just like to state for the record that we’re not too far removed from a time when it would be expected for a politician to issue a statement distancing themselves from this.

A truly important (and obvious, even banal) point that really can’t be stressed enough: sometimes majorities get things really really wrong!

This is a GREAT IDEA.

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Re-upping short 2017 article written week before Trump's inauguration trying to dig deeper, warontherocks.com/2017/01/apar.... Core analysis resonating even more w/me, would love to know what others think?

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