“I don’t know how you feel,” Kefauver said as he began his acceptance speech, “but I feel tired.”

At least, the Democrats had a ticket. Now came the hard part: Trying to beat Ike.

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My first bluesky poll! You have to answer on an external site, but otherwise it works great.

Share your thoughts on differences-in-differences!

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John Rawls and Liberal Guilt | Polity: Vol 58, No 2 In contemporary political commentary, “liberal guilt” represents a cynical attempt to express moral concern without engaging in genuine and transformative action. This critique, however, overlooks a reading of “liberal guilt” as an expression of a conflict that cannot be worked through, namely a commitment to a suffering other to whom one feels indebted, and an attachment to a specific political arrangement from which one extracts benefits. This ambivalence, I suggest, produces forms of “moral paralysis” or the production of gestures that do not disturb the terms of liberal consensus. My aim is to explore how this contradiction is expressed in liberal thought through a psychoanalytic reading of Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. The paper proceeds as follows: first, I will show how Rawls productively uses the work of Melanie Klein to ground guilt-feelings on terms other than those offered by Freud. Here, guilt is an expression of value that begets reparative gestures towards another. However, for Rawls, guilt can be expressed only in compressed and exchange-based terms that permit a return to political equilibrium and consensus. This means Rawls’s subject is endowed with a paranoid attachment to order, which dictates how guilt can be felt and enacted politically in relation to others. I show how this narration of guilt in Rawls’s thought gives theorists leverage to rethink “liberal guilt” as an expression of a contradiction between both paranoid and solidaristic attachments. Last, I show how “liberal guilt” may present itself as a site of political possibility.

Stephen Cucharo’s “John Rawls and Liberal Guilt” reexamines liberal guilt through Rawls. He argues it reflects an ambivalent emotion rooted in conflicting attachments with political potential. @stevecucharo.bsky.social
Read it now: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Call for Applications: 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) | Deadline: April 15, 2026 - Now Live: Applications for the 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER), a four-day, residential institute offering political scientists training to conduct ethical and rigorous…

The 2026 APSA #ICER applications close on April 15th!

Participate in the 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research #ICER, a 4-day, residential institute offering political scientists training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically-engaged research. #polisky

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Trump the great “negotiator”:
U.S. ships, aircraft, and troops are “loading up,” “looking forward… to its next conquest.”

“If it’s not complied with… the shootin’ starts, bigger and stronger than anyone has ever seen.”

That ain’t diplomacy. #BlueSky #LawSky #PoliSky #iran

Truman’s gambit fell flat, however, and Stevenson won the nomination on the first ballot.

He was ready for a rematch. One question remained, though: Who would be his running mate?

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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

to do it.” That’s how you stumble into a nasty war.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u... #BlueSky #Iran #LawSky #PoliSky

now hinge on a condition that isn't even part of the deal. #BlueSky #LawSky #PoliSky #iran #war

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We wrote a blog post about our recent paper in
@polbehavior.bsky.social, where we discuss whether political participation is associated with better policy representation #polisky

Don't miss the opportunity! Deadline for #internship applications at DEMSCORE coming up this Sunday, April 12.
Application information: www.demscore.se/about/intern...

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Even as They Praise Iran Cease-Fire, World Leaders Are Whipsawed by Trump

🔥 Six weeks of global whiplash.
Allies shaken. Markets rattled.
Even threats to “wipe out civilizations.”

Now comes “relief.”

As Spain said: don’t applaud the arsonist just because he shows up with a bucket. 🔥

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/w... #BlueSky #LawSky #PoliSky

John Boswell does Meta-Ethnography — Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series John Boswell (University of Southampton) will discuss the use of meta-ethnography in his forthcoming book, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic St...

Are you interested in meta-ethnography? Professor John Boswell will discuss this approach using material from his upcoming book 'How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State'. Friday 5 June, online. Free registration: www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve... #polisky #pasky

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Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force1 | Polity: Vol 58, No 2 This study references 1,211 articles that mention “backlash” in sixteen political science journals to investigate how the term is understood and used in political science. We find that while backlash ...

Erica Townsend-Bell and Zein Murib’s “Backlash Blues” reviews 1,211 articles on “backlash.” They argue the term often leaves impacts on marginalized groups unspecified and needs clearer distinctions. @zeinmurib.bsky.social
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Trump says US could charge for Strait of Hormuz passage amid Iran war US president says Washington, as the 'winner' of the war, has a 'concept' for charging a toll in the strategic waterway.

End of freedom of navigation, and thus almost the entire basis of US power?

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

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BREAKING: Trump agrees to “double-sided CEASEFIRE” with Iran, pausing strikes for 2 weeks.

Deal—brokered by Pakistan—depends on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #PoliSky

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her family’s life. And it’s really hard to see it happening.”

How are we allowing this to happen?
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Pope Leo calls Trump's threat against Iran 'truly unacceptable' Pope Leo said on Tuesday that threats ​against the population of Iran are "unacceptable," in an unusual appeal hours ‌after U.S. President Donald Trump said "a whole civilization will die tonight" in ...

indefensible.

Threatening millions of innocent people isn’t strength — it’s reckless, authoritarian madness. The world deserves far better than this. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #iran #BlueSky #MedSky #PoliSky

Make sure your Emotional Support [Whatevers] are well stocked; this week is going to a doozy. As another poster mentioned, now is a good time to call your reps & remind them that we have co-equal branches of government designed to hold one another accountable and in check. #PoliSky #Hormuz #EconSky

Deadline this week!

CFP Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars panels

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www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

Now published on FirstView!

"Students often regard AI interlocutors as nonjudgmental and impartial, which reduces their fear of embarrassment, criticism, and peer disapproval that can suppress open discourse in traditional classroom settings."

Check it out: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky

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Discriminatory secularism and attacks on religious minorities in Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Discriminatory secularism and attacks on religious minorities in Europe

Excellent new work by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda examining how "discriminatory secularism" encourages violence against religious minorities in Europe.
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When leaders say “God is good” to sell a bombing campaign that’s killed thousands—including civilians—they’re not honoring religion. They’re weaponizing it. War isn’t the Resurrection. And God isn’t a PR strategy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u... #BlueSky #iran #MedSky #LawSky #PoliSky #religion

Pediatric Nicotine Exposures Reported to US Poison Centers This cross-sectional study investigates trends in pediatric nicotine exposures by product type and exposure route from 2016 to 2023 in the US.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky #addicitionsci #neuroskyence🛟🫁🌍⚖️

Increased nicotine poisonings of small children by inhalation from e-cigarettes compared to ingestion route between 2016-23. Will increased prevalence of nicotine pouches reverse the trend ?