The coming great global land reshuffle: Climate change and population pressures are beginning to drive a new surge of competition over territory (Michael Albertus)
Did DeepSeek just Deepsix Big Tech?
Five Ways of Looking at Trump's Economic Coercion of Colombia
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries: PEPFAR’s computer systems are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return – PEPFAR has been credited with saving over 25 million lives and halting the spread of HIV across the world.
Rethinking Trade Imbalances | Paul Krugman
The problems with that viral poll blaming Harris’ loss on Gaza
ISQ study: States want to cooperate on technology to stay at the innovation frontier, but they fear weaponized interdependence. The Snowden revelations and US technology restrictions produced a shift in China away from technological interdependence, toward security-focused self-reliance.
America's plan to control global AI
Why McKinley makes an alarming Trump presidential role model
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
DeepSeek and the Future of AI Competition
Women who are denied a wanted abortion are more likely to suffer health problems, economic problems and ending up single than the women who were granted an abortion. The pre-existing children of these women also experience worse outcomes. [Data from Colombia where judges deny or allow abortions]
On January 26, 1996, Olympic Wrestling Gold Medalist Dave Schultz was Gunned Down by His Patron John Du Pont, Member of the Infamous Family That Invented Teflon and Put Forever Chemicals in 98% of Americans
The Limits of Madman Theory – MT often fails for two reasons: First, it's hard to actually persuade adversaries that you are a madman. Second, adversaries are not going to yield to the credible-seeming threats of a madman if they believe the madman will punish them even if they yield.
Petrostates often spend more when there is a lot of oil revenue and enact austerity measures when oil revenue dries up, making economic swings more volatile. This does not happen so much in Norway thanks to institutions established over the past decades. (Tontine Coffee-House, January 2025)
APSR: Colonial powers redistribute power toward the local elites who are the most congruent with the colonizer’s objectives and away from oppositional local elites. Evidence from the British occupation of Egypt in 1882.
The Limits of Madman Theory – MT frequently fails for two reasons: First, it's hard to actually persuade adversaries that you are a madman. Second, adversaries are not going to yield to the credible-seeming threats of a madman if they believe the madman will punish them even if they yield.
WP study: How economists and political scientists differ in their understanding of the political economy of climate change.
Trump’s “America First” Is Not Realism (Jonathan Kirshner)
No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960: Differences in education and government institutions set the East Asian Tiger economies apart from others that experienced slower growth in the mid-20th century. Oliver Kim, Jan 2025
Why reducing immigration won't ease public concerns.
Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations
POP study: Huawei technology transfers facilitate digital repression in autocratic countries but has no impact in the world’s democracies, which have laws that regulate digital privacy, institutions that punish government violations, and vibrant civil societies.
TikTok is deploying platform power in unprecedented ways.
