Month: November 2024

What Facebook did to American democracy, by @alexismadrigal

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-facebook-did/542502/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXlpTK6bZLbqKlwTQbuQK2A&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“If the United States abandons Ukraine, European states can start taking steps that the Biden administration, in its excess of caution, did not allow,” @PhillipsPOBrien writes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/trump-ukraine-survive-europe/680615/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQZy6eoBRtRwDZlfdeic5VY&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

In the last months of his campaign, Donald Trump was open about his dictatorial impulses. On “Radio Atlantic,” Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins speak with Hanna Rosin about whether his win means he will assume a mandate to act on them:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/are-we-living-in-a-different-america/680565/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYRdYMPjnr10Ibxz2ZLDDQrM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“The Democrats are officially the party of norms, procedure, bureaucracy, DEI initiatives, rule following, language policing, and compliance,” @pescami argues.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democrats-are-the-hr-department-of-political-parties/680634/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXXtBOZCtTpc3pgdvplRgsQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Should American workers fear immigration? The research is clear: Anti-immigration sentiment has no economic justification. Jerusalem Demsas and Rogé Karma discuss on “Good on Paper”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/immigration-worker-wages-myth-jobs/680523/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXsuG2Q9rZdtMO7UnSUW-qc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Should American workers fear immigration? The research is clear: Anti-immigration sentiment has no economic justification. Jerusalem Demsas and Rogé Karma discuss on “Good on Paper”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/11/immigration-worker-wages-myth-jobs/680523/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXsuG2Q9rZdtMO7UnSUW-qc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

“If a nation’s internal threats are perceived to outweigh its external threats, then its people will fear the costs, risks, and redistribution of building a competitive economy,” warns @mzak123:  

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democracy-acemoglu-nobel-prize/680522/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXyJff9_phYkuubZYi8yQ_c&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Election’s Other Biggest Losers? Economists.

Democrats have to reckon with the fact that voters don’t want what economists think is best.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/opinion/election-economists-populism.html?smid=em-share

There Were Two Huge Problems Harris Could Not Escape

The curling theory of campaigns proves itself again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/opinion/harris-trump-campaign-curling.html?smid=em-share