Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
If only there had been another choice. Someone with a proven track record.
Wisconsin's Ben Wikler comes up short in bid to lead national Democratic PartyWisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler came up short in his bid to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was defeated by current DNC vice chair and head of Minnesota's Democr...www.wpr.orgThe New RepublicA party chair, when his party doesn’t control the White House, has two jobs: Raise money and (as Martin correctly said 17 months ago) to be a very public attack dog. He seems to have failed operatically at both. trib.al/2wLDoz6
The question these reporters should be asking is "This is illegal under international law and the United Nations, of which we are a member. Can you explain why you're doing crimes?"
Aaron RuparQ: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
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Aaron RuparGM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.
Outstanding insight into likely effects of student visa time limits on study and post-study training. Other countries will absorb some, but not all of the talent. The setback to scientific progress will concentrate in the US but will be global in scope and have lasting if not permanent effects.
Michael ClemensThe US Administration just restricted the duration of student visas. What's the problem? Now political appointees have full discretion to block most international students from staying after graduation. They've promised to use their new power to do just that. My new @piie.com post explains—>
Since we’re doing more Odyssey Discourse here today, I’ll simply note again that I enjoyed it quite a bit, on its own terms as a big budget Nolan summer movie, & I have only two real complaints:
Mark CopelovitchAlso a bit disappointed that Menelaus Berzatto did not advise Telemachus to go back to Ithaca and “Let it rip”
If the media were serious about covering higher education in 2026, the actual National Conversation™️ would be “How have universities managed to retain such a high level of trust, relative to almost all the other institutions in 🇺🇸, amidst decades of assault from the far right authoritarian party?” 🧐🤔
Chris WarrenPrices permanently going back to [imagined better earlier level in years or decades of yore] is simply not something that has ever happened in the lifetime of anyone currently alive in the US or ~any other country.
Mark CopelovitchThis is probably true but it <literally has never happened> in the lifetime of a single living American. It is a completely imagined phenomenon. Prices sometimes stay flat but they never permanently go back to earlier levels.
👇🎯 It’s 2026. No one should be arguing that Joe Biden caused all the inflation, or that returning the price level to 2019 was something that was either going to happen or was even desirable in the first place.
Tony YatesIf we just tried to drive the price level down [which is easy, a knowable and doable thing] the bi-product would be a gigantic recession.
👇🎯 @sulliview.bsky.social expertly articulates what should be the unanimous view among journalists & media outlets of Trump & how to cover him, & should have been adopted in ~2017. And yet here we are, almost a decade on, & every day is another day in which <all together now>
“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.www.publicnotice.coPaul GuinnessyAs expected the #WHCD was a disgrace, and everyone up on that stage tarnished their careers. @sulliview.bsky.social has some thoughts on what damage, beyond their self respect, was done to journalism that night.
Nothing today on the front page or the editorial page. These pieces continue to have exactly zero impact on how the NYT subsequently covers the unprecedented lawless authoritarianism. Just back to business as usual. An entirely broken model of political journalism.
Mark CopelovitchWhy I both still subscribe to @nytimes.com & am such a loud critic: this is incredible journalism AND tomorrow the front & editorial pages will go right back to normalizing & euphemistically sanewashing the unprecedented authoritarianism & corruption as if this article were never written.
The public admission of the open looting of other sovereign UN member-states would have ended any other presidency since Truman. But alas, everyone in power has decided that he is One Special Boy & the laws, the Constitution, & our ratified international treaty commitments do not apply to him.
Mark ChadbournTrump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”
Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
Definitely worth reading to the end. Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever 👇
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌This review is like being Chotiner’d: “Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odysseyis not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely.” First paragraph, I’m dying www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...