The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated – Nationhood Lab
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond| Nationhood Lab
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond| Nationhood Lab
David Y. Yang.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Nation & World When global trade is about more than money Economist’s new tool looks at how China is more effective than U.S. in exerting political power through import, export controls Christy DeSmith Harvard Staff Writer August 27, 2025 6 min read International trade can yield far more than imports and exports. According to David Y. Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, trade can be used to wield political power. Yang watched ...| Harvard Gazette
Jonathan McHugh/Ikon Images Nation & World Global concerns rising about erosion of academic freedom New paper suggests threats are more widespread, less obvious than some might think Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer August 26, 2025 8 min read Political and social changes in the U.S. and other Western democracies in the 21st century have triggered growing concerns about possible erosion of academic freedom. In the past, colleges and universities largely decided whom to admit and hire, ...| Harvard Gazette
Getty Images Health How to reverse nation’s declining birth rate Health experts urge policies that buoy families: lower living costs, affordable childcare, help for older parents who want more kids Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer August 20, 2025 5 min read Financial-incentive programs for prospective parents don’t work as a way to reverse falling birth rates, Harvard health experts said on Tuesday about a policy option that has been in the news in recent months. Instead, they said, a mo...| Harvard Gazette
Nation & World Setback in the fight against pediatric HIV Funding cut disrupts Botswana-based effort to help patients control illness without regular treatments Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer August 19, 2025 4 min read Roger Shapiro.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30 percent in some areas of the country in the 1990s. Progress has be...| Harvard Gazette
Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an executive order saying Chicago Police answer to City Hall, not the National Guard.| POLITICO
Kari Lake has repeatedly tried to dismantle the government-backed media outlet.| POLITICO
Breger is a man of ideas—and his ideas are respected in the conservative circles in which he moves. By now, he has been on the job long enough for these qualities to be discovered. The post From the Archives | Marshall Breger and the Worst Job in Washington appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stumbled on questions about Israel on a recent Pod Save America podcast.| Moment Magazine
Lindsey Halligan, who is in charge of overhauling the museum system, would prefer to focus on the future.| The New Republic
An entrance exam would be nice. Nothing difficult, maybe solving a handful of math problems, answering a few U.S. and World History questions, and even responding to some philosophical ones, just to gauge their level of knowledge before they occupy positions of power. To run for President, the requirements are: “No Person except a natural … Continue reading Should We Give an Entrance Exam to People Running for President or Congress?→| Thoughts about leadership, history, and more
Providing support to ICE detainees and family members waiting to see them is just one way American Jews can step up. The post A Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Jewish voters in New Jersey are wondering where the candidates will meet them on issues of importance to the Jewish community. The post After NYC Mayoral Upset, What Kind of Bellwether Will NJ Governor’s Race Be? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
So is it really over? Probably, but it is a messy and costly end. The post The 12-Day War appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The longtime political journalist discusses the increasingly contentious (even for New York) politics surrounding Jewish voters and Zohran Mamdani. The post Q&A | Errol Louis on the NYC Mayoral Race appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
The rest of us must diligently contest the all-too-real nightmare he and his apologists have unleashed. The post Opinion | Freedom for All? Trump Says Forget It appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Today, notwithstanding President Trump’s faltering approval numbers overall, he is rated higher on immigration than on any other issue. The post Good Immigrants, Bad Immigrants appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
If passed, how will the Antisemitism Awareness Act be used to curb harassment of Jewish students?| Moment Magazine
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
Former students, fellows at Harvard Kennedy School share stories about David Gergen.| Harvard Gazette
Study finds Twitter surge starting in 2017, most of it Democratic-leaning by surprising range of firms, with negative effects on stock price.| Harvard Gazette
Nationhood Lab’s director presented the project’s findings on a shared American story in an invited guest essay for The Next Move, democracy advocate and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov’s widely read substack... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday following clashes in recent days between protesters and federal immigration agents.| Global News
Rich Logis was once one of Trump’s most ardent defenders. “MAGA became all-consuming,” he said. But after years of being deeply involved, Logis broke away —| Verdaily
In 2020 I used Jody Baumgartner’s political science model of VP candidate selection to predict Joe Biden’s running mate selection. I wrote: Looking at veep choices since 1960, he found that there are five key factors that tend to predict … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Did the early American colonists intend for America to be a “Christian nation”? Some of them sure did! ... Did the American Founders intend for America not to be a Christian nation, and instead to be secular in its government and politics, with full tolerance for competing religions, Christian or not (or not at all)? Many of them sure did! Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Both classical liberalism and civic republicanism were common during the Founding Era. They sometimes worked together (for example, by agreeing on the need for personal freedom) while sometimes creating tension (for example, what is the purpose of personal free?). Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Democrats very likely win both Georgia Senate seats, resulting in a 50-50 Democratic-Republican balance in the U.S. Senate, with Vice President Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, making Chuck Schumer the very likely new Senate Majority Leader. This means Schumer gets … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
The 2020 Democratic “Veepstakes” is now officially underway. Given that Biden often refers to himself as a “transitional” candidate, his choice of vice president is all the more important given that his running mate will be seen by many as … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
So for those who haven’t still voted in the spring primary presidential election, how are you all thinking about the voting choice? At this point both parties have presumptive nominees and that ver…| Information Knoll
Some of the events drew on the spirit of the Revolutionary War, calling for "no kings" and resistance to tyranny.| Global News
Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer winner writing three-volume Kennedy bio, on what surprised him and what he’d still like to know.| Harvard Gazette
Maine’s Portland Press Herald also spoke with Colin Woodard to get the backstory on why Maine always ranks so high in voter participation| Nationhood Lab
More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community| Nationhood Lab
What does it say about the state of civics in the U.S. if a former U.S. President, and possible future one, has no compunction to lie ever more grotesquely?| The Globalist
More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community| Nationhood Lab
Texas megachurch pastor Landon Schott announced on social media Monday that if someone votes for a Democrat, they are not a Christian.| The Roys Report
Kamala Harris, whose mother was Hindu, and husband is Jewish. is a member of the oldest historically black Baptist church in San Francisco.| The Roys Report
I've been reading a lot of Wendell Berry's and Barbara Kingsolver's views of Appalachia, which sharpened my personal disdain for J.D. Vance. | Adam Isacson
(I think I wrote this in a way to make clear that I don’t want the Biden administration, under any circumstances, to harm asylum seekers’ right to due process and protection at the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead of appealing to morality, however, this post instead emphasizes cold, strategic calculation. Its tone errs on the side of cynicism.)| Adam Isacson
Four months into 2024, migration at the U.S.-Mexico border remains at some of the lowest levels of the Biden administration. And the phenomenon is not limited to Greg Abbott's Texas. | Adam Isacson
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Electric vehicle adoption in the U.S. is still low compared to peers. But, the reasons aren't as clear-cut. They'll certainly surprise you| The Auto Future
