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Read this korrent: The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.
The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
8 Sept 2026
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Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-09-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony. — tap to centre the map on it
The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
14 Sept 2026
DD
Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Trump administration is defined by hostility to expertise and has silenced or purged people who know things across agencies. — tap to centre the map on it
The Trump administration is defined by hostility to expertise and has silenced or purged people who know things across agencies.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
8 Sept 2026
PK
Paul Krugman — holds since 2026-09-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Trump-Musk government's approach descends from a Silicon Valley ideology that prizes frictionless technology built by elite engineers over messy human institutions. — tap to centre the map on it
The Trump-Musk government's approach descends from a Silicon Valley ideology that prizes frictionless technology built by elite engineers over messy human institutions.
Last stated 2 years ago
28 Feb 2025
KC
Kyle Chayka — holds since 2025-02-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies. — tap to centre the map on it
The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
8 Sept 2026
PW
Peter Woit — holds since 2026-09-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A conspiracy theory can be used as a pretext to dismantle government programs and target researchers and citizens. — tap to centre the map on it
A conspiracy theory can be used as a pretext to dismantle government programs and target researchers and citizens.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
4 Sept 2026
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Anne Applebaum — holds since 2026-09-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing. — tap to centre the map on it
A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.
Last stated 8 months ago
22 Jan 2026
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Orin Kerr — holds since 2026-01-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment. — tap to centre the map on it
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated a month ago
31 Aug 2026
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Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A leader too impatient to sustain a waiting game will undermine strategies built on economic pressure and waiting out an adversary. — tap to centre the map on it
A leader too impatient to sustain a waiting game will undermine strategies built on economic pressure and waiting out an adversary.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
9 Sept 2026
DD
Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A minority party can peel off enough opposition-party votes to pass impeachment articles despite being outnumbered. — tap to centre the map on it
A minority party can peel off enough opposition-party votes to pass impeachment articles despite being outnumbered.
Last stated 4 months ago
22 May 2026
JB
Josh Barro — holds since 2026-05-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI is transforming U.S. politics and has inspired more hate across a wider political spectrum than any other technology — tap to centre the map on it
AI is transforming U.S. politics and has inspired more hate across a wider political spectrum than any other technology
Last stated 3 weeks ago
15 Sept 2026
PK
Paul Krugman — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Americans are not, as a routine matter, cut off from the financial system for their politics. — tap to centre the map on it
Americans are not, as a routine matter, cut off from the financial system for their politics.
Last stated 2 years ago
9 Dec 2024
PM
Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2024-12-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Around the time liberalism gave way to progressivism, people on the left started being wrong about a ton of stuff, with Democrats falling from being right about roughly 85% of things in 2010 to about 30% and Republicans at about 15%. — tap to centre the map on it
Around the time liberalism gave way to progressivism, people on the left started being wrong about a ton of stuff, with Democrats falling from being right about roughly 85% of things in 2010 to about 30% and Republicans at about 15%.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
16 Sept 2026
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Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-16 — tap for who they are
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