For the very first paper I handed in at university, I got a C+ and the prof wrote in red ink "You write like shit. Get help." Paperback of my latest book w/ @SlaterPolitics @PrincetonUPress now out.

Vanity fuels autocrats, and there isn't enough room for two of them. How long before King Trump throws Musk under the bus or to the wolves? #Trump #ElonMusk

"Apartheid has fallen, we die right next to each other now. It's just the living part we still have to work out." Picked-up this Booker Prize winning novel in Cape Town. Just finished reading it. Humanity, grace, family, tragedy, epic, spare and seamless writing.

Elon Musk and his @DOGE army / tech bro youth brigade are the 21st century SA Brownshirts. #ElonMusk #Trump #Fascism

Where is the resistance?

Trump is going too far. Beyond the bounds of civility. Alienating the so-called elites #Trump despises. The very talent who in part makes America great. And who will eventually leave. And come to places like #Canada. Welcome.

East Asia. Economic miracle, democratic miracle, and I argue, a welfare state miracle. Download for free, until Feb 12, my latest book on social policy in East Asia, from @CambridgeUP @CUP_PoliSci #japan #taiwan #korea #Asia

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Serious Q to American political scientists: how does the current (and ongoing) slew of #Trump executive orders compare with past presidencies, both in terms of the # of EOs and scope? Appreciate some empirical data on this. @APSAtweets @dziblatt @JeffreyKopstein #polisci

Shock notwithstanding, but is there a world in which #Mavs coach Kidd actually (secretly) prefers a defensive stalwart in #AnthonyDavis over #LukaDoncic to win a championship? Defense wins titles, right? #NBA @william_lou @steven_lebron

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Again, someone needs to correct the Trumpaganda - the US $45bn trade deficit with Canada is not a subsidy. The actual truth is that Americans buy more from Canada than Canadians do from America. #tariffs #Trump

Just accessed our health system for routine medical tests. Bloodwork, ECG, X-ray. Just had to show my #health card, all free. Reminder of how good we have it in #Canada, not having to ask - as I did when I lived in the US - "does my insurance cover this?" #HealthcareForAll

The Luka for AD trade is inexplicably bad. But I still think the Vince Carter trade in 2004 from the Raptors for some hockey tape and a bag of donuts (including one who never showed up) is worse. @hellowelcomepod @william_lou @steven_lebron #LukaDoncic #MavsTwitter #Lakers

@michaelgrange Great story. Weaving a bunch of stories of the game and of the moment together.

Trump's America First plan includes putting tariffs on imports from the US' three largest trading partners thereby raising prices on most things for American consumers. #TrumpTariffs

Yeye (grandpa) and his lunar new year bandits. #ChineseNewYear2025 #hotpot #family

Tariffs and #Canada 101: #tariffs hurt Canadian producers. But if we buy more Canadian-made goods, and do that longer than American consumers can take inflated prices, then #Trump will lose support, and by bringing down the tariffs, lose face as well. Which would be awesome.

Tariffs 101: #tariffs increase the price of imports. So unless American producers can replace those goods at a cheaper price, Americans will pay higher prices for the same goods. #Inflation #TrumpTariffs.

An ode to my generation: “Everyone in the 90s was just going out and getting trolleyed all the time. There’s a kind of excitement to that, because it is harder for young people to do that now." #90s #britpop #GenX #slackers

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