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Fantastic paper in the Journal of Political Economy JPE titled "Of Cities and Slums" by Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Luciene Torres de Mello Pereira journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

This story seems way underreported. nypost.com/2025/04/24/wor…

New graffiti aimed at Americans coming for sex tourism in Medellin just dropped. h/t Santiago Tobón

.@WHCA President Eugene Daniels: "We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient and sometimes we think we know everything...What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of people. What we are not is the enemy of the state."

"Bad medicine: Why different systems of organized crime demand different solutions" This is such a fascinating analysis by Chris Blattman, examining locally-specific drivers of violence. He does not credit the state or politicians with a major role in Colombia's decline in violence.

Dovile Sakaliene, Lithuania’s defence minister, was said to have told her counterparts: “Russia has 800,000 [troops]. Let me tell you this, if we can’t even raise 64,000 that doesn’t look weak — it is weak.”

This is a picture of my kid flying a kite. Make a prediction to yourself: can o3 figure out what beach this was taken on, just from this picture with no metadata?

I'm happy to announce one of the biggest policy victories of this administration. It's been weeks in the making, but it's finally here: ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS CANNOT PAYWALL NIH-FUNDED RESEARCH ANY LONGER.

PSA: To board domestic US flights starting May 7, 2025, you'll need a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or state ID, or a passport. This PSA has nothing to do with a family member who has 2 passports + a drivers license that are all either expired or invalid on eve of a trip.

Chris Blattman "TSA currently accepts expired ID up to two years after expiration, for the above listed forms of identification." tsa.gov/travel/securit…

America's adversaries now have wide-open running room to lure disgruntled former federal workers poorly treated by DOGE. Haste is laying waste to security priorities. It's not the goal you pursue, but how you pursue it that matters greatly. 4 minutes of truth here:

God really sent us a Pope who Posts.

Well, he voted in Republican primaries and is outspoken on social against Trump and Vance. Chicago background and time in Spanish-speaking countries means I’m doubling down on this being the greatest Saul Bellow character that never was.

World War 2, Korean War, first Gulf War, Camp David Accords, Dayton Agreement, Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, campaign against al-Qaida, anti-piracy efforts in Red Sea and Indian Ocean...

A common fallacy is to focus only on the failures. There are some obvious ones. But in addition to this list I would say ppl should consider Haiti 1994, Bosnia 1995, Kosovo 1999, Liberia 2003,

This looks like a must-read! "Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path" by Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf "Even allowing for substantial uncertainty regarding projections, current US fiscal policies are almost certainly unsustainable. Therefore, policymakers must

I think I am a plumber who’s really just doing it all for the pornography

If Roman Abramovich shows up in Istanbul, this will be a sign that negotiations might lead to a serious cease-fire. Lavrov and Ushakov are Putin's envoys with no agency of their own. They'll just repeat Putin's boilerplate mantras. Abramovich's involvement is in no way a

My main takeaway here is to question Ipsos’ sampling approach

This African countries group chat was very spicy. Even the presidents mentioned laughed as they watched it