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**POST-DOC OPPORTUNITY** We are hiring a 2-year post-doc at Chapman in the economics of religion. Recent PhDs studying religion from any social science discipline should apply! Application deadline: 24 Jan 2025 For more: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

U.S. states with more state capacity had better Covid-19 outcomes.

Here's a provocative new paper "Confronting the New Gatekeepers of Experimental Political Science" doi.org/10.33774/apsa-…

"Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza"  amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

The human rights organization Amnesty International just released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

🐾Chapman University Professor Hannah M Ridge's (Political Science) latest book, Contours of Israeli Politics: Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy, looks at the socio-political effects of ethnic prejudices within the Jewish community in Israel. 🐾l8r.it/dvgl🐾

In boasting about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Biden says the deal being implemented is same one he proposed back in May. If so, imagine the thousands of people whose lives could have been saved if he had led as one would expect a superpower leader to do, ending war back in May.

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Using European Social Survey data, this study shows that people (*even "secular" people*) have different opinions on issues like women's rights and immigration during holidays

I'm joining 13 of my colleagues to demand that the Trump Administration immediately releases Mahmoud Khalil. Their illegal actions set a dangerous precedent. We cannot allow them to shred our constitutional rights to free speech and due process. Free Mahmoud Khalil.

Where is this headline in Western media?

On the anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I'm again reposting the anti-war ad in the The New York Times that I co-organized with 2 colleagues and which was signed by 33 IR scholars: "War in Iraq Is NOT in America's National Interest." Huge, avoidable disaster for the ME and world order.

🚨Out today in PNAS PNASNews🚨 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)? We analyze 100k estimates to find out🧵👇

We're tracking international student visa revocations across the country, follow our data updates here: insidehighered.com/news/global/in… for Inside Higher Ed

Yes, Trump's approval numbers are falling. But they must collapse much faster to outpace his potential death blows to American democracy. My country is racing towards a competitive authoritarian regime type. Unless we slow this collapse we'll be there well before the midterms.

“Independent of whether one regards the legal threshold for genocide as met, the plan would violate the Genocide Convention’s prohibition on ‘deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about [a group’s] physical destruction in whole or part,’” said Nancy Okail.

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

It is not just Democrats who are souring on Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. So are many Republicans. The main question is when Trump will catch up. x.com/ShibleyTelhami…