America’s reputation as a ‘shining city on a hill’ (deserved or not) is being shredded. This is deeply wrong and collective punishment for all South Sudanese visa holders. Their country is not a democracy and on the brink of civil war.

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

Burma isn’t Rwanda. Chris Milligan unpacks how foreign aid, without deep local understanding, can harm more than help. Context matters. Listen here: insightmyanmar.org/complete-shows… Support: gofund.me/3574c1a8

I don’t think people realize what it means to get a call for your citizenship interview, after years and sometimes decades in the naturalization process. To have this moment be turned into a capture and arrest is the Gestapo entering every realm of legal process.

A bad sign, not just because of what it recalls historically, but for what it promises about the future. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Books, Bombs, and Battlefield Needs: Rethinking Development in Myanmar ift.tt/0CbXQBs

Curious about social media’s algorithms? Join the LSE Southeast Asia for the event “Social media's algorithmic affordances for authoritarian repression in #Myanmar” w/ Dr. Mai Van Tran (Dr. Van Tran) May 7 @ 12:00pm (BST) tinyurl.com/4bjxxtyu

Over the last two years, the Karenni State IEC has been an example for the rest of the anti-2021 coup resistance movement in Myanmar by setting up a functioning governance structure from the bottom up. Read more: english.dvb.no/a-qa-with-kare… #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #karennistate

"Citizens across the world actually have a lot to learn from Syrians," writes Lisa Wedeen. "Their experience of dictatorship and their current effort to build something new...[could give] political judgment and struggles for impartial justice...a chance to flourish."

The imagination of alternate interfaces here is incredible.

We have a cover! 🤩 Every book is built from an alphabet. But what if that alphabet was infinite? After years obsessing over the rules that govern how knowledge grows and decays, I’m thrilled to share with you the cover of my next book: The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of

Engineering is rarely the application of a well-understood theory. Most of the time it's a two-way dialogue, forcing theory to become more robust, more nuanced, or even to be discarded and rebuilt. But sometimes there's no theory at all, just a bag of poorly understood tricks

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

The fragile, aspiration consensus of shared humanity post ww2: A Palestinian life is worth the same as an Israeli life, the same as an American life, a Sudanese life, a Myanmar life. Consensus in this is necessary. Everything else is downstream, debatable.

There will come a day when everyone will have always been against this. Gazans Are Dying of Starvation nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor… via The New York Times

Yes. The real damage, though, is over claims laundering this rhetoric into policy and media discourse. Worse, often these claims are about theory, not the measurement. Vanishly rare for a study to ‘show’ a theory to be generalizably true across a domain.

Beautifully said. Applies equally to international development - it is an engineering discipline.