From the AP: Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions.The crackdown, announced Sept.… Continue reading

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: The internal civil war puts the newly minted Trump Ticket — the three Georgia statewide candidates endorsed by the former president — in a strange spot. Do they agree with Trump’s assessment of Kemp,… Continue reading

From Political Wire: “Republicans spent tens of millions of dollars in 2020 to keep Democrats from painting more of Texas blue. Now, the GOP is trying to fireproof its districts with a new map that contains the suburban damage… Continue reading

I’ll be guest blogging this week (and started yesterday). I’ll have a few things to say about what the recent German election and the Democratic Party have in common, after I get posts out this morning collecting recent stories on… Continue reading

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I have this piece over at the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy‘s new online supplement, Per Curiam. It tracks testimony I gave before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee this summer. It argues that the… Continue reading

I’m a big fan of Iceland, which has one of the richest political and literary histories in the West. So this story from the Washington Post caught my eye: Iceland heralded a weekend election result that would have made it… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she wasn’t bluffing when warning that progressives were willing to tank the infrastructure plan until the House and the Senate also pass a $3.5… Continue reading