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Lately we have heard numerous incidents that travelers are harassed by federal agents for hours at the U.S. border.
The horror stories make many of us feel so uncomfortable that we stop ALL international travels.
Stop border harassments!
The practice is too rampant.
UNCIVIL!
Government has many ways to gather information. For example, Government can detain your devices at the U.S. boarder, with neither warrant nor probable cause.
Government detained Gang Chen’s devices at Boston Logan Airport on 22 January 2020.
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Happy to share a new working paper w/ @Apoorva__Lal @lockhartm @zu_gary: bit.ly/replicateiv We replicated >60 papers using IV strategies published in APSR, AJPS, and JOP and find troubling patterns of weaker IVs, wrong inference, and failure of exclusion restrictions.
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And now Columbia too… seems like it’s only a matter of time before the great majority of the so-called T14 pull out. To be clear, I don’t mind rankings. I do, however, mind rankings that so thoroughly dominate an academic field that they actually distort institutional behavior.
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To study Chinese politics, a pressing issue is knowing the emperor. What is emperor? How did emperorship work as an institution? How did he work with prime ministers, grand secretaries, and grand councilors? An empire perspective is indispensable. Here, I offer key readings. 1/
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"The authors here face a real problem: in order to dismiss Deng, they need to claim that the potential for growth already existed under Mao; but they cannot credit Mao for that potential because they criticize all of his policies. Thus, somehow, that potential has to be
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Video of a Russian truck targeted by Ukraine. Possibly from a mine.
t.me/mysiagin/7900
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni | Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty | NG6316 | National Gallery, London nationalgallery.org.uk/paint…
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This is your captain. I’ve no flying experience or qualifications but boundless confidence in my ability. No need to fasten your seat belts.
#LSEwealth just when Q&As started heat up and u really wanted to pee... Great presentation by Avent.
#CorbynWins And thus begins again Labour's periodical turn to the left. @TheEconomist is right. Things look gloomily similar to early 20th.
