Scientists identify victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in mass gravewapo.st Scientists have identified a victim of the Tulsa massacre whose remains were found in a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery, Tulsa’s mayor announced Friday.
Lindsay P Cohn
Political Scientist/Assoc Prof @ USNWC (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl law
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Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...
The American public are skeptical of using the military to respond to domestic disruptions, though views differ by party affiliationblogs.lse.ac.uk When we consider how US military force is used, we tend to think of this in the context of operations overseas. But what does the US public think about using the military domestically? In new resea…
The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity
What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches
Criminal charges in GOP’s fake elector scandal reach new heightswww.msnbc.com The Republicans' fake elector scandal from 2020 has now racked up indictment totals unseen since Watergate and Iran-Contra.
Broadband Internet Access, Economic Growth, and Wellbeingwww.nber.org Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
Inflexible Return-to-Work Policies will Hurt Public Sector Capacitydonmoynihan.substack.com A new Romney-Manchin bill would shrink the federal hiring pool
Official US Navy Special Forces page draws backlash for ringing in Pride month: 'Navy SEALs have gone woke'www.foxnews.com The Facebook account for Navy Special Warfare celebrated the beginning of "pride month," causing backlash on social media.
100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfathertheconversation.com More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous Black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.
President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Middle Eastwww.youtube.com The White House
The obscure federal intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine rightapple.news Every American knows what the CIA is. I would guess that maybe 1 in 1,000 have ever heard of INR — the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, American diplomats’ in-house intelligence...
Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schoolsapple.news In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore ...
I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Coredoi.org I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Help: Public Perceptions of Coercive State Power
People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Themwww.techdirt.com Last month the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill published a major story on how GM collects driver behavior data then sells access (through LexisNexis) to insurance companies, which will then jack…