Rahsaan Maxwell

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Professor of Politics - New York University - diversity, migration, Western Europe (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rmaxwell)

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I think it's pretty clear this source is not an "ally"... What bullying! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.

Lots of gnashing over the USMNT defeat, as such a large country cannot produce winning squads against much smaller countries. But surely that needs to adjust for the fact that US youth sports fragment athletic talent in 100 different directions!

Shouldn't Bloomberg have people who staff who know that it's not Le Pen's party?

Breaking: Le Pen’s far-right party is projected to come first in French vote Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Interesting proposal. I suppose clearer labels not bad, although wonder if people tune out. Also, is anyone really duped when buying junk food. Don't think 'health' is motivation for those purchases! And real principles very easy: buy food w few/simple ingredients. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/o...

Opinion | How to Help Americans Eat Less Junk Foodwww.nytimes.com It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

Funny take. Interesting to hear author claim waiting in line for 1+ hours to buy $24 bagel sandwich makes her feel savvy. I would have thought exact opposite! Especially bc sandwich dilutes bread/bagel experience, and toppings nothing special you can't do yourself www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/o...

Opinion | The Future of Eating Out Is Lining Upwww.nytimes.com Money-strapped millennials, inflation and the tough economics of the restaurant business have birthed a wait-in-line dining culture.

Yes! www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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The Philly Inquirer had a chance to do the funniest thing imaginable, and they went for it.

Another entry. The language gives it away, but the spirit of graffiti courses for kids is still in the Berlin or Brooklyn zone!

New game show segment: Brooklyn or Berlin?

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White Racial Sympathy The left side of Americans' racial attitudes drives support for racially-targeted policies. New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Jennifer Chudy: www.niskanencenter.org/white-racial...

White racial sympathy - Niskanen Centerwww.niskanencenter.org The impact of racial attitudes in American politics isn’t just about the presence or absence of anti-Black prejudice.

"[the EU's] end point [is] the extinction of France, Germany, Italy and the rest of Europe’s historic nations as meaningful political units." C'mon. Yes it's controversial. But word 'historic' doing lots of work! Politics constantly evolve, 'nations' not that old... www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/o...

Opinion | The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t Like It.www.nytimes.com It is looking more and more like a project to universalize the un-universalizable.

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Aside from the details of this house, fascinating story for tracing the history of Harlem as a neighborhood over the past 150 years. So many eras, cities keeps moving. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/r...

The Spectacular Transformation of a Showman’s Mansionwww.nytimes.com The Harlem home of the circus impresario James A. Bailey is being restored, detail by detail, by a couple who are learning the job as they go along.

Aside from the details of this house, fascinating story for tracing the history of Harlem as a neighborhood over the past 150 years. So many eras, cities keeps moving. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/r...

"They say it is not their intention to discriminate against anyone..." Huh? People don't understand their own words. Of course you discriminate w age policy! Side note, discrimination not always bad. It's discernment. Problem is discrimination for wrong reasons! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/d...

No Tables for Anyone Under 30 at This St. Louis-Area Restaurantwww.nytimes.com Customers generally support Bliss Caribbean Restaurant’s ban on male customers under 35 and women under 30. But some legal experts say there may be a problem.

Nothing like the US spin on German culture. I’m sure people all over Bavaria are lining up to ditch their 1-2 euro pretzels for these Meals-disguised-as-snacks. But hey, that’s what we do!

Just now getting exposed to Terrence Howard as a ‘thinker’ and not just as an actor. Unreal! Reminds me of Finnegans Wake with the stream-of-consciousness nonsense. Although I suspect there was a lot more going on with Joyce!

Too many people build philosophies on idiosyncrasies. "Sexual love wants everything...obliterate the distinction between self and other, to uproot reason, to run roughshod..." Huh? Does not sound right. Have sex or not, whatever, no need for such grandiosity. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/o...

Opinion | Give Yourself Permission to Not Have Sexwww.nytimes.com Intentional periods of sexual abstinence can help us better understand the nature of our desire. If we do Dry January, why not Dry Spell July?

Lots of people dunking on this from the left. But presumably he's coming out hard in favor of criminal justice reform, promoting more empathy for people convicted of the worst moment they ever had in their life.

Bill Maher asked: “Does everybody have to live by the worst moment they ever had in their life?”

Bill Maher Vigorously Defends Louis C.K. and Woody Allenwww.thedailybeast.com “Does everybody have to live by the worst moment they ever had in their life?” the “Real Time” host asked.

Strong disagree here. There can be good salads w cheese, but often is the mark of under-confident restaurants trying to jazz up salad with salt/fat. I love cheese as much as next dairy fiend. But I also love gorgeous greens + vegetables, which do not need cheese! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/m...

The Ingredient That Unites My Favorite Saladswww.nytimes.com A good salad can transport you, but the truly great ones all have one thing in common: plenty of cheese.

Question not whether universities can be neutral. Of course not. Nothing is neutral. Problem is that "universities" are not sentient + cannot take positions. Individuals take positions as citizens, but aggregation of those positions is a hell of a challenge! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the Universitywww.nytimes.com The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

If he had been able to hold on and win the second set, maybe Nadal could have built momentum. If....

Nadal is so much more sympathetic now that he’s in swan song phase. Would bet big money that nothing remotely close applies to Djokovic. (And as a Fed fan, it was tough to watch his diminished powers at the end)

At the risk of stereotyping my own community, surely the criminal profile here centers around tennis players! www.westsiderag.com/2024/05/24/p...

Pickleball Vandal Strikes Riverside Park Courts 3 Times; Nets Destroyed, Equipment Scatteredwww.westsiderag.com The Riverside Park pickleball nets after somebody cut them up, rendering them unusable. Photo Credit: Mark Hurst. By Gus Saltonstall

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Just arrived! Official pub date 6/11. Preorder: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Have been watching Sex and the City on Netflix and wow is it bad! Characters, plot, none of it holds up. Only redeeming feature is the shots of Nyc from that era, and reminiscing about running around the city during those years. The past is always nostalgic!

New energy always good. But, must distinguish between those who view bagels as bread, appreciated for inherent qualities, and those who view bagels as yet-another-platform for overly-complicated sandwich. The latter more profitable, can over-charge for toppings. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Are We Living Through a Bagel Renaissance?www.newyorker.com A new wave of shops has made its mark across the country—and shaken New York’s bagel scene out of complacency.

When I taught at UNC we all knew the cameras were there and assumed the university had access to recording/listening if they wanted to. Although I don't think there had been any publicized cases. Kind of crazy, but I doubt UNC is alone in this!

UNC Chapel Hill bureaucrats secretly record professors' classes, without notice or consent, "using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom" to investigate "reports concerning class content and conduct"

Letter says UNC Chapel Hill secretly records professorswww.insidehighered.com A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classe...

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It was mere hours, if not minutes, after Trump accepted the debate with Biden that he and the larger GOP started to panic. No surprise. He's barely holding it together at trial. A debate meltdown is a very real risk. www.salon.com/2024/05/17/n...

Donald Trump is barely holding it together at trial — no wonder Republicans are afraid of a debatewww.salon.com Trump tantrumed and even quit a debate with Joe Biden in 2020, but now he's even more emotionally volatile

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Political scientists: nominate someone (including yourself) who studies Europe for this award (polisky): councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/g...

Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award – Council for European Studiescouncilforeuropeanstudies.org

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CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE? I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNASwww.pnas.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...