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Noah Nathan

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Political scientist @MIT nlnathan.mit.edu

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Sarah Brierley @sarahbrierley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks to @voxdev.bsky.social for chatting with me about the findings of my new book, The Co-opted State. For those who teach on corruption and governance, I hope this podcast might be useful for students.
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is amazing! Well done @npr.org! apps.npr.org/west-africa-...
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In West Africa, one road could change a continent — and the world
A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.
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mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The American Political Science Assoc has recognized @kathleenthelen.bsky.social, Erik Lin-Greenberg, @arielrwhite.bsky.social, Andrea Campbell, Jerik Cruz,@gskulski.bsky.social,Angie Jo & Ye Zhang for outstanding books, articles, & papers.@mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social polisci.mit.edu
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Newly released in paperback, @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social, and @dryan149.bsky.social's “Somebody Should Do Something” provides a novel approach to creating transformative social change—and the ways that each of us can help make a difference: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...
A photo of the book "Somebody Should Do Something" against a plain white background.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/07/2026
The US Administration just restricted the duration of student visas. What's the problem? Now political appointees have full discretion to block most international students from staying after graduation. They've promised to use their new power to do just that. My new @piie.com post explains—>
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A new US rule to restrict student visas will hurt the US economy
The Trump administration issued a final rule in July that gives it discretion to cut short the course of study of most international students at US universities. It will likely use this new power to b...
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu
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Paige Bollen
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu
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Paige Bollen
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/06/2026
Ghana’s 14 arrests in 16 months linked to false news have raised concerns about free speech.
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Arrests of critics in Ghana spark alarm over free speech under Mahama
Ghana's 14 arrests in 16 months linked to false news have raised concerns about free speech.
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YND...
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Sonny Rollins - You Don't Know What Love Is (Official Audio)
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Having gone through adjustment of status, I can tell you that this is just absolutely insane. It is yet another attempt to leave ordinary Americans worse off for no reason other than making life harder for (legal, not that it should matter) immigrants. Yet another national shame and disgrace.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/05/2026
MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.
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A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth
YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance" "A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble."
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Aditya Dasgupta @adasgupta.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This would have been useful to for anyone who imagined that a bombing campaign would result the spontaneous collapse of the Iranian regime to read
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
People need to understand how bad, how devastating, how unjustified Israel’s bombardment of Beirut is — it’s not just yet another of the strikes that have become routinized. Catastrophic civilian harm and human suffering that simply must not be shrugged off as normal and forgotten. Stop the madness.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026
All of this was very foreseeable but lots of people spent the election prosecuting their precious factional disputes rather than rallying to prevent a fascist from taking office and so here we are.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today, April 7, is Kwibuka32, the commemoration of the 32d anniversary of the first full day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. Past US presidents marked the date with stock statements of “never again.” Today the president instead echoed the language & threats of the perpetrators.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Impeach Trump.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” The president is openly threatening genocide. I don’t think it’s a stretch to wonder if he’s depraved enough to order a nuclear strike. The consequences of that would be existential, for everyone on the planet. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Issues Grave Threats as Hormuz Deadline Draws Closer
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Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Great articulation of my main worry about AI use among researchers (including myself!) Among current students, a hugely beneficial trait will be the ability to force oneself to sometimes do hard stuff on their own to really understand it even when AI is faster. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
From our FirstView articles: A Precolonial Paradox? Rethinking Political Centralization and Its Legacies by MARTHA WILFAHRT. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Deadline for submission to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) at Harvard is March 27. Please apply! @nlnathan.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @piaraffler.bsky.social @scrosenzweig.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social Link: forms.gle/7R9PkFWEZTc6...
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Horrific. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
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U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Listening to Bobi Wine on BBC speaking about fleeing Uganda, it strikes me how much the recent attack on international human rights led by Trump has empowered dictators like Museveni to act with impunity. Wine was attacked and intimidated before, but now they feel free to try to kill him,
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Bobi Wine: Ugandan opposition leader goes abroad after two months in hiding
Uganda's military chief has said Bobi Wine is wanted "dead or alive", although some ministers have denied he is being sought.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The quiet part being illuminated: there have been very few new awards from NIH this fiscal year, for some very specific reasons 🆘 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Delays in awards and funding calls worry NIH-funded researchers
Many programs may be pushed into the next fiscal year, and some could face funding gaps
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Who knows if AI will replace us. But I'm feeling pretty confident its about to overwhelm us in an absolute tsunami of crap research...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 03/03/2026
This is the part about the Gen AI revolution that gives me great pause. This is a real example: compare two PDFs, text only, tell me if one copied the other. Claude Code *cannot do it* What level of task do you trust without verification?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
going to keep saying: to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
www.ft.com/content/84ea... The former African minister in ICE detention
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The former African minister in ICE detention
Federal agency says Ghana’s Kenneth Ofori-Atta overstayed his visa but lawyers accuse US of aiding ‘political’ extradition request
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Demanding Idi Amin-level sychophany will destroy our military and bureaucratic capacity for generations to come.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The United States has just begun a massive, open-ended war — and nobody knows why
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you still believe a word that comes out of this man’s mouth I have a plot of land on Jupiter I would like to sell you that could be great for onion farming.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Have had this same thought for months. The Thom Tillises of the world, who clearly seem to think poorly of a lot of Trump's most extreme behaviors, can go out quietly, retire into complete anonymity, and be lost permanently to America's historical memory by February 1 2027. Or...
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Have had this same thought for months now. The Thom Tillises of the world, who clearly seem to think poorly of a lot of Trump's most extreme behaviors, can go out quietly, retire into complete anonymity, and be lost permanently to America's historical memory by February 1 2027. Or...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is also true of the universities, law firms, and media orgs that settled with Trump. They gave away their integrity and their rights—and got what in return? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...
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They Did Deals With Trump to Get Lower Tariffs. Now They Are Stuck.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
People still somehow naively laugh off Trump's claims as bluster. But the Miller CNN interview is as clear as can be. They've backed themselves into a corner where they'll probably now think they can't not attack Greenland, to avoid looking like capitulating to their critics. It's completely insane.
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So important. Peace Is Unraveling www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
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Opinion | Peace Is Unraveling
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I know it was funny for people to laugh about "TACO" a few months ago... but we actually really *do* want him to chicken out on most of this stuff. Sheesh. In a government where all policy is ego and preening and performative dominance displays, giving him an off ramp to chicken out is a good thing.
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As I can recall, the "policy planning process" is a) in first term, Trump makes stray offhand, uninformed remark about Greenland; b) people laugh at him about; c) defensive to the slights, he post hoc decides he meant it; d) sycophants race to tell him its genius; e) now its policy... ... RIP NATO??
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Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
People still somehow naively laugh off Trump's claims as bluster. But the Miller CNN interview is as clear as can be. They've backed themselves into a corner where they'll probably now think they can't not attack Greenland, to avoid looking like capitulating to their critics. It's completely insane.
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