The Alex Nowrasteh
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NEW: 9th circuit panel holds that Trump birthright citizenship EO is unconstitutional, sets up appeal to SCOTUS on the merits storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Selection, not treatment.
Another quietly subversive paper. Urbanists are often young and childless — this is a unique demographic most interested in city centers Even in Copenhagen, people move to the city when young, but move out to suburbs when they get married/have kids, and don't move back
Another quietly subversive paper. Urbanists are often young and childless — this is a unique demographic most interested in city centers Even in Copenhagen, people move to the city when young, but move out to suburbs when they get married/have kids, and don't move back
Nice paper and a theme of SI Urban so far: people don't like density, will pay to get away from it. Graph shows home price changes as you cross the line into a neighborhood with a higher minimum lot size. 1/
Do measures of mental illness include all the deeply unusual pathologies that exist on the modern right? Or are they just concentrated on those that affect left-wingers?
Admin reveal:
There are far more repugnant repugnant conclusions in philosophy than the Repugnant Conclusion.
Reminder that the incarceration rate for white native-born Americans is 10x higher than for Pakistani immigrants, according to 2023 US data.
Immigration restrictions are anti-meritocratic.
If you are laying off Americans, you should be ineligible for H-1B visas
I grew up in a strong community with many opportunities for in-person socializing with the normal, pleasant people around me as a result, I was desperately lonely until I found all the weird people like me online. my social life has been exceptionally good since
everybody's in the replies like "but i found all my communities and friends with social media!!" sure but the counterfactual isn't u being isolated, it's returning to the era where irl socializing was common and easy and ur best friend was some guy u met in a park
The nativist hatred for Indians is the most baffling prejudice I've ever encountered. Really makes you think that maybe your progressive friend's simple model of nativism is correct.
anti-indian racism is the purest form of racism I’ve ever seen. we speak english, we immigrate legally, we follow rules, we don't commit terrorism, we're smart and even competing in level playing field. people just don't like us because we're brown and have different accent
I had to ask ChatGPT what the headline meant. The oped is worse than the headline, somehow. Teaching microeconomics as it’s been taught for years is better than a class about the popular fly-by-night empirical papers of the moment. Or natecon.
How economics teaching became the Aeroflot of ideas ft.com/content/9aabb4… via @ft
LA traffic at 5:19 pm, during rush hour. I thought DHS already deported the U.S. to abundance?
Look at the covered wagon. It’s hard to post an old American painting about our heritage that doesn’t include a reference to migration. And it’s not like DHS isn’t trying!
A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast
If a baby cries in a waymo and nobody is there to hear it, was it ever really sad?
IMPORTANT: The Trump admin initially wanted to pretend that Mr. Abrego Garcia was an "MS-13 leader." Now a FOURTH federal judge has found that the evidence doesn't show even that he's a MEMBER of the gang — and that's after the Trump admin spent months looking for new evidence.
Judge Crenshaw on the allegations of MS-13 membership: "[F]or the court to find that Abrego is a member of or in affiliation with MS-13, it would have to make so many inferences from the Government's proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful."
Svetlana Mojsov, Yugoslavian immigrant who moved to America and discovered the glucagon-like peptide-1 and uncovered its role in glucose metabolism and the secretion of insulin. Her breakthroughs were part of the base from which Novo Nordisk created Ozempic.