LSE USAPP blog

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Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of @LSE_US.

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Joined July 2013

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LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 10 m

What Trump’s tariffs will do to the US economy blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/?p=5…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. No matter how President Donald Trump frames it, the US has much to lose from a trade war. Global trade dynamics will likely be radically reshaped. Fabio Sabatini discusses the economic costs for the...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 37 m

The Take It Down Act shows the fragmentation of policies addressing deepfakes and generative AI writes Lauro Accioly Filho blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. The law is an example of the US government’s piecemeal approach to regulating the potential negative uses of AI.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 2 h

When voters think about congressional elections, they increasingly think first about the president write Jamie Carson of @universityofga @joelasievert of @TtuPoliSci and @ryan_dane of @UWyonews blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Voters now evaluate candidates in the context of how they feel about whoever is in the White House.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 14 h

Long Read – Hudson Meadwell of @mcgillu writes that Trump’s trash talk about tariffs shows his grandiose magical thinking blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Rather than thinking of Trump’s rhetoric and rapid policy changes as chaos and confusion, we should recognise they are a sign of Trump’s magical thinking.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 15 h

Under the banner of “protecting girls”, anti-transgender legislation continues to progress in state legislatures write Amber Lusvardi of @uwoshkosh and Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson of @SFU blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. This framing casts transgender people as a threat to safety and the social order and reaffirms patriarchal gender norms.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 16 h

Book Review | Taming Silicon Valley blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/?p=5…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus examines the growing influence of AI, controlled by profit-driven Big Tech companies, on society and the dangers of AI’s unchecked development. Marcus's insights...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 17 h

Is Starbucks’ reversal of automation the new game in town? blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Starbucks thought it was streamlining drink-making and reducing labour costs when it introduced an automated system in 2022. Three years and many disappointed customers later, the system is being...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 19 h

Elon Musk’s removal from the Trump administration potentially marks a shift in power among the ideologies that wield influence within the White House writes @nickanstead of @MediaLSE blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. One way of understanding the end of the Trump-Musk relationship is through their differing politics.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 20 h

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LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 22 h

Violence near police officers’ homes makes them more likely to use force against Black civilians find Samuel Thomas Donahue of @harvard and @gerardtorrats of @ColumbiaSoc blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Not only officers’ workplace conditions influence their likelihood of using violence: neighborhood conditions matter too.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · 23 h

White people in the US South led the mid-20th century increase in pro-punishment attitudes finds Adriane Fresh of @dukeU blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. 1960s America saw increasingly pro-punishment attitudes among whites. In new research, Adriane Fresh finds that much of this ‘punitive turn’ among whites can be linked to Black Americans’ expanded...

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LSE Phelan US Centre@LSE_US · Jul 24

@NikKalyanpur (@LSEIRDept) writes for @LSEUSAblog that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s recent falling out is an unusual example of a president taking on one of their former corporate backers. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 24

Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ claims to deliver growth but may deepen inequality writes Sagartirtha Chakraborty of @CottonUniversi1 blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. The bill promises sweeping tax cuts, welfare reforms, and immigration crackdowns under the guise of a populist policy agenda.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 24

In new research, Doug Rice, Jesse Rhodes, @TatisheNteta, and @AdamEichen of @UMassAmherst find that the American public continues to support diversity, equity, and inclusion policies blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. A plurality of Americans oppose ending federal DEI policies in education, employment, and housing.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 24

What IR can teach the UK about how to handle Trump blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/?p=5…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. The UK's foreign policy, national security and economy remains vulnerable to the Trump administration's turn away from its traditional European allies. But, Gustav Meibauer and Gesine Weber argue...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 23

Book Review | Chokepoints blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/?p=5…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Chokepoints by Edward Fishman explores how the US leverages control over financial, technological, and maritime infrastructure through invisible "chokepoints" to increase its global power. Though...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 23

After years of calling for an end to forever wars, Trump’s Iran strikes are splitting his supporters over America’s role in the world writes @ChrisFeatherst4 of @uniyorkpolitics blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. Trump’s strikes are a challenge for his administration’s foreign policy narratives.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 23

Jim Rice writes on what Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine means for the West, democracy and freedom blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. The public spat is representative of how Trump’s new presidential administration has all but abandoned Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 23

Jim Rice writes that the Trump administration is using an act from 1798 to undermine the rule of law blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. In March, as part of his new administration’s wide-ranging immigration policies, President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to justify the deportation of immigrants without due...

LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog · Jul 23

An important source of declassified materials for scholars of American diplomacy is now under threat writes Mitchell Lerner of @ohiostate blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025…

LSEUSAblog's tweet card. The move is an assault on both government accountability and basic historical truth.