Pippa Norris
@PippaN15
Political scientist at Harvard for three decades, Vice President of the World Values Survey, & founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
An important message re the numbers behind Trump's immigration policies.....so far. It will all get worse, of course, given recent GOP funding stoking the flames. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Some are...See HKS-Munk. nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/…
Mad thought of the day: Harvard should relocate to Canada. It’s only 300 miles to Montreal! Up yours, MAGA!
District courts are ruling against Trump administration, but not the Supreme Court data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-supreme-…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Some 78 public radio organizations and 37 TV organizations are at risk of going dark as a result of the cuts Trump pushed through Congress, from major cities to far-flung towns like Unalakleet, Alaska, and Pendleton, Ore. @elenalingshao @BenMullin nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Lee: He's a Lib Dem MP. Electoral reform has been their policy since at least David Steel in the 1970s. Of course.
Some British MPs are seriously raising a move to proportional representation. Nice.
The partisan confidence gap in US universities has long been evident, but it expanded in recent years, prior to the most recent attacks.
Confidence in higher education is rising again (likely thermostatically in response to attacks), but with remaining concern more concentrated on politics & less on costs news.gallup.com/poll/692519/pu…
Oh this is interesting: America's loss is the UK university gain. Students vote with their feet. ft.com/content/c07464…
A useful synopsis of what ails American democracy. But no explanation is offered, still less remedies. We need to ask harder questions. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" waste, fraud, etc: it costs $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.
If Trump defeats Harvard, America loses: "...the fight between the Trump administration and Harvard is something more: It has become a test for the president’s ability to impose his political agenda on all 2,600 universities in the United States. " nytimes.com/interactive/20…
For diversity to science to foreign policy, Trump has moved aggressively to reopen long-settled issues and dismantle long-established institutions. At times, it seems like he's trying to repeal much of the 20th century. nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…
For diversity to science to foreign policy, Trump has moved aggressively to reopen long-settled issues and dismantle long-established institutions. At times, it seems like he's trying to repeal much of the 20th century. nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…
When did Superman get all woke and shit?! Oh, right. In the 1940s. (This poster is often mislabeled as being from the 1950s. It was created in 1949.)
Why would Trump cancel the midterm elections when he and the GOP will simply try to manipulate them with legal technicalities so that they retain control? Malpractices are the standard name of the game in electoral democracies and electoral autocracies.
If you are worried that Trump will cancel the midterm elections, just do the math: 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats all EXPIRE on 1/3/27, so ordering the 11/3/26 elections not to take place would sentence the HOUSE to DEATH. It would also strip 35 States (including swing…
Despite receiving $10.2 million in federal aid from the Biden administration that could have funded a flood warning system, Kerr County officials diverted most of the money to law enforcement projects. The decision — influenced by local opposition to Biden-era funds and mistrust…
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Kristi Noam: “...if Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will.” Oh, right! Like cancelling student visas in the midst of their studies, slashing PhD research in public health, and withdrawing federal funding for student aid. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/…
The latest Trump xenophobic swipe against Harvard's international students. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…
The latest Trump xenophobic swipe against Harvard's international students. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…
