Mackenzie Lockhart
@lockhartm
Postdoc @ISPSYale, Political Science PhD @UCSD, studying elections and voters. Occasional runner. Vancouver born and raised. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 he/him
I’m excited to share a guest essay co-authored with @Jacob_S_Hacker which was published today with the @nytimes, as well as two reports we published at @equitablegrowth on Republican’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…
Important to note people used to buy houses to live in, not as investment vehicles. This thread is missing the whole point here.
But first, a little history. The American residential real estate market used to be pretty simple. I invest in my house, hoping the market goes up and when it is time to sell, I sell it for a profit. Homes were huge purchases. The biggest most people made.
Excited that our (@Apoorva__Lal, @xuyiqing, @zu_gary) paper won the Political Analysis' 2024 Editor's Choice award! It was really a lot of work (we started this in 2018!), so nice to see we've had some impact on the field. It's also open access. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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.
You can get better return rates in the bond market. Don’t fall for this kind of nonsense.
If you want free money, you can go over to Polymarket and vote against people who are literally ineligible to become President being the winners of the 2028 election.
Noticed more spam texts lately? AI might be the reason. Senior policy analyst @guslockhart spoke with CTV News about how artificial intelligence is making spam messages more convincing. ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artic…
I love how the Tour de France describes some riders as sprinters, even though they need to ride 21 stages of over 100 miles each in a month. That’s no sprint!
nyc: are we dating the same guy? sf: ARE WE HIRING THE SAME GUY???
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
Questions about how the “war powers” work in practice? Check out my piece in @apsrjournal. TL;DR President is far more constrained by Congress that usually realized.
Just published on APSR First View: War and Responsibility by M. PATRICK HULME (@mphulme ) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Just published on APSR First View: War and Responsibility by M. PATRICK HULME (@mphulme ) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
I’d wager the people best able to differentiate AI from non-AI generated content are those who use it most.
Sure, but delays also substantially decrease trust in elections. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39411092/ A state with a $320B+ budget should be able to handle these costs in order to ensure trust in elections!