Brendan Nyhan

Extremely relevant today - our new report on the state of the rule of law in America brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... Most notably, 91% of legal experts say Trump's DOJ provides favors or benefits to his allies, including 56% of legal conservatives. Findings thread below; please read & share.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

WTF is this? Normalizing authoritarianism repression as an electoral strategy www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

The search for a satisfying monocausal explanation of a major social trend rarely leads to good policy or good science

Remember this? What Trump is doing is much worse for capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law. Important piece www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...

Not now, mysterious space debris

Data > vibes and counting stats www.sbnation.com/nba/1121556/...

Law/business schools are going to pivot much faster - because they are consumer-driven and have direct employer outcomes at stake - than undergraduate instruction, where the payers are third parties and the linkages are weaker. But every institution should be doing this. Crazy how passive they are.

"describing... in starkly similar terms"