Jennifer N. Victor

Perhaps an unpopular opinion but I see this as a dangerous slippery slope. Sure the Left has "good intentions" for protecting democracy behind CA redistricting, but violations of the rule of law are democracy breaking, not reinforcing, no matter their source. Bad idea. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

If this reporting is correct---2.5 million Israelis protesting--that represents more than a quarter (25%) of the population of the country. In protest. Incredible. Israel is the size of New Jersey, both in land mass and population.

To be clear, he is advocating for kids to GET MORE SHOTS. Because kids and their parents famously love going to get 💉💉💉💉.

Well then it's a good thing that presidential executive orders do not have authority to change the vaccine schedule and probably the newspapers should report it that way.

Election forecasts ask what share of the electorate will vote in November. They rarely ask who is still in the pool by Election Day. A new guest post at @misofact.bsky.social misofact.substack.com/p/the-2026-m...

Unscientific observation from recent travels: Europeans are more clear-eyed about America’s fall into authoritarianism than Americans are. Much more.

Political science conventional wisdom update: presidents have meager control of the economy CONDITIONAL on presidents heeding rule of law and existing institutional constraints.

People will focus on the insanity of the president wanting to unjustly imprison a citizen in order to save face, but a much bigger deal is the president’s rhetoric that delegitimizes the official fundraising organization for his opposition party.

Revising the public historical record is textbook authoritarianism—creative resistance using modern tech is how we persevere.

Journal editors are relentless, poor dears.

I know what you’re thinking —but this is not an article about running ERGMs.

Go Sen. Booker! [checks name plate 🧐] Rule of Law is crumbling. Call it out, every time. Demand better.