Political science, economics, data science, and environmentalism
And they are completely stupid. Here’s why. If we take the median income by state, the median tax rate by state, and the median rent by state, we can generate a graph of disposable income. We can then graph this and find our nice R squared of 0.11 between Cook Partisan Voting Index and disposable …
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There is a situation brewing in the world where there is a high probability there will be genocide. Do you intervene or not? If you intervene before the genocide starts, you will be accused of a preemptive strike. You will have the burden of proof that the genocide was going to occur. You will be …
I’m researching why New York City’s population has declined over the last few years, and ultimately, I think a lot of it has to do with remote work. Many people moved back to live near their families when they could, yet New York still has one of the highest costs of living in the United …
Any definition of Anti-Semitism, one of the most ancient forms of racism in this world, must include people like bin Laden and Adolf Hitler as being anti-semitic because they were. Still, it also must necessarily exclude people like Hannah Arendt, who, as a Jewish German woman in the 1940s who wrote some of the harshest …
Armenia is sending a delegation to Antalya, Turkey on March 1 to participate in a diplomacy forum, and Macron went to Armenia yesterday as Armenia announced it has frozen its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a paper tiger Russia set up as an “alternative” to NATO but so far has been rather toothless. …
Why does NATO exist? Let’s look at history. In 1800, there were only a handful of democracies in the world. The United States and France, though France, were in decline. The United States had a massive slave population, so by modern standards, the United States was not a democracy. There were no democracies to be …
We are standing at a crossroads where our leaders must decide what future we want. Despotism On the one hand, we can have a future where we might make right. Israel has more weapons than Palestinians, so they have the right to kill them all. Russia has nukes, and Ukraine does not, thanks to Bill …
So I have a dataset that I have curated from public data over the last 7 years and continuously updated with the latest data. I include data focusing on political economics (look at this blog, surprised?) and it includes lots of variables. For this regression, I handpicked the following statistics: pfi 2021 is the Press …
Makes it clear which side Republican states are on. I didn’t like the Wikipedia map of capital punishment because it didn’t include US states and the US has a moratorium on federal executions thanks to Biden.
UK and Germany back a sustainable ceasefire So why can’t the United States? David Cameron is the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. Yes, the same Prime Minister who led Britain into its largest foreign policy debacle since the colonial era. I disagree with David Cameron on most issues. He was a horrible Prime Minister …