Thank you @ricksteves.bsky.social for showing light in these dark times!

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.

Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

The potential benefits of migration are not identical everywhere.

This remarkable new resource from @niskanencenter.bsky.social maps the US counties where the economic benefits of immigration might be highest —>

www.niskanencenter.org/mapping-amer...

OCTOBER 29: Senators Tim Kaine & Rand Paul join us for a bipartisan conversation on Congress's role in the trade war.
Info & register:

College seniors and their econ profs: @brookings.edu Economic Studies has posted openings for research assistants to begin early summer 2026. Great job. Good people to work with (including me) careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3711/re...

Economists have extensively studied the effects of mass deportation on labor market opportunities for US natives.

Mass deportation under the Obama Administration *reduced* job opportunities for natives on net, by reducing overall business activity.

I review the research here—>

Because of a health issue, an Irish tourist overstayed his tourist visa by a few days. He was imprisoned for 100 days and banned from the US for a decade.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.

Is there no end to our shameful behavior?

www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

Migration policy goes far beyond "more" (of the same) or "less" (of the same). It's about "how"—shaped by policy.

In 2012 I proposed a new channel for high-skill migration without 'brain drain'

An update on one such program. New from powerhouse @helen-dempster.bsky.social et al at @cgdev.org —>

We launched a new segment: The Professor Is In. I step back from the daily news and *teach* about the economic forces that are shaping our lives.

First up: What's the difference between trade talks, trade deals, and trade agreements—and how do they actually work?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTT1...

Pub day for Strangers in the Land! Woke up to this lovely @nytimes.com review. "In an evenhanded style that yields neither a woke polemic nor a sanitized past, he traces the lives of immigrants to a country that actively drew them in and then tried to push them out." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

My debate with Dani Rodrik about tariffs and free trade

“Honestly, we just want peace,” said one migrant Gest spoke with. “I don’t care what we do. I just want honest work.”

By my brilliant @georgemasonu.bsky.social colleague Justin Gest in @theatlantic.com —>

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

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Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation

Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB

Education Sciences Act of 2002

Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

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