Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار
saadgulzar.bsky.social
Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار
@saadgulzar.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, Global Affairs, and Economics (concurrent) at Notre Dame. Study representation, development, and the environment with a focus on South Asia.
http://saadgulzar.com/
Very well said
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
findmypollsite.vote.nyc
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
on.ft.com/4ovCLwn Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments

Maguire… wrote that… Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.”
Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Mamdani
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
on.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What's the book/article on to read on the farmers' movement 2020-21 in India?
October 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Very interesting spillover effects into other domains and within families! Congratulations!!
🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just posted a new review paper I co-authored with @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social. It is prepared for the Annual Review of Political Science. Comments welcome!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixtd6...
October 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

🧵1/4
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Przeworski says it cleanly, clearly, and convincingly.

What then must we do?

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If the eggs in the egg sandwich are not from Japan, this is going to fail!
Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.

As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
adaptationatlas.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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UN official says Israel's "deliberate shooting" of the single building where a fertility clinic was "immediately reminded me of the Rwanda genocide where I was a judge and where they ripped the bellies of pregnant women, pulled out the fetuses because they wanted to kill off the entire Tutsi group."
Remarkably blunt words from United Nations officials who just declared Israel is committing genocide:

"Gaza will be with me for the rest of my life."

"Netanyahu, like everything he says, is simply lying."

"The treatment of children, the amputation without anesthetic…That will haunt me forever."
BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.
zeteo.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."
'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers
They're pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration.
www.politico.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
RF Kuang's new book's synopsis
September 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers!

@antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟

We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:
Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast
Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic related to climate change politics (and adjacent areas, e.g. environmental and energy pol...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Excited and honored that “Creating Partisans” has won the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for its contributions to research on pol. organizations and parties from @apsa.bsky.social! Many thanks to the committee & everyone who helped improve the book! @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🏆 Big congratulations to @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social (LSE)!
Winner of the 2025 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America 👏👏👏
Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm)
#APSA25
September 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.
September 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM