Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards…... https://politicalsciencenow.com/congratulations-to-the-2026-apsa-award-winners/

Congratulations to the 2026 American Political Science Association (APSA) Award Winners

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 APSA Awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts. DISSERTATION AWARDS…

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The Department of Political Science at Fordham University will be hiring two Assistant Professors this fall: one in Judicial Politics and one in Comparative Urban Politics. Both positions will be at Fordham's Rose Hill location in The Bronx.

Two new book reviews are out in Political Theory: Christian Marks reviews Power in the Anthropocene by Lars Tønder.

Also out in Political Theory, Sungmoon Kim's terrific state of the field essay on Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges.

Vol. 53 (3) of Political Theory is now available!

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🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

Here's a round-up of book reviews recently published in Political Theory: Loren Goldman reviews Gary Wilder's Concrete Utopianism.

Book Review: Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity, by Gary Wilder - Loren Goldman, 2026

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Hackers have compromised Canvas, the learninge management system used to teache college courses. The hackeres have made the system slow, inefficient, unresponsyve, and yn manye cases ympossible to use. Studentes and Professors so far have not noticed any difference.

On the occasion of the centenary of Michel Foucault's birth, IMEC is hosting an immersive doctoral conference at the Abbaye d’Ardenne in Caen from September 23–25, 2026. Proposals of max. 2,500 characters must be submitted by June 1, 2026.

Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault (2026)

Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 23 au 25 septembre 2026 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen, IMEC Soumissions avant le 1er juin 2026 Appel à communications/ Pour…

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There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

There is no such thing as the history of science

People on the internet are arguing about what ‘science’ means and what properly belongs to the ‘history of science’. (Aparna Nair’s thread on Bluesky is a good introdu…

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🚨🚨🚨A slew of new book reviews and review essay in Political Theory 🚨🚨🚨 First up, David Froomkin reviews The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power by Richard Primus

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I’m late to post this, but here is my latest in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social #PublicVoices #TheOpEdProject

The Epstein Files, Foucault, and the Game of Power: Why Taking Down Elites Won't Solve the Problem

The Epstein files are spelling trouble for elites everywhere. The 3.5 million emails released recently by the Department of Justice concerning Jeffrey Epstein tell a tale of powerful men, and some wom...

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How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

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Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

🚨 Deadline extended 🚨 #ecprprizes 🏅 Honour the best work in #PoliticalTheory with our £450 🏆 Political Theory Prize 📖 Nomination must be the author's debut book in political theory & published in 2024 or 2025 ⌛ Deadline: Fri 30 Jan

Political Theory Prize

Deadline: Friday 30 January

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Ok then.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 7mo ago

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.” Details in our story. thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE

The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.

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🚨🚨🚨 Hot off the press: a slew of new book reviews in Political Theory. 🚨🚨🚨 First up, @enzoreds.bsky.social takes on three new booksby Fabienne Peter, Matthias Brinkmann, and Thomas Fossen in a terrific review essay on legitimacy.

What Is the Point of Legitimacy? - Enzo Rossi, 2025

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New from me in the Chicago Tribune: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Thatcher.

Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Margaret Thatcher

In the midst of economic crisis, Margaret Thatcher was able to generate popular support for economic policies that hurt most British people.

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📢 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #ECPRPrizes 🏆 2026 Political Theory Prize Honour the best recent book by a first-time writer in #PoliticalTheory 💰 £450 fund 💡 Must be an ECPR Member affiliate to nominate ⏳ 9 Jan buff.ly/1FHPpmr Jury: @diapopescusarry.bsky.social @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social

Political Theory Prize

Deadline: Friday 9 January 2026

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“By right”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/USpomvn

How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim? - The American Prospect

The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing with the information all this time?

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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Durbin is not taking phone calls but you can email him here: www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email

Email | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois

The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin

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My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams

Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...

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My latest in The Opinion Pages on the political function of lies. theopinionpages.com/2025/11/the-...

The sad consistency of a lying world order | The Opinion Pages

“I think one of the greatest terms I’ve ever come up with is fake news,” President Donald J. Trump said in his recent 60 Minute interview with CBS News host Laura O’Donnell. Fake news is indeed a grea...

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The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

Turns out voters respond to a vision that’s more than just “not the other guy.”

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

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