📣 New #FirstView Notes from the Field 📝
In "USAID Bureau on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance", @mlkrook.bsky.social interviews Julie Denham, Rebecca Gordon, and other members of the gender team at DRG.
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gendersky polisky
My Callais take: we should view the politics behind this decision through the "colorblind" lens - a backlash frame palatable to normal people. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
John Muller
I'm thoroughly jaded about this world cup, but the Mexican anthem at Azteca has me wobbling a bit.
Pretty delighted with how Fargo voted for mayor (bonus that he's an NSDU polisci grad): www.facebook.com/share/v/1DBC...
The Voting Rights Act acknowledged what needed to happen for American democracy to flourish.
New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...
Politics & Gender
New book on democracy. #OpenAccess Seven Myths about Democracy by Jørgen Møller & Svend-Erik Skaaning, Routledge taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon.... Challenges (full or partial) misunderstandings about the meaning, trajectory, causes, and consequences of democracy.
Matt Scherer on what I've been telling journalists for some time now: one of the biggest AI harms that we are staring down is the popping of the AI bubble, and the attentive harms we'll be seeing for working class folks.
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Julia Azari
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon.
Read: www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
github.com
Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambiawww.rightscon.org
This timely book challenges seven widespread misconceptions about democracy that continue to shape public and academic debates about its past, present, and
