assistant prof, political science @Yale. American political institutions, everything Executive Branch, SOP. running, soccer, raising the next gen.
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Joined February 2018
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Excited that my article "Control Without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments" is now available on @apsrjournal First View! Great way to celebrate President's Day! Check it out at: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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This is true. Here is the @nytimes story from Oct. 2025: nytimes.com/2025/10/09/techn…
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NEW: The House may impeach Pete Hegseth this week. But Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have to send the articles to the Senate.
How Rs could sidestep an immediate trial and kick the matter to the next, Democratic-led Congress.
w/ @Reporter_Mia
politico.com/live-updates/20…
When Congress has impeached officers and removed them, its only been judges. No Cabinet or other PAS appointees. Now Hegseth on the line again for the 3rd time this Congress, but now from a GOP MoC... this could get interesting.
Since 1900, the House has impeached just 1 Cabinet Secretary, DHS Sec Alejandro Mayorkas, by a 214–213 vote on 2/13/2024. But the Senate ended the case on points of order without reaching a verdict.
Before him, the last was Sec of War William Belknap in 1876 who resigned the same day the House voted, and then Senate acquitted him.
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Google is using its search monopoly to coerce schools into adopting AI. This highlights the danger of allowing an unregulated monopolist to control an essential service.
Multiple courts have found Google liable for violating antitrust laws, and this latest move shows it remains unchastened.
As the public increasingly pushes back against the use of AI in schools, Google is making clear it will punish those who don’t fall in line.
Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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On election night @cantstopkevin @jeremiahbcha and I + others will be entering all congress/gov final results at the CD/state-level into a spreadsheet that anyone can download on Wed morning.
Data will come with incumbency and 1990-2024 results for comparison
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was 45 mins late to preside over today’s pro forma session of the Senate. Lee has railed against the Senate’s pro forma sessions (set up during recesses) in recent months, arguing they’re preventing the passage of the SAVE America Act. Lee vowed earlier this year to block the pro forma schedule for a scheduled recess, but didn’t follow through.
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Join Alan Gerber, @thekinane, @j_kalla, and @ZacharyDonnini for a conversation about the 2026 midterm election. 11/10 from 7:30 to 8:30 PM. We will analyze the data, discuss the composition of the 120th Congress, preview agenda items, and more. Register at bit.ly/3VxbT61
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ALT Alan Gerber, Josh Kalla, Christina Kinane, and Zacharcy Donnini with the U.S. Capitol in the background and text: Yale ISPS Webinar: 20226 Midterm Elections; What Have We Learned & What Comes Next?
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This is really something ...
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What makes protests successful can also fail to bring about political victories.
Here's the paradox of Africa’s ‘leaderless’ Gen Z protests.
goodauthority.org/news/the-p…
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It’s kind of funny that political scientists need to be reminded that actually describing how politics works is a useful endeavor, but here we are
Real banger here. We often treat descriptive analysis as a petty chore you need go through to get to the real (causal) stuff. Gerring argues that not only is good description crucial, it’s arguably the greater challenge. Deciding how to characterize things appropriately can be more consequential and difficult than establishing that X is related to Y in a particular way. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…
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We're about at the point where Senators ask nominees the ultimate trick question:
"Could President Trump create a rock so heavy that President Trump could not lift it?"
a not small number of women in their 40s I know are the experiencing the new SAHM: husband who's job now has them in another city during the week but they have kid(s), dog(s), a full-time demanding career, and a 120% mental load.
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25 years ago, I was a sophomore in high school in the south bay of LA and the only daughter to a single mom, a United Airlines flight attendant.
I was getting ready for school when my mom screamed from her bedroom that I would not be going to school.
I was so fortunate to be able to be raised by a flight attendant. I got to see the world from a very young age because I would just pack a bag and jump on a plane with her.
I also knew that every time she left on a trip, there was a small chance she might not come home, but we'd say I love you and we had so many contingency plans for what to do if that happened. it felt so unnecessary.
at 16, on that september day, was the first time I ever truly wished my mom never flew again.