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Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser met while working together at The Washington Post. While they spent long hours together in the newsroom investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal, they didn't realize they lived on the same block until a colleague pointed out the coincidence. Today, Baker—who famously doesn't vote for the sake of objectivity—covers the White House for the New York Times, and Glasser writes on Washington for The New Yorker. The now-married couple joined David to discuss what they learned about democracy in their four years based in Russia, finishing their first joint book while Glasser was in labor and how much Washington has changed since the time of James Baker, a political player and power broker who served most notably as President George H.W. Bush's secretary of state. James Baker is the subject of the pair's latest book, The Man Who Ran Washington.
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A chance meeting with his Congressman during a high school football banquet set Tim Ryan on a path to politics, from a seat in the Ohio Senate, to two decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, to a bid for U.S. Senate in 2022. He joined David to talk about growing up in working class Ohio and how the Democrats lost touch with blue-collar America, the state of the federal government and the need for reform, the House of Representatives under Rep. Kevin McCarthy's leadership, and what his own political future holds.
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The 2023 edition of the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) took place in Prague, 4-8 September. The section of our ECPR Standing Group Knowledge Politics and Policies included nine panels on politics and policy of academic mobility and diplomacy, universities, higher and vocational education, research, and Artificial Intelligence. This year […]
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The 2023 edition of the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) took place in Prague, 4-8 September. The section of our ECPR Standing Group Knowledge Politics and Policies included nine panels on politics and policy of academic mobility and diplomacy, universities, higher and vocational education, research, and Artificial Intelligence. This year […]
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Last month, the first endorsed workshop by the ECPR Standing Group Knowledge Politics and Policies unfolded at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Lüneburg (Germany). The workshop with the theme "The Politics and Policies of Skills Shortage" brought together thirteen scholars from across Europe who are working on the issue of skills shortage from different disciplinary angles.
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Alina Felder Last month, the first endorsed workshop by the ECPR Standing Group Knowledge Politics and Policies unfolded at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Lüneburg (Germany). The workshop with the theme "The Politics and Policies of Skills Shortage" brought together thirteen scholars from across Europe who are working on the issue of skills […]
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This is not, in fact, about the politicians. This is about the level below, that permanent state of the civil service:The government has been accused of "staggering incompetence" after new school buildings it commissioned had to be closed due to safety fears, while others under construction were demolished before they even opened.Main buildings at two secondary schools and a primary school in England, which were all completed relatively recently using a modular, off-site construction method, were told to close with immediate effect, disrupting the start of the new term for many pupils.A government minister admitted there were issues with the structural integrity of some buildings, prompting fears they would not be able to withstand extreme events, including severe weather or being hit by a vehicle.Those Rolls Royce minds knowing best from Whitehall. Well, no, they don't. Clearly they don't. Which poses a problem. A problem for anyone who desires an invasive and managing state that is. The problem being that we've simply not got the staff to be able to have such. All the people who actually know things, how to do things, are off knowing and doing things. Leaving a cadre of adminstrators who, umm, administrate. And, as we can see, being able to file Form C in the C shaped slot is not an aid to being able to get a school built by a competent builder.Therefore, and obviously, that state, manned by incompetents, should not be managing or even administrating the building of schools. Nor anything else complicated beyond the idea of getting out of bed in the morning. This is not a theoretical nor ideological position it's merely the result of observation. The British state is incompetent. Therefore we should ask the British state, heck, allow the British state to do the minimal amount necessary to keep civilisation on track. That would mean that night watchman state which does only - and really only - those things that both have to be done and can only be done by government. Maybe defence - which they've not been good at these recent decades - and making sure the bins get taken out. Wouldn't want to tax the skill level too much after all.That this does neatly match up with our own ideological convictions is both true and fun. And yet an administrative state that allows schools to be built out of dodgy concrete and people want it to be planning how we're going to compete with the seven billion nine hundred and 30 million odd people who are not British? Not subject to such expert knowledge? We going to sell them JCBs after we've sold them the school building method or something?No, really, there are people insisting that these same minds - the ones who can't get concrete, a 2,000 year old technology, sorted - should determine what's the next mineral to be mined, the energy system of the future and who should make, how, the next generation of microchips but three.Getting rid of the civil service would be impossible, C Northcoate proved that. But we can sever their relationship with the real world easily enough. Leave them filing C in C and B in B and leave the rest of us to get on with life productively. Simply kill the requirement for anything to need civil service approval or oversight. They'll still be happy with their paperwork and we'll be amazed at how much better life gets. That argument, that is, for free markets and liberty is that the opposite, government control, is incompetent. We are in a reverse version of that movie Idiocracy. So, let's stop doing that then and be free - and vastly more important, let's be rich by being free. Anyone gets to do anything subject only to the basic Common Law rules of no harm, no foul, and leave government to pleasure itself with paperwork. Works for us.

It was particular joy to meet again in person at the General Conference of the European Consortium of Politics Research (ECPR) last week 22-26 August. After two years of virtual conferences due to Covid, this time the ECPR General Conference took place in the beautiful city of Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps. It brought together […]
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Rep. Joe Neguse first became interested in politics at a young age, inspired by his immigrant parents' lesson to give back to the country that had welcomed them from Eritrea. He joined student government and got elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents while still in law school. But the second-term congressman reached national prominence as an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, delivering deft and emotional arguments on behalf of House Democrats. Rep. Neguse joined David to talk about his personal connection to immigration legislation, his experiences on January 6 and throughout the impeachment process, and why he believes voting rights might force filibuster reform.
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Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch are the co-founders of Fusion GPS, the private research firm behind the Steele "Trump-Russia" dossier. Simpson and Fritsch join David to discuss their joint roots as Wall Street Journal reporters, how the research skills they developed as journalists translated to careers in private investigative work, how they met Christopher Steele and the formulation of the Steele Dossier, and what they learned about Donald Trump following a private investigation of then-candidate Trump.

Their new book, Crime in Progress, takes readers inside the firm's four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump's Russia ties—culminating in what became known as the Steele dossier.
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Susan Glasser is a preeminent political journalist with nearly three decades of reporting experience spanning foreign policy, domestic politics, and war correspondence. She joins David to talk about her experience as co-chief of the Washington Post's Moscow bureau under the auspices of the early Putin regime; what she gleaned from conducting the first interview Vladimir Putin granted to American correspondents in 2001, and how authoritarian qualities endemic to Putin's Russia undergird aspects of American politics today.
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Inga Ulnicane These days Artificial Intelligence (AI) is high on international political agenda. US President Biden has just issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy AI. G7 leaders have agreed on Guiding Principles and a Code of Conduct on Artificial Intelligence. The UK is hosting the first global AI Safety Summit. However, not […]
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Inga Ulnicane These days Artificial Intelligence (AI) is high on international political agenda. US President Biden has just issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy AI. G7 leaders have agreed on Guiding Principles and a Code of Conduct on Artificial Intelligence. The UK is hosting the first global AI Safety Summit. However, not […]
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When David Chalian was in first grade, he memorized the names of all the US presidents—in reverse chronological order. His interest in politics was second only to his love of theater. Chalian later found the intersection of his two passions as a journalist covering the larger-than-life characters and intricate storylines in politics. Now the political director at CNN, and host of the CNN Political Briefing podcast, Chalian joined David to talk about losing his father at a young age, how working for playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith inspired his career in political journalism, the challenges of covering the 2016 Trump campaign and presidency, and the political climate today—and what it means for Biden, Trump, and the 2022 midterms.
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Former HHS Secretary Tom Price on his path to politics and healthcare in America.
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