Will Wilkinson  Verified account

@willwilkinson

Niskanen Center VP for Research, New York Times contributing opinion writer, Vox columnist 🏙️

Iowa City / Washington, DC
Joined March 2007

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    My latest at "Socialism" is hot b/c folks want safety nets & unrigged markets, but the GOP offers neither and can't see the difference between AOC's democratic socialism & Elizabeth Warren's market-friendly social democracy. They're doomed.

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  2. History did not end, says Richard V. Reeves, but in the assumption that it would, liberals lost their edge

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  3. 3 hours ago

    "Well, not a majority exactly ... more like a strategically located minority ... reinforced by highly selective enforcement of the voting laws ... but you know what I mean."

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  4. Historically Republican, that is. I don't think it's quite right to treat this as evidence that partisanship-correlated amenities preferences are weak. I see it as evidence that Democrat-correlated preferences for density are becoming prohibitively expensive to satisfy.

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  5. I think they're finding a muted effect of partisan sorting on amenities preferences largely because extremely high and rising costs in urban cores is pushing dispositional liberals into historically suburbs.

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  7. "voters appear to be sorting on non-political neighborhood attributes that covary w/partisan preferences rather than explicitly seeking politically congruent neighbors... We conclude that location must have some influence on political preference, rather than the other way around"

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  8. Oct 21

    Do refugees increase crime in the areas around where they are resettled? Nah. No. Nope. Negative. No siree. Evidence from the U.S.: "Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?" 🇺🇸 🗽🛂

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  9. 9 hours ago

    "The State of the : Factbook 2018" is now out | New indicators on the region from via

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  10. Oct 21

    1/With people freaking out about the Honduran migrant caravan now forcing its way through Mexico, I figured it might be time for a thread about Central American immigration.

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  11. Oct 18

    more and more people are turning to sparkling water to deliver the bubbles that still water simply can't - or won't

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  12. Oct 21

    It's crazy how reporting on violent crime rates rarely distinguishes btwn stranger & non-stranger crime. If you're wondering if it's safe to walk around some neighborhood, you care about P(I am assaulted by a stranger). That's very different from the overall violent crime rate.

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  13. I’ve written a lot of stories abt Steve King, but this is the craziest one yet tbh. That his GOP colleagues don’t publicly call for him to resign, or try to expel or censure him, or even just denounce him, says everything you need to know abt the GOP.

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  14. When the president is making up fake riots, it's because he wants a pretext for a real police-state crackdown. This guy's the real deal. Don't let yourself become so inured to his unceasing bullshit that you're lulled into complacency.

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  15. Oct 20

    So the supposed economic payoff from dealing with a murderer is a mirage. Why does Trump keep talking about it? Unfortunately, the answer is obvious: he likes autocrats who murder journalists, and is looking for excuses to stay friendly with them 5/

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  16. Oct 20

    I hate the pseudo-sophisticated, cut-rate Talleyrand, “Oh, can you believe how ineptly and poorly-executed the Saudi coverup is?” The problem isn’t the quality of the coverup. The problem isn’t even the fact of a coverup. The problem is murder.

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  18. Oct 20

    Does no one remember that the myth of King Midas is a cautionary tale? He nearly starves to death, accidentally kills his daughter, and ends up with donkey's ears due to his arrogance.

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  19. Oct 19

    Saudi Arabia has beheaded more journalists this year than ISIS

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  20. Oct 19

    This is why Republican lawmakers feared doing healthcare townhalls.

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  21. Oct 20

    I study racial and ethnic politics - but I know the least about Native and Indigenous people, who were -never-taught in any of my undergrad or grad classes. Trying to fix that ASAP.

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