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Minnesota: A turning point to stop Trump

Daron Acemoglu — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:34:05 +0000

The Trump administration’s “flood the zone” strategy can make it difficult to see when a turning point occurs in the United States’ slide into authoritarianism. Some might say this is an objective of the strategy, which is built on gradual encroachments on people’s rights and institutional checks. But the killing of two U.S. citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis this month may just be that turning point.

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What anti-Trumpism is missing

Daron Acemoglu — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:23:04 +0000

These are unique and troubling times for the United States. A twice-impeached former president who now faces four separate indictments for serious crimes is the de facto leader of one of the two main political parties. Having remade the Republican Party in his image, Donald Trump will almost certainly be its nominee in the 2024 presidential election, despite mounting evidence of his financial misdeeds and role in an attempted coup. While Democrats fared well in various elections this month, polls show Trump leading US President Joe Biden in key battleground states. Clearly, something is rotten in the American Republic.

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The Hollywood writers’ AI fight is everyone’s fight

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Austin Lentsch — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:57:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence is big business’s new flavor of the month. Companies are rushing to showcase how they will be using new generative AI models, and the media is full of stories about the technology’s transformative potential. There is no denying that it could significantly increase productivity. But who stands to benefit? The ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike may offer an answer.

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