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Why Attracting Top Talent Should Come First
If growth advocates can't win this fight, they won't win any harder ones
Oct 12
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Alexander Kustov
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How to Do Fact-Checking Right in the Era of AI
Why every writer should build their own knowledge base to talk to and check against
Oct 8
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Steven Denney
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September 2026
Why Governments Don't Have to Restrict Immigration to Save Democracy
What even the reasonable fear of backlash gets wrong about immigration policy
Sep 21
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Alexander Kustov
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How Australia Already Made Immigration Popular and How to Keep It That Way
Lessons from every Anglosphere government's fumbled migration restart
Sep 8
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Alexander Kustov
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August 2026
Making Sense of the Spanish Exception
Why Europe's top immigrant destination has one of the weakest far-right parties
Aug 24
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Alejandro Iribas
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How to Use AI for Public Engagement
A practical guide for social scientists who want their work to be read
Aug 9
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Alexander Kustov
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July 2026
Reality May Have a Liberal Bias, but the Social Sciences Still Need Conservatives
Or why I was wrong about viewpoint diversity
Jul 29
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Alexander Kustov
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Even In a Liberal Democracy, Some People Need to Be Deported
Due process lacks legitimacy when losing never has consequences
Jul 16
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Alexander Kustov
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Why US Nationalism is Essential after 250 Years
How I learned to love my country, and the future of Popular by Design
Jul 3
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Alexander Kustov
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June 2026
Should Local Governments Pick Their Own Immigrants?
What Canada's provinces figured out about matching immigration to need
Jun 29
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Aubrey Westfall
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Why Evidence-based Policymaking Is Overrated
From parachutes and drugs to asylum bans, and the virtue of honest judgment
Jun 25
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Alexander Kustov
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How Canada (Un)made My Thinking on Immigration
A year after "In Our Interest," the book’s favorite case became its hardest test.
Jun 9
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Alexander Kustov
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