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Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.

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Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections Tim Frye’s talk, based on his new book Workplace Politics, uncovers how state-dependent bosses mobilize workers at the ballot box—and why this...

i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...

02.03.2026 14:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections Tim Frye’s talk, based on his new book Workplace Politics, uncovers how state-dependent bosses mobilize workers at the ballot box—and why this...

i will be speaking Tuesday, March 3 at 4:00 at the Jordan Center. You can watch on zoom or in person by registering below. jordanrussiacenter.org/events/workp...

02.03.2026 14:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MAR 3 @ 4 PM - Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections

Looking forward to this event on Tuesday. mailchi.mp/nyu/mattocks...

24.02.2026 21:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soon the city will descend into anarchy.

22.02.2026 23:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now I know that the blizzard is an emergency. Door dash has suspended services.

22.02.2026 23:57 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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maybe these two stories could have been one story. NYT with a not so subtle choice of article placement.

18.02.2026 14:56 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy in Crisis: A Harriman Magazine Panel Please join magazine authors Timothy Frye and Thomas Kent and editor-in-chief Ann Cooper for a panel discussion of soft power and democracy promotion in the region – its history and what happens now t...

Looking forward to taking part in this event at noon today at Harriman to launch the new issue of our magazine. Virtual access still available. I also include a link below to my article. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr...

harriman.columbia.edu/reflections-...

17.02.2026 13:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Georgian Restaurants Are Suddenly Everywhere in New York What was once a hard-to-find cuisine is now booming across the city, thanks to a new generation of chefs

just another reason to love NYC. ny.eater.com/dining-out-i...

15.02.2026 18:37 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

14.02.2026 13:35 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Democracy in Crisis: A Harriman Magazine Panel Please join magazine authors Timothy Frye and Thomas Kent and editor-in-chief Ann Cooper for a panel discussion of soft power and democracy promotion in the region – its history and what happens now t...

Looking forward to taking part in this event on February 17 at noon both online and in person. It launches our articles in the newest Harriman Institute magazine. harriman.columbia.edu/event/democr...

13.02.2026 12:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

07.02.2026 17:57 👍 239 🔁 93 💬 6 📌 0
[LIVESTREAM] The Stakes in Ukraine: Present and Future Join Ambassador Bonnafont, General Cavoli, and Timothy Frye for a panel on what is at stake in Ukraine’s present and future.

Looking forward to taking part in this event on Thursday at noon. www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream...

01.02.2026 21:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amount of time network evening newscasts devoted to reporting on today’s protests and general strike in MN (not including coverage ICE actions or their attempts to spin)

ABC: 45 seconds
NBC: 20 seconds
CBS: 15 seconds
PBS: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

24.01.2026 06:26 👍 489 🔁 204 💬 11 📌 22
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

22.01.2026 19:51 👍 1532 🔁 395 💬 118 📌 272

This seems important

21.01.2026 22:46 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Lovely to see the outpouring of love for Kimuli, whose presence is so very missed. I’m adding here the “in memoriam” colleagues wrote for the department (a bit more personal than the one from the university!)

polisci.columbia.edu/content/memo...

13.01.2026 23:12 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.

12.01.2026 12:07 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.

11.01.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Wall Street Journal - Breaking News, Business, Financial & Economic News, World News and Video Breaking news and analysis from the U.S. and around the world at WSJ.com. Politics, Economics, Markets, Life & Arts, and in-depth reporting.

Did I miss something or did today's WSJ not even mention the 5th anniversary of the January 6h insurrection?
www.wsj.com

06.01.2026 21:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Maybe those Mercator Maps were not such a good idea after all.

06.01.2026 13:26 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Five years since the January 6th insurrection and a reminder that in the moment many Republicans and Trump voters were appalled, but many also were not.

06.01.2026 13:08 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?

04.01.2026 19:39 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Opinion | Justice in Venezuela The next challenge is setting the country up for long-term success.

I've been down on the WP for a while now and this Editorial Board piece is exactly why. The argument is shallower than a kiddie pool. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

03.01.2026 19:56 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Not Somali.

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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”

Read that again.

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Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

26.12.2025 15:21 👍 1526 🔁 374 💬 30 📌 15

You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!

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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

22.12.2025 15:41 👍 3052 🔁 1604 💬 120 📌 215
Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff's foreign meetings. Longtime allies in

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months?

Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA?

But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis.

Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

20.12.2025 14:36 👍 873 🔁 463 💬 38 📌 32

Make America Gullible Again!

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