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Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva are back in the U.S.: What this historic prisoner swap with Russia tells us about U.S. diplomacy.
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AJPS study: Groups make significantly higher initial assessments of adversary resolve than individuals do, but also update their beliefs less after receiving new info. In small groups, first impressions play a stronger role in shaping beliefs than any signals—costly or otherwise—that come afterwards
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POP study: There is no systematic relationship between federalism and democratic backsliding. Federalism only serves as a bulwark against autocratic threats posed by national rulers under a limited set of conditions.
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IO study: The President's Daily Briefs during Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford were rife with racial tropes. Entries about foreign developments in places with racialized others are more likely to infantilize, invoke animal-based analogies, or imply irrationality or belligerence.
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