tim frye
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.
- Looking forward to taking part in this event on Thursday at noon. www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream...
- Reposted by tim fryeAmount 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
- Reposted by tim fryeAmazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by tim fryeLovely 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...
- Thanks for posting. Looks interesting and will read with interest. Glad to see academic posts like this on Bluesky.
- This pretty damning. Hard to see how faculty will take his leadership seriously.
- Did I miss something or did today's WSJ not even mention the 5th anniversary of the January 6h insurrection? www.wsj.com
- 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.
- If kidnapping a country’s leader doesn’t count as an act of war, then what does?
- 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...
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- Reposted by tim fryeBREAKING: 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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- Reposted by tim fryeThe 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.
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- Such a shortsighted decision at a moment of international turbulence. These centers are needed now more than ever.
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- Come work with us. A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ukrainian Studies and another for an open position at the Harriman Institute. Deadline January 5. harriman.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...
- Hard agree with Kotkin here www.foreignaffairs.com/china/weakne... and if you want more detail on the Russia case, See my book, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia www.amazon.com/Weak-Strongm...
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- A ray of hope on an otherwise bleak weekend.
- We recently published a special issue societal resilience in Ukraine with a focus on local and regional governance. Take a look. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpsa20/4...
- The world is a less interesting place with the passing of Kimuli Kasara. She was brilliant, funny, and caring. And was loved by many. She was a great friend and confidante. We will all miss her terribly. Rest in peace. fas.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
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- yes it is clever.
- Man, 2025 has been rough.
- Looking forward to this event today. Better in person but a recording will also be made available. sofheyman.org/events/celeb...
- Proud to serve on the Advisory Council of the new Kennan Institute which launched yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
- Look forward to hosting this event tomorrow with Alexis Lerner at the Harriman Institute. Register today to attend. harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-t...
- Looking forward to discussing our new book with John Huber, Jessica Pisano @awhf.bsky.social @pagefortna.bsky.social on Friday, Nov. 14th at 12:15. The event is both in person and on zoom. Hope you can make it. harriman.columbia.edu/event/celebr...
- Tyler Glasnow and the oompah loompahs have the same barber.
- Reposted by tim fryeThis graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...
- As signing bonuses decline; regions will likely increase coercion to meet draft quotas and this too will be unpopular.
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- New article on Russian foreign policy and international law and order from Joakim Bratvoll. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Interesting take here from Mikhail Troitskiy on elite politics in Russia prior to the full scale invasion of Ukraine. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Looking forward to hosting this talk on Thursday at noon. Interesting work from Masaaki Higashijima. Register at this link. harriman.columbia.edu/event/electe...
- Reposted by tim fryeDutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
- Reposted by tim fryethis rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
- Reposted by tim fryeI thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
- University leaders need to keep pushing back on the "everyone hates higher ed" fallacy. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
- So many echoes from this article for US politics....
- Looking forward to commenting on this paper.
- It is a very nice paper that I assign in my classes
- Today at 5:00 on zoom and in person. Tune in if you can. harriman.columbia.edu/event/10-yea...
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- Are the espn tennis announcers paid by the word?
- Agreed. Last night I tried to come up with a list of players that would make me root for Djokovic and it was a struggle.
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- Reposted by tim fryeFew charts show our current American weakness like this one. The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
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- These are not concessions. They are objectives that have not been met being framed as concessions. Like me saying it is a concession when I shoot a layup rather than dunking a basketball.
- "Uneasy Mix?" Seriously NYT? This is lawfare in a particularly pure form and straight from the autocratic playbook.
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- Look forward to reading and - more importantly for you - to assigning it to my large lecture class on autocracy and democracy in the spring. Congratulations.
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- How do Americans view support for US aid to Ukraine? Here is some research from a survey I did in September 2023. A bit dated, but these attitudes have been pretty stable over time.
- As we reflect on today's events in Alaska, consider this document signed by Putin in 2003. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
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- Very happy to announce the publication of Workplace Politics, with @szakonyi.bsky.social and Ora John Reuter. Drawing on data from 8 countries with a deep-dive on Russia, we examine when, why, and how politicians and employers pressure their workers to vote in elections. academic.oup.com/book/60445
- Data from Argentina, Indonesia, Georgia, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, and the US indicates that workplace mobilization is common, often coercive, and very unpopular with voters. We also find that it is mostly likely to occur in sectors dependent on the state and in slack labor markets.
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- Reposted by tim fryeGallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
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- Reposted by tim fryeThe Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
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- Thanks. Very useful.
- What did the US get in return? Why now? What did Kremlin do to earn this? So many questions.
