has there ever been a more desperate man?
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Teach, research, and write about African politics & pandemics. Author: Doomed Interventions 📕. Editor, The Monkey Cage 🖥. Host, Ufahamu Africa 🎙. Mom of 2. #FirstGen. 🇰🇷+🇺🇸.
This is the African politics co-editors' swan song for
#TheMonkeyCage's time at the Washington Post.
Together, @texasinafrica and I reflected on some of the great analysis our colleagues wrote up this year (including a few pieces published elsewhere).
@joeinwynnewood Thanks -- I posted this (linking to a Tw thread) before we had the article up that announced our departure from WaPo. It's linked here: 🎁 🔗 : https://wapo.st/3B8dxOA
apropos of a friend asking about #ChatGPT on Facebook earlier today, I was curious what it would spit out if I asked it "What is #TheMonkeyCage ?"
It was /mostly/ correct.
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The Monkey Cage is a blog that is affiliated with The Washington Post and focuses on political science research and analysis...It is named after a type of enclosure used in laboratories to study non-human primates, and the name is meant to reflect the blog's focus on the "political animal."
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[that last part = wrong]
@owasow nope. in this case, I don't care what science found. nope. nope. nope.
Dare ObasanjoThis is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.
The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.
So simple yet…
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
Don't miss this great overview of Russian public opinion on the war in Ukraine, by Bryn Rosenfeld and published today in #TheMonkeyCage.
TProphet1/ A lot of people have been asking for an explainer on what is going on with Southwest Airlines and the massive meltdown that occurred. Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Seat 31B travel blog (https://www.seat31b.com) and closely follow the airline industry. More importantly, I have a friend whom Southwest abandoned in Las Vegas until New Year's (along with his cat), and there was literally nothing I could do for him. Ready? Let's dive in.
Conrad Hackett 
Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.
@NathanKalmoe there’s a long history of using public health as an excuse to keep people out of the US, and other countries. We cite a number of studies examining pre-COVID pandemic othering in this article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/politics-of-pandemic-othering-putting-covid19-in-global-and-historical-context/5435248FC7AEF1468E4A8946FA57A92A
