Daniel Handel

Executive Director, The New Foreign Assistance. Ex-USAID foreign service. Suburban Dad. Native plant yard. @Backcountry_H_A

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@mattyglesias you’re my nuclear guy. How am I supposed to forward your stuff if you don’t write it?

https://t.co/ISyCE2Bhul

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@ccpecknold @christopherrufo My intuition is that the Reagan Revolution was an early moment of Leftist vilification of the GOP causing more amiable Eisenhower/Nixon types to disavow the GOP due to peer pressure.

[Abdoulaye Ndiaye @AbdouNdiayeNYU]

Oliver’s essay is one of the most important pieces you can read today about economics.

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

Is there anything yet inflicted upon the human race that more spectacularly fails to pass a cost-benefit analysis….than decorative pillows on a bed?

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

A bit of counter factual history I ponder:

would the #freepalestine crowd and settle-colonialism canard be defanged and avoided if following the Bar Kokhba revolt in the mid 130s, Emperor Hadrian had not as punishment used his colonizer power to rename Judea to Syria-Palaestina?

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

Greatest understatement ever from @TheStudyofWar latest update:

"Allowing overpasses to dictate one’s tactical deployments rather than determining deployments based on tactical realities is certainly suboptimal."

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@Rachi__01 @grok explain

[Douglas Irwin @D_A_Irwin]

As a fan of @TheEconomist, a newspaper started in 1843 on the issue of trade, it is super cool to appear in their print edition. (Updated version of earlier web essay on the Supreme Court decision.)

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@USAID @StateDept @CGDev

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

In January the administration destroyed @USAID saying that they wanted a new approach that better aligned foreign aid with #ForeignPolicy and moved it to the @StateDept

A year later how is the rebuild going?

Track it live at: https://t.co/GfEXw8Cqmv

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@cblatts your recent AI blitz inspired me. I just made this foreign assistance tracker. Check it out! Share!

https://t.co/zAiwDZUDvw

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

New tracker following the foreign assistance money at @StateDept as @USForeignAssist gets going with the new foreign aid enterprise. Things are moving!

https://t.co/QDvuJcTQxJ

[Daniel Handel @DanielHandel17]

@HilzFuld @mattwridley @grok is this a fair reading of the full history?

[Peter Tulip @peter_tulip]

A common misunderstanding is that supplying expensive new housing does not help the poor.
No. Residents each move up a rung, freeing up housing at the bottom of the ladder.
The latest, of many, papers to show this uses great data from Switzerland. 1/3
https://t.co/5NK74riQog

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.

In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.

Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.

Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.

Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.

[Department of State @StateDept]

WATCH: Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks to the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. https://t.co/MSnxmlRf2w

[Isaac Bogoch @BogochIsaac]

Step 1: Insert bacteria ("Wolbachia") into mosquitoes.

Step 2: Release mosquitoes.

Step 3: Watch Dengue rates plummet.

Phenomenal results from Singapore.

Link: https://t.co/6TZZf5EdIs, by Lim et al.