Adam Ramey

Political scientist & Assoc Dean @nyuabudhabi, data scientist, cigar lover, aspiring rock star, & American politics junkie. Proud 🇱🇧🇺🇸. RT != Endorsement.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

No shocker to anyone paying attention to my posts for the last 2 weeks, but to be crystal clear: I stand wholeheartedly with the UAE, my Emirati brethren, and my fellow residents. Iran’s brazen aggression unites us all. Mark my words: this will be remembered as our finest hour.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

Count me in, too. I'm really happy to see this kind of thorough self-reflection and a repudiation of politically-charged gobbledygook that has infected much of the humanities (and some of the social sciences more than others).

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

I strongly endorse this outstanding report, commissioned by Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew Martin, Chancellor of Washington University on the State of Scholarship. It is a cri de couer about the state of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. The object of scrutinty is

"a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria in the assessment of research and a more general repudiation of longstanding ideals of rigor and objectivity."

The report is properly nuanced in identifying subfields in which the scholarly enterprise has been damaged and as opposed to blanket disciplinary condemnations because of problems in particular areas.

https://t.co/VhO4x4qOED

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

برافو يارئيس!

[Bechara Gerges @BecharaGerges]

🚩President Joseph Aoun to CNN confronting Tehran directly: Lebanon is not Iran’s country, it is ours. He accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States, and put Hezbollah on notice that there’s no other way except through one path only, negotiation.

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

The California election ended almost two days ago.

There is still less than 56% of the vote counted.

COME ON MAN.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@seanjwestwood You are starting tough conversations which is understandably going to generate some blowback, but kicking the can down the road is a recipe for bankruptcy. Thank you for your boldness!

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

The Dan Sullivans primary will inspire countless papers

[xyzlojones @xyzlojones]

Alaska '26: Oops! All Dan Sullivan

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

This is hilarious but also tragic. Someone should run for SoS of CA on a platform of “I’ll count votes much faster” (which I think is basically the SoS’ only real job).

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

I’m not opposed to jungle primary in principle, but why bother to have a runoff if someone gets >50% of the vote in the first round? I’m talking to you, California.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@seanjwestwood It hurts my head to read the abstract.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

#NotTheOnion

[New York Post @nypost]

Viral albino buffalo named 'Donald Trump' spared from Eid sacrifice in Bangladesh https://t.co/cRMM35nC3W

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

Let’s see how Iran responds

[سكاي نيوز عربية-عاجل @SkyNewsArabia_B]

القيادة الوسطى الأميركية: قواتنا نفذت ضربات في جنوب إيران دفاعا عن النفس

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@waitbutwhy Nope. Coke Zero tastes more like regular Coke. Diet Coke tastes like the New Coke of 1980s infamy.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@PatsKam Chateauneuf du Pape. Trust me.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

This is one of two views in the Trump White House. The other is effectively “cut your losses” and walk away. If Trump takes a deal that doesn’t change the February 27 status quo and allows Iran to toll Hormuz, what was the point of all this?

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The deal being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world.

Not remotely America First. It’s straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region.

Overdue. Let’s go.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨A U.S. official briefed on the negotiations told me the Trump administration and Iran are close to a deal for ending the war and noted remaining gaps focus on "wording" of several points

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

I’m not sure Trump’s calculus, tbh. A successful conclusion to the conflict with Iran is surely better for the GOP than running away with a detail worse than the status quo ex ante. He talks tough like Churchill but leads like Eden.

[Senator Roger Wicker @SenatorWicker]

We are at a moment that will define President Trump’s legacy.

His instincts have been to finish the job he started in Iran, but he is being ill advised to pursue a deal that would not be worth the paper it is written on. Our commander-in-chief needs to allow America's skilled armed forces to finish the destruction of Iran's conventional military capabilities and reopen the strait.

Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran's Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness. We must finish what we started. It is past time for action.

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

Barak has been one of the most important reporters during the war. Take note: there’s a high probability of announcing a deal. A good deal? Probably not.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

On Friday afternoon the White House announced Trump changed his schedule and instead of staying at his Bedminster Golf Club on the weekend, he will go back to the White House on Friday evening after a planned speech in New York

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

@bryanrbeal @EWErickson It’s because they’re rabidly anti-AC

[Adam Ramey @adamramey]

The Kingdom of Thailand (Siam) once had a Greek Prime Minister (Constantine Phaulkon).

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?