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Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, and Director of the Young Initiative for Global Political Economy @ Occidental College
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Joined January 2010
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Wonder what it will look like in H2
Check out the speed (EV sales growth, YOY):
>Colombia: +304% (Apr 26)
>Brazil: +196% fully electric (H1 26)
>Uruguay: +147% (Aug 26), EVs now 51% of new car sales
>Latin America overall: +74% (Q1 26)
>Mexico: +22% (H1 26)
Now the rest of the world:
>Europe: +29% (Jan–Aug 26)
>Global average: +4% (Jan–Aug 26)
>China: -12% (Jan–Aug 26), yet EVs hit a record 65% share because petrol sales fell even faster
>North America: -21% (Jan–Aug 26)
The world grew EV sales 4%. Latin America grew 74%. North America is going backwards.
The next EV boom isn't in Detroit or Stuttgart. It's in São Paulo, Montevideo, and Bogotá.
Wires chewing pipelines
‘The Rehearsal’s Nathan Fielder Just Helped A Pilots’ Mental Health Bill Become Law deadline.com/2026/09/nathan-…
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A little background on Alexander Kynev, who has been arrested in Moscow on a major drugs charge.
Kynev has been involved in Russian electoral politics for three decades, and he worked in (pro-Western liberal) Yabloko’s central apparatus and the State Duma from 1996 to 2000. He was also Yabloko candidate in the 1999 parliamentary election.
He later became better known as an election analyst, heading the analytical department of the Golos election-monitoring organisation and working on regional and electoral projects with the Moscow Carnegie Center and other organisations.
Kynev also taught political science at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics and has written extensively on Russia’s regional elites and political parties.
Opposition Telegram channels are suggesting he had recently been working on a major report on “large-scale election fraud.”
Prominent Russian election analyst Alexander Kynev has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of attempting to sell drugs on a large scale, RIA Novosti reports.
Kynev has pleaded not guilty, but has been remanded in custody and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
The 51-year-old is a longtime specialist on Russian elections and regional politics. He worked in pro-Western liberal Yabloko’s central apparatus from 1996 to 2000 and stood for the party in the 1999 State Duma election. He later headed the analytical department of election-monitoring group Golos and taught at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.
Russia’s Justice Ministry designated Kynev a foreign agent in February 2026.
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Alexander Kynev, a political scientist, commentator, and analyst, one of the most respected students of Russian local elections was arrested yesterday on drug-related charges. Apparently, the police planted drugs to have a pretext; the persecution is politically motivated.
By the time Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Alexander was blacklisted from all university/think tanks in the country. (I know this firsthand - not only from him, but from university administrators who were pressured by Putin's people.) Being honest, brave, and independent in his work was his main crime.
He did not leave Russia during the war, despite the pressure. I tried to help him, as well as dozens other Russian scholars, but this was a tough case - many Western researchers rely on "Kynev index" and his data, but, alas, he didn't have enough academic credentials.
Meanwhile, in times, when Putin had to falsify elections, national and local, to a larger and larger extent each time, even watching elections and gathering data has became dangerous. For a real political analyst in Russia, being jailed on trumpeted charges is a logical end.
I hope political scientists will speak up in support of Alexander.
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Last month, our team at Cleanview broke the news that Amazon is building the biggest natural gas plant in America.
Since then, we've identified 8 gas plants linked to Amazon data centers with a combined capacity of 17.5 GW.
Amazon, like other hyperscalers, have tried to avoid building new power infrastructure to support their data centers. Doing so is costly and slow compared to using the existing grid.
But in recent years, as demand for compute has exploded, it’s become harder for Amazon to identify data center sites where this is possible. Existing infrastructure only supports giga-scale data center development in so many places.
Everywhere else, Amazon needs someone to build new firm power generation. And in the AI era, that has meant one thing: new natural gas power plants.
In Cleanview's latest report on Amazon's power strategy, we found that utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs.
That’s roughly 1.5 times as much power as New York City consumes at its peak in a given year.
Amazon's gas portfolio now rivals the solar portfolio the company has spent 15 years building as you can see in the chart below.
We wrote much more about all this in our report, which is available on the Cleanview website. We also published free previews of the research in our newsletter over the last two days.
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Does the EU Commission even have a workable plan beyond “voluntary cuts” in Chinese exports to the EU?
“In 2019, prior to the pandemic, for every container Europe exported to China, China exported 2.5 back. In the first eight months of this year, that ratio stood at one to 6:1 in China’s favour.”
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This, simultaneously, makes zero sense AND all the sense in the world
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Russia’s having an M&A boom! 😃
42% of it is state confiscations! 😡
A must read (and her @HurstPublishers book, too) from @amenka ⬇️
Russia’s Elite Has Lost Its Room to Maneuver nytimes.com/2026/09/18/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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POSTDOC ALERT: I am delighted to share that the @MIT_CIS (MIT Center for International Studies) is searching for two Postdoctoral Associates for the 2026–27 academic year:
careers.peopleclick.com/care…
Mark Carney officially has the highest approval rating in Canadian history cultmtl.com/2026/09/mark-car…
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Pretty insane PhD job market spillover problem in China.
Shenzhen Middle School has over 100 teachers with a PhD, and 150 graduates of Tsinghua/PKU, 100+ alum of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
You don’t need a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua to teach middle school math…. but the job market in China basically forces that lol
More doctoral graduates from elite global and domestic universities are bypassing careers in academia and research to work as school teachers in China’s major cities, driven by an oversupplied labor market and fierce competition for university posts. caixinglobal.com/2026-09-17/…
generational run for Carney (btw, Canada does not have term limits for prime ministers)
Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"
"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."
"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"
"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"
"Every day"
"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."
My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.
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This year China will produce more vehicles than U.S. + Japan + Korea + Germany + France combined.
Vehicle Out by Nation 2026
China: 36m
USA: 10.5m
Japan: 8.5m
Korea: 4.3m
Germany: 4.1m
France 1.4m
With 7.2m left over.
Sources: ACEA, Jama, Kama, Automotive News
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I’ve given Claude Opus various published papers (and my own unpublished ones) and asked it to review them. (Don’t panic—I’m not uploading confidential manuscripts.)
The reviews it produces are excellent. It finds statistical errors, internal contradictions, and conceptual confusions that human reviewers miss; it provides useful suggestions; it has a good sense of what counts as significant and novel and what doesn’t; and it’s generous in its appreciation for what the authors get right. And it doesn’t suffer from the strong “myside bias” humans have; it doesn’t recommend rejection because the author didn’t cite it enough; it doesn’t insult the authors; and it doesn’t agree to write a review and then never send anything in.
As a journal editor, I’m not sure what to do with this. If I gave up on human reviewers and used GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus instead, my bosses would fire me, probably rightfully so. The only constructive thing I can recommend is that, before submitting something to a journal, researchers and scholars use this tremendously valuable resource. (Just don’t tell the models that it’s your paper, because they do suffer from sycophancy.)
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Today, @Google @NVIDIA @EmeraldAI_ are launching the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), joined by @AnthropicAI, @TheAESCorp, @ConstellationEG, @GenerateCapital, @NationalGrid, @NRGenergy, and a dozen other industry partners.
Our shared mission: modernize power system planning and operations for the 21st century to unlock the full potential of flexible data centers, enabling digital infrastructure to actively enhance system utilization, affordability, and reliability.
Instead of waiting 5-7+ years for traditional system upgrades, multiple studies have found that reducing net grid withdrawal for less than 100 hours per year can unlock dozens of gigawatts of capacity, via compute flexibility, storage, or generation. At Google, we’ve proven this model by integrating 1 gigawatt of demand response capacity nationwide.
To advance this mission, two new Google-commissioned reports are being released today that map actionable pathways forward:
1) @TheBrattleGroup: "Solutions for Timely Interconnection of Large Loads: Enabling Non-Firm Transmission Service," providing a technical blueprint to turn recent bipartisan direction from @FERC into operational reality.
2) @AuroraER_Oxford: "Curtailment Mitigation for Provisional Controllable Load Resources: Modeling the Effects of Front-of-Meter Netting," modeling flexible data centers in @ERCOT_ISO paired with front-of-meter resources.
With thanks to AEMA's additional launch partners, @ADI_News, @CalibrantEnergy, @CamusEnergy, @ClearPathFound, @fluenceenergy, @GridUnity, PassKey, RWE, Splight, @verrusdata, and @voltusinc.
So, I certainly agree with the latter part. But what exactly is lost in foregoing AI development? Cant a backward country just adopt it later and benefit (as happened with trains, electricity, antibiotics)? every country is missing out on “AI development” outside of China and US
