Michael Clemens

How we used a government-run visa lottery to measure the effect of foreign hiring on US firms and workers: Thank you to @aeajournals.bsky.social for highlighting my paper with @ethan-lewis.bsky.social —>

9th Circuit rules Trump illegally federalized National Guard in LA last year. Ruling has little immediate effect, but sets precedent on judicial review of executive invocation of emergency powers for domestic use of military, and on the meaning of “rebellion.” reason.com/volokh/2026/...

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It turns out that an international system based on “deals”, instead of rules, endangers all of us personally and our democracies collectively.

China's demographics look increasingly like Japan's • By 2060 people aged 60+ could make up nearly half of China's population, up from ~20% currently • Beijing is betting on robot workers, but poor demographic outlook makes catchup with US an increasingly remote prospect www.ft.com/content/512e...

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

When the US President first made this statement at a White House meeting in January 2018, many attendees told the public he didn’t. Now he confirms it. What is worth sacrificing your honor and integrity? Slobbering racist bigotry harms all Conservatives and all Liberals. It poisons America.

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Our rule of law is an extremely precious asset that underlies our prosperity and freedom. It requires that people who have committed serious federal crimes be prosecuted and punished, whether they are Republicans or Democrats. Destroying the rule of law doesn’t help anyone’s ‘side’.

International students who stay after graduation (OPT) cause large increases in innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity in the US. I talked with @insidehighered.com about the US Administration's new tax on those students—>

JD Vance here with a terrible understanding of economics and how immigration works.

A remarkable new resource to analyze up-to-the-minute econ data from my @piie.com colleague @jasonfurman.bsky.social —>

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

If it is possible to know which specific companies are now going to be selling Russian fuel in the US, someone please let us all know because that’s something many of us want to know.

Who is going to eat all the cats, Mr. Vice President?

Our public servants swear to uphold our Constitution. They are loyal to us—the people. They do not and must not swear loyalty to any individual, ever.

I spoke with @pbsnews.org about the likely economic ripple effects of the US Administration's policy of international student exclusion.

Poisoning our American institutions does not help anyone’s ‘side’. It hurts all Conservative Americans and all Liberal Americans. And it will continue to hurt us for a long time after those guilty are gone.

This is a simply astonishing video. Americans should watch it for decades as they try to understand this historical period.

“Europe needs a better offer, grounded in its own capabilities rather than those of its mercurial ally.” In Foreign Affairs, Dean Ngaire Woods and Research Fellow Claas Mertens argue that Europe must reduce its dependence on the US and strengthen global partnerships.👇 https://ow.ly/liCF50ZZf5f

I've worked with Judge Reyes in the past. No one is smarter. Her closing sentence here is an epigraph for our era.

That being said, you'll have to claw em-dashes from my cold, dead hands.

Shattering our relationships with generational allies puts America last. It dims the future of every Conservative and every Liberal.

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

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This nonpartisan warning should be read by all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.

Zelenskyy: "If the United States supports Putin, it's unbelievable, it's a tragedy. It's a historic mistake. If United States officially takes the side of Russia, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand."

The people responsible for this are terrorists.

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000 nfap.com/research/new...

The US Administration’s project of smearing @drlisadcook.bsky.social would be filthy and illegal even if the President had not done what he falsely accuses her of doing. Poisoning our rule of law, that precious American institution, harms all Conservatives and all Liberals.

A useful discussion of efforts to foster a greater range of values in academia, including at @jhu.edu —>

I'm starting to have this strange feeling that maybe Barack Obama was born in the United States.

Between 2023-24 and 2024-25, international immigration to the DMV region fell by 44%, contributing to a slowdown in the region’s overall growth.