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Why Attracting Top Talent Should Come First

This essay is a follow-up to my Washington Post piece and a companion to a recent talk I gave at the Progress Conference 2026. It is specifically addressed to people who already favor (skilled) immigration and care about economic growth (th...

6 days ago
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How to Do Fact-Checking Right in the Era of AI

I’m excited to welcome a new guest essay by Steven Denney, a political scientist at Leiden University who writes Pixels and Patterns. It continues our more practical series on professional writing with AI tools. Although this one might seem...

9 days ago
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Why Governments Don't Have to Restrict Immigration to Save Democracy

I keep getting questions from folks asking whether I’ve become a reactionary conservative. Well, here is one of my more liberal takes for you, if you wish. I originally published this research note in 2024 for the European University Instit...

a month ago
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How Australia Already Made Immigration Popular and How to Keep It That Way

As many of my readers know, Canada has done more than any other country to shape how I think about immigration done better, which is why I keep coming back to it. But the question I get almost every time I write about it is "what about Aust...

a month ago
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Making Sense of the Spanish Exception

The images from Ceuta were everywhere this summer, and the obvious question is how long Spain's quiet immigration politics can last. Today's guest essay by , a Spanish economist who writes and hosts at Money & Macro, explains the system beh...

2 months ago
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  • Alexander Kustov

    Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular." Professor. Immigration policy, public opinion, AI (?), and effective governance.

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    Anotaciones sobre economía, cultura y política.

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    Asst. Prof., UC Davis

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    Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts

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    Latin America @ Hudson, Contributing Writer at The Dispatch.

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