Political science professor (or so I'm told). Research emphasis on electoral politics and public opinion in Taiwan and South Korea.
Joined November 2011
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5 Sep 2018
I once gerrymandered a pizza when my wife said to cut it in four pieces.
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
May 17
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Dear @JohnCena,
My wife's most played song on Spotify of all time was your theme. You beat @taylorswift13 !!!
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My latest on how China is changing its efforts to limit Taiwan's diplomatic relations - and what Taiwan can do about it.
pf.org.tw/tw/pfch/13-11948.h…
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
Feb 22
This is a spectacularly important study.
Published in Nature, it provides solid evidence that this platform pushes those on the right further to the right, more pro-Trump, more pro-Russia,…
And that these effects are programmed into the platform
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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My piece w/ @WKUPoliSci student Lydia Crisp "Pro-Taiwan or Anti-China? Parsing US Public Support for Defending Taiwan"
thediplomat.com/2026/02/pro-… Via @Diplomat_APAC
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
Feb 4
The CIA has shuttered The World Factbook.
It had been published and used as a reference source by journalists, teachers, students, and travelers since 1962.
cia.gov/stories/story/spotli…
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Jan 21
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. apnews.com/article/ice-arres…
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Jesus—Nearly half (47%) of Republicans think the NASA moon landing in 1969 was faked or have doubts, and 52% think vaccines cause autism or have doubts.
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3 Dec 2025
By repeatedly stealing my wife's phone over the year to rig her Spotify, this was her most played song. Unfortunately, there was no @JohnCena video in her Wrapped.
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
6 Oct 2025
It’s just amazing that this myth about Vietnam still circulates on the hard right
We did not have a reliable local partner, no matter how hard we tried, and we couldn’t seal off South VN from infiltration like we could S Korea
The only way to win was staying indefinitely or
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5 Oct 2025
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
3 Oct 2025
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-…
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
13 Sep 2025
There is a bill in Congress right now that would allow the State Department to revoke the passports of American citizens that criticize U.S. foreign policy.
How is this even remotely legal?
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
13 Sep 2025
Denmark no longer sees the United States as a reliable and non-threatening partner and it just cost our companies $8 billion. Turns out threatening to invade and annex Greenland was not just a harmless bit of stupidity.
13 Sep 2025
It pays to be a good ally. Denmark yesterday announced our biggest defence investment ever. We will buy air defence for 8 billion euros, and it will all come from European producers. It has been a strong political desire to buy from reliable and non-threatening partners.
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
5 Sep 2025
U.S. Department of Energy now unaware of breakthrough technology known as bAtTeRiEs!
5 Sep 2025
Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing. washingtonexaminer.com/polic…
Community note
Batteries allow electricity to be stored and used at a different time than when it is generated.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_…
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
16 Jul 2025
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
1 Jul 2025
It's scary how accurate George W. Bush's prediction about the US moving toward isolationism and protectionism was.
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
20 Jun 2025
Guy who has golfed 33 days this year thinks Americans need to work more.
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
5 Jun 2025
Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.
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3 Jun 2025
Lee Jae-Myung wins South Korean election, with only a slight increase in his vote share compared to his '22 loss. In the absence of a third party, the PPP might have held on here, despite Yoon's impeachment.
chosun.com/election2025/
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Timothy S. Rich 芮宗泰 retweeted
30 May 2025
Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat it for emphasis: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
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