Hey there, it's Ilya. It's been a little while. I wanted to share with you my latest piece of journalism.

It's a series I made with the Boston Globe and WNYC's On the Media called The Harvard Plan.

And it's about what the Trump administration's pressure campaign is doing to American universities.

It's got memorable characters, thorny, moral, and ethical problems, and the stakes could not be higher.

So please have a listen.

Ryan looked forward to election night, 2024.

He expected a pleasant return to form, the way election nights used to be.

This is going to be elections being fun again.

We're going to sit, We're going to drink beer.

We're going to watch election turns come in and play like games.

I say return to form because the 2016 election hit Ryan like a sucker punch.

Not because he doesn't like Trump, although he definitely does not like Trump, but because

the models failed so badly.

Ryan Enos is a political scientist at Harvard, and specifically, he's a numbers guy.

It seemed like this kind of tragedy for quantitative political science because it defied a lot of

people's predictions.

Then came 2020, the COVID election, and after that, the false claims of a stolen election.

Still, going into the first Tuesday of November 24, Ryan felt good about the models.

That evening, he made his way over to Memorial Hall, which is the most Hogwartsy building

on Harvard's campus.

They throw a big election watch party there every four years. A lot of undergrad's turnout.

My role was to kind of tell them what they wanted to hear, which was that Harris was going to win,

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