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Trump and other leaders use the word 'crisis' to claim there's an emergency that demands urgent action. A leadership expert explains how to evaluate those claims.
Trump meets with Schumer and Pelosi at the White House in December.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Trump, Schumer and Pelosi have fallen into a classic negotiation trap that often prevents deals from getting made, which has led to the shutdown stalemate.
Factors ranging from the timing of a book’s release to its subject matter can determine whether it will crack the vaunted list.
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It's easier to make the list than you might think.
Ilhan Omar, a Somali American, who was elected from Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, will be the first woman in U.S. Congress to wear a hijab.
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The de Young Museum of San Francisco recently opened an exhibit devoted to the Islamic fashion scene. Here's how Muslim women's fashions challenge popular stereotypes.
Menyiapkan karung pasir di Virginia Beach, Virginia, sebelum kedatangan Hurricane Florence, 12 September 2018.
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Individu dengan lebih banyak koneksi di luar keluarga dekat dan teman dekat mereka lebih memungkinkan untuk mengungsi dari daerah yang rentan sebelum terjangan badai terjadi.
Assembling sandbags in Virginia Beach, Va., before Hurricane Florence’s arrival.
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Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters loom. Research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to get moving.
Trump meets with his ‘board.’
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Many students and professors at US colleges and universities want their schools to divest holdings in fossil fuel companies, but it's a hard sell for school administrators.
Iraeli Arab Knesset member Jamal Zahalka is removed after protesting the bill’s passage.
AP/Olivier Fitoussi
Rather than transform Israel into an undemocratic 'apartheid' state, the new nation-state law is more likely to ensure that Israel can't be transformed into a liberal democracy or binational state.
Evacuating Corpus Christi, Texas ahead of Hurricane Bret in 1999.
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Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders (L) and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump administration officials falsely claim the law required them to separate immigrant families. The same excuse was used in the Nazi era to bar hundreds of thousands of refugees from the US.
Protesters at a rally on the state of the EPA organized by the American Federation of Government Employees union, April 25, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
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Chris Sellers, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Lindsey Dillon, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Phil Brown, Northeastern University
Government agencies are supposed to listen to the industries they regulate, but what if they tune out everyone else? Scholars call this regulatory capture, and some staffers see it happening at EPA.
How does searching affect voting?
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Social media sites aren't the only online systems that can secretly influence people's votes. Search engines can too and may be even more successful – and undetectable.
Scott Pruitt signing an official order at the Resolute Desk in President Trump’s office.
EPA
A desk is a place to work. But it can also be a symbol of prestige and power, as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has demonstrated in his choice of expensive and ostentatious desks for his office.
Facilitated Communication began in Australia in the 1980s.
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Facilitated Communication began in Australia in the 1980s to help people with disabilities communicate, but it has since been shown to replace the voice of the person with that of the facilitator.
A protest by ‘If Not Now’ outside the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., March 2017.
Gili Getz
As Israel approaches the 70th anniversary of its establishment, many older American Jews will be celebrating. Many younger ones will wonder whether the Jewish state is something to celebrate at all.
Protesters pray in front of their tents during a demonstration along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, March 30, 2018.
AP/Adel Hana
The violence that led to the deaths of 18 Palestinians last week in Gaza dominated the headlines. But that's not the real story from that day: The nonviolence of thousands of other demonstrators is.
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Fitness trackers report their location and map the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
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Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Director, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University