#Policy

1/ #Kolbar means ‘transborder porters’ in #Kurdish. Thousands of impoverished Kurds engage in this deadly trade. What usually kills Kolbars though is not Kurdistan's treacherous mountains, normally seen as Kurds’
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We knew from day one that farmer protests will end in violence. Reasons were simple. 1. They refused involvement of supreme court monitored committee. 2. Govt offer of suspending laws
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So one of my roles at the Examiner is editing the Washington Briefing section of the magazine. It's a lot of policy work which may not excite a lot of
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Thread 1/Sorry, but I think he's doing the right thing. UK's suffering from a deep & lasting Tory Sickness. Needs time to repair, heal, convalesce. Needs to be strong &
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.@JKynge:"What was conceived as world’s biggest devlopmnt program is unravelling into what could become China’s first overseas debt crisis.Lending byfinancial institutns that drive BRI...has fallen off a cliff & BJ
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We’re not even back to where we were in early March. We’re in a much worse place. The only thing I can think to do is amplify the voices of
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The @nigimmigration has pulled off some great work in the last few years. First the Business Visa on Arrival (now a VoA for all African passport holders), a brand new
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Rough COVID stats in Indiana today. I am working in the ER today and also working w/ dedicated teams to help get us to the other side of this pandemic
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The Detroit Education Research Partnership has 2 new reports out today: 1) Why Do Detroit Students Miss School: Implications for Returning to School After COVID-192) Third Grade Reading and Attendance
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Read the article twice and took notes - things I haven't done long time in past cause it needed to be responded. While it will entice appreciation from the usual
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We know a lot abt Post-9/11 vets today that we didn’t 10, even 5 yes ago. For #StandTo2021 @BushCenterMSI & @IVMFSyracuseU did a canvass of the literature & a new
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This morning at #mydataonline2020 we're discussing different approaches to data stewardship and potential principles individuals and organisations can follow in their interactions with data w/ @KapoorAstha, @kaodro, @javicreus, Jessica
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Today we have published the latest Living Standards Outlook – taking a look at what the next few years have in store for household incomes in the UK. A few
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The noise machines under Winnipeg bridges were not ok, but I also want to put this moral question in the larger context of ‘hostile architecture’ in Winnipeg. This kind of
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Despite 1,264 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2019, an increase of 6% from 1,187 in 2018, are we being a little cruel to lay all the blame on SNP
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With today’s announcement of a historic peace agreement between Israel and the UAE, I thought it would be a good time to go to the vault for all the hot
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