#Policy

During #SWW the US Army grappled with how best to respond to and, if possible, prevent the proliferation of “psychiatric casualties” in combat units. The “intensity and duration”of a soldier’s
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There is no law against homosexuality, just a law against certain sexual activities that the law deems unnatural. Accordingly, it is not unlawful to identify as a homosexual or lesbian
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Let’s play a little game. Guess the “intellectual” - His grandfather donated ₹1.75 lakhs to Gov. O'Dwyer (who backed Gen. Dyer after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre) & was also awarded
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The @beisgovuk R&D roadmap offers a big vision for big investment. But what does it actually say? We've spent the morning digging into the detail. Here's our take, for your
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1. Some have accused The Leave Alliance of being a "remainer troll account". This is both offensive and inaccurate. We are a leave campaign - but we did not swear
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A question that came up a lot during brexit debates that was asked of those of us who took a pro brexit position was whether we were worried about "aiding
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#HongKong proposes significant amendments to the Immigration Ordinance relating to its refugee/protection screening mechanism. Given it's already dysfunctional (with one of the lowest refugee acceptance rates in the world (below
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This winter, we've seen sparks of public acknowledgement that knee-jerk pivots away from pre-2020 epi/med/public health principles were very costly mistakes.And we ignored what we knew b/c some thought it
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Important thread incoming. 1/_. “Joe Biden has shown this week that some of his ambitions are more radical. On immigration, he is way to Obama’s left, proposing a mass amnesty of millions
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Toxic relationships are one of the major stressors responsible for mental health problems and most people don't know the signs of it and keep dragging it at the expense of
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In his opening testimony, Vilsack includes "[redesigning] laws to promote openness and fairness" and improve competition as one of his top four priorities The Secretary indirectly acknowledged some of the
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Something not many people talk about as a result and reason for the Civil War, was the massive and permanent change in the size and nature of the federal government.
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THE FABIAN SOCIETY A British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. If
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The need for intel reform is constant: "These agencies always need to be reformed," Former SecDef Bob Gates wrote. "Bureaucracies always have a way of reverting to the mean, which
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An update on Montana's COVID economy. Using CPS microdata, MT's unemployment rate was 8.2% in May. This is 3.1pp improvement over April. Note, for a variety of reasons the unemployment
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1/ The father of the universal mask mandate @jeremyphoward. Why did this AI scientist from San Fran go all in with his #masks4all movement for a couple of months last
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