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On the surface, President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will withdraw troops from Syria – albeit at a pace that’s still being determined – may resemble Obama’s effort to pull out of the Middle East. But UCLA’s Jim Gelvin, a scholar who has been studying the Middle East for more than 30 years, compares the two administration’s policies and argues that Obama’s plan, unlike Trump’s, fit into a larger strategy for the region. “Unlike Obama,” Gelvin writes, “Trump does not have a Middle East strategy, grand or otherwise. He has impulses.”
All racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. are growing faster than whites, according to the Census Bureau, and by 2044 the white population in the U.S. will no longer be a majority. This powerful shift in the makeup of the U.S. population has created ideal conditions for a political backlash against people of color, including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and especially immigrants of color, writes Monica Duffy Toft of the Fletcher School at
Tufts University.
Among the concerns the public and officials alike have voiced about 3D-printed guns are that they may be made anywhere, yet be undetectable in security checkpoints and untraceable by police – all threats to public safety. But they may be even more dangerous for the people who might make and use them, points out Jeremy Straub, who studies 3D printing processes.
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Danielle Douez
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President Donald Trump speaks at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq.
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James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
Obama's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan had several facets and was part of a wider strategy in the Middle East.
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Self-proclaimed ‘white nationalists,’ white supremacists and ‘alt-right’ activists hold what they called a ‘Freedom of Speech’ rally in Washington, June 25, 2017.
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Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
In the US, non-whites have higher birth rates and make up the bulk of new immigrants. As white people lose their demographic majority, some will resist the accompanying political changes.
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Tiny, but deadly, flaws may be hiding in the parts of this 3D-printed gun.
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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University
Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.
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Diana Evans, Trinity College
Banned since 2011, pork-barrel spending may well help Congress pass bills on schedule. Now, a powerful Democratic lawmaker said she'd like to resurrect the practice to make passing budgets easier.
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Monti Datta, University of Richmond
Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the U.S., across the globe or just in certain industries.
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Micaela Martinez, Columbia University Medical Center; Kevin M. Bakker, University of Michigan
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Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University
China just became the first country to land a probe on the far side of the moon. It's a technological achievement and another sign of China's capabilities and ambitions in space.
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