KABUL, Afghanistan — When Rahima Jami heard that the Americans and the Taliban were close to a peace deal, she thought about her feet.
Ms. Jami is now a lawmaker in the Afghan Parliament, but back in 1996, when Taliban insurgents took power, she was a headmistress — until she was forced out of her job and told she could leave her home only in an ankle-length burqa.
A year after the Trump administration tried to boost American manufacturers of laundry equipment, prices are up, sales have fallen and stock prices are down https://t.co/80abjti7OM
On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and opened fire. He killed 20 children no older than 7 and six adult staff members before turning the gun on himself; earlier that day, he killed his mother, Hundreds of documents from his childhood were just released; we asked experts if there's a lesson in there to identify early risk factors.
See this whole thread. It makes it so clear that the enormous amount of hate, divisiveness and mistrust is not real, it is caused by a tiny minority. It is basically ginned up by a small number of teen trolls with a lot of time on their hands. The social media people are failing at the task of maintaining the benefits of freedom of speech. Someone has to fix the problem of being able to play the algorithms. It's not just a Putin problem, as anyone can do it.
"Messages to Arabia: Al-Qaida Attacks MBS and the Saudi Monarchy" - new for @jihadica by Bernard Haykel and me examining al-Qaida's recent anti-Saudi propaganda https://t.co/WTuiRXfpCe
Populists of left and right imagine that the titans of Davos are figures of surpassing power. Turns out they are winging it with the same fear and confusion as everyone else. My take on this year’s #wef19. https://t.co/w145vIHpjk
20-minute video, partly because it has an intro. with clips of public statements by the president, gets into the Manafort news as well, and interesting anecdotals from Deutsch from his conversations with Cohen:
The Trump administration took the unusual and provocative step Wednesday of recognizing the leader of the political opposition in Venezuela as the country's legitimate president.
Excl: Woefully underprepared Tories will lose a snap general election and Corbyn will be PM of a rainbow coalition - bombshell internal party assessmenthttps://t.co/BoW2d73q84
Factories in China and the U.S. have seen orders slump
American farmers are hurting
A collapse in Chinese demand for iPhones knocked nearly $75 billion off Apple’s market cap
