Turmoil within Twitter, how Imran Khan divided Pakistan, and America’s lack of comprehensive family support policies.
| Limited family support policies create a powder keg for our nation’s future Even before the pandemic, America’s lack of comprehensive family support policies created significant burdens for parents. With the 118th Congress beginning in the new year, Hailey Gibbs and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek call for a bipartisan focus on family policies and programs, including comprehensive paid leave and high-quality, accessible child care. Read more |
| Pakistan’s house divided “What is clear is that Khan is the greatest threat Pakistan’s establishment has ever seen and that this unstable year in Pakistani politics has not yet reached its denouement.” In a recent op-ed, Madiha Afzal discusses how Imran Khan polarized Pakistan. Read in Foreign Affairs |
| Listen: Twitter, Trump, and online speech More than half of Twitter’s employees have left or been laid-off; regulators at the Federal Trade Commission and the European Union have demanded that Elon Musk maintain effective security and privacy policy enforcement; and Musk has allowed Donald Trump back on the platform. On the latest episode of TechTank, Darrell West discusses these developments with Nicol Turner Lee and Tom Wheeler. Listen to the podcast |
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