Amid rapid military changes in Syria, the U.S. government’s handling of Iran policy, and escalation in the Gulf region, Shibley Telhami provides insights from recent surveys of what Americans really think about key issues in the Middle East.
Yesterday, news broke that the United Auto Workers union ratified a new deal with General Motors to end a strike of nearly 50,000 workers. As one of the biggest auto strikes in decades comes to a close, Joseph Kane explains how unions improve economic equity and explores why union membership rates vary across the United States.
"The last line of defense against a lawless, oathless president is the electoral process, and clarifying Trump’s conduct before the electorate is thus crucial to voters' ability to make informed decisions," argues Benjamin Wittes.
"Deaths of despair" in America. A Yahoo Finance feature this week highlighted key takeaways from Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto’s workon desperation in America. Their research finds that despair and lower levels of well-being have played a significant role in the deaths of more than 1 million Americans from 2006 to 2015.
A disrupted impeachment hearing. After a group of House Republicans stormed a closed-door impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill and delayed testimony from a Pentagon official, David M. Rubenstein Fellow and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson joined KQED to discuss key developments in the Trump impeachment inquiry.
How our choice of housing affects our lives. On The Indicator podcast from NPR’s Planet Money, housing policy expert Jenny Schuetz talks about some of the many factors, other than money, that shape America’s housing market.
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