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... rights changed in the last 25 years, and what are the most effective ways of protecting children’s rights today? We took the discussion to Twitter. Dr. Jody Heymann (@WPolicyForum), Dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, shared her ...
... quality of life for the exonerated? What are the most effective ways to prevent wrongful convictions in the first place? We took the discussion to Twitter. Award-winning investigative reporter and journalism professor Bill Moushey (@Bmoushey), who has reported extensively on crime and punishment issues, joined the conversation along with ...
... NewsHour co-anchor Judy Woodruff, the first in an ongoing series of collaborations between The Atlantic and the PBS NewsHour. We took the conversation to Twitter. Should all teen sexting be treated as a crime? If not, under what circumstances does it cross the line? Who is accountable in a ...
We asked for your midterm election questions, and PBS NewsHour’s politics team answered! Senior politics producer Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoPBS), politics reporter/editor Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) and politics reporter/producer Rachel Wellford (@rachelwellford) addressed questions on Twitter on subjects ranging from ballot measures to voter ID laws to campaign ads ...
... of art ever pose a legitimate threat, either to a person’s ideology or their well-being? We addressed the topic of censorship in a Twitter chat. Guests Deborah Caldwell-Stone (@OIF), deputy director for the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom, and Justin Peligri (@JustinPeligri), senior columnist for ...
... and criminal behavior? We asked you to join the conversation on Twitter. Sandra K. Intrieri (@ski626), principal of Millbrook High School in New York, shared her perspective as an educator. Read a transcript of the conversation below. [View the story "Twitter Chat: When does bullying become a crime?" on Storify]
... share your opinion in a Twitter chat. Lindsey Smith (@lindseypsmith), a doctoral student in nutrition epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joined the conversation. Read a transcript of the discussion below. [View the story "Twitter chat: Should the government tell us what to eat?" on Storify]
... twitter.com/NASA/status/519808504539148288 The U.S. Department of the Interior shared photos from the western U.S., where viewing conditions were best. https://twitter.com/Interior/status/519859921081217024 The Sydney Observatory shared this shot of the blood moon as seen from Australia. https://twitter.com/sydneyobs/status/519823098334306304 ...
... faced by this growing demographic? How does marital status impact access to services such as Medicare and Social Security? We explored these questions in a Twitter chat. Albert Terrillion (@selfmanage_sma) and Ramsey Alwin (@NCOAging) of the National Council on Aging joined the conversation, along with Eric Klinenberg (@ericklinenberg), a ...
Twitter suspended the accounts of hundreds more pro-Islamic State group users this week. And some users have put up a defense -- in the form of a kitten. Some of the account holders have swapped their gun-toting profile photos for cats, the now famous Internet memes. “This is the ...
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