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Here is our weekly survey of news stories to round out the week of May 16-22, 2016.
Obama was wrong to impose a right to identity-based facilities, writes a professor at Yale. https://t.co/2OyCqCbcbl pic.twitter.com/yNzo6Da0ku
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) May 19, 2016
Some within the U.S. government believe the early evidence indicates a bomb downed #MS804. https://t.co/QZMrOO5Dhq pic.twitter.com/0vccoXNlnB
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 19, 2016
A loyalist of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been nominated as Turkey’s prime minister https://t.co/a4GskRBLj4 pic.twitter.com/dkQRV4TFak
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 19, 2016
A new video shows Indonesian “cubs of the caliphate” training with ISIS in Syria, @bsoloway & @HenryJohnsoon report https://t.co/5qDGVWoBmQ
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 19, 2016
The new UN climate chief has a tough job ahead in implementing the Paris agreement: https://t.co/qQPXh6vuVn pic.twitter.com/ozyYYSwynt
— Brookings (@BrookingsInst) May 19, 2016
The 2016 presidential campaign has exposed worries among many voters about a U.S. in decline https://t.co/HaYJ463hlY pic.twitter.com/VqI3YITpRL
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 19, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump‘s list of presumptive SCOTUS nominees is terrific. https://t.co/jllVTPUUiR #Cato2016 pic.twitter.com/7TdJJM18fF
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) May 19, 2016
If Vietnam signs on as a de facto U.S. ally, credit China’s regional ambitions as the proximate cause: https://t.co/Gyyc0wogPH
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) May 19, 2016
Americans’ failure to vote and engage in politics has left our democracy in crisis. https://t.co/o4UWq3PlwZ pic.twitter.com/XvznteDnFY
— U.S. News (@usnews) May 19, 2016
15% of American adults have used ride-hailing apps, but a third have never heard of them https://t.co/ub7ZjD6sPh pic.twitter.com/4FdB2WCVDI
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) May 19, 2016
Women earn more than men in just 7 of 446 major jobs analyzed by @WSJ. What’s your pay gap? https://t.co/8UghPUYEtD pic.twitter.com/vJgAdtnqlG
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders, eyeing the convention, is willing to harm Hillary Clinton in the homestretch https://t.co/4aqSveLTqq pic.twitter.com/yFrkbGEudV
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 19, 2016
Kerry says will attend Paris conference on Palestinian-Israeli peace https://t.co/huFozu4MPk #ArabIsraeliConflict pic.twitter.com/kqGbjlkvMk
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 19, 2016
Iraq demands that Jordan extradite Saddam Hussein’s daughter https://t.co/FbCLYNjiL4 #MiddleEast pic.twitter.com/jRx74DsVLU
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 19, 2016
It’s been a difficult year for the “special relationship” between Britain and the U.S. https://t.co/tNSO9YEKYD pic.twitter.com/7Qpqb40Mhb
— Reuters Opinion (@ReutersOpinion) May 19, 2016