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Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds on the topic areas for the 2022 NSDA National Tournament. USX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Thursday and IX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Tuesday & Friday. This is meant to help extempers assemble resources to prepare for the competition in Louisville. This week we tackle USX topic area #5 on the executive branch.
The Department of Homeland Security took three weeks from announcing a board intended to combat disinformation to suspending it.
Former DHS leader Nina Jankowicz talks about the irony of an effort to combat disinformation being derailed by disinformation. https://t.co/TWsRKtaqNd
— NPR (@NPR) May 22, 2022
How do government affairs teams stay on top of the policy priorities most important to their industry? They use resources like our Biden executive order tracker, which you can preview here: https://t.co/JlpBhOO2TL pic.twitter.com/QeMJn2c9t8
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) May 12, 2022
A new report takes the U.S. Department of Defense to task for chronically underfunding researchers at HBCUs and other schools with large underrepresented student enrollments—and for failing to deliver on its repeated promises to do more. https://t.co/PhsfyjU6v8
— News from Science (@NewsfromScience) May 6, 2022