June 24, 2019

Mexico is a prop in President Trump’s political narrative

Former Mexican Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan shares advice to the Mexican leadership on how to respond to President Trump’s “reckless and suicidal” undermining of the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

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More than half of the world’s poor are children

Experts from the World Data Lab find that while child poverty is declining across the world, there are still 301 million children living on less than $1.90 per day, with the vast majority in Africa.

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What are the proper limits on police use of facial recognition?

“It’s one thing for facial recognition to misidentify a friend on Facebook; it is quite another for it to misidentify a suspect.” Nila Bala and Caleb Watney discuss the challenges posed by facial recognition technology and outline how government agencies can establish safeguards to prevent abuse and protect privacy.

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