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DUBAI: The quality of youth is said to determine the kind of future a nation will have. Experience shows that high levels of youth participation in a country’s workforce and political discourse can have a positive impact on societal development. Sadly, only a few Arab countries offer their youth these …

By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER  11/21/2019 06:01 AM EST Presented by Amazon The last scheduled public impeachment hearing begins at 9 a.m. Thursday with testimony from David Holmes and Fiona Hill. | Doug Mills/Pool photo via AP DRIVING THE DAY FROM A HOUSE INTELLIGENCE DEMOCRAT: “Buckle up. [Wednesday] will …

(Illustration by Mary Esposito; Lauren Duca: Photo by Jena Cumbo; Women’s March: AP / Paul Beaty) If a media company like Condé Nast is capable of political action, then it is only what it hasn’t done that counts. Vogue has not put the sitting first lady on the cover or …

Woodland author and Sacramento State professor Daniel Kirsch will present his latest non-fiction book “Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher Education and the Political Economy of the Future,” at the Avid Reader Friday. Kirsch will be speaking at the Davis bookstore starting at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. …

Since 2010, being a teen has turned into a gradually more online existence that has spawned an entirely new generation of activists, idols, and pressures. Along with unprecedented connectivity, teens have faced turbulent political environments alongside widespread violence and tragedy. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. Teens in 2010 were some of …

It seemed like a great solution to a bad problem. Plagued by years of cuts in state funding, UC San Diego threw open its doors to Chinese students who were willing to pay three times as much tuition as California residents to attend the prestigious La Jolla school. The money …

Tashi Dema The need for temporary special measures (TSMs) to enhance women’s representation in leadership and elected offices has once again surfaced. While resource persons for the Bhutan Women Parliamentary Caucus (BWPC) orientation workshop towards common understanding and strategising for gender equality in Bhutan for parliamentarians, politicians, civil society and …

Part of this disbelief in the pay gap, and in media reports of it, may stem from confusion over how the gender wage gap is presented and discussed. “I think some people get it wrong that [the pay gap] is all about discrimination against women, and another group of people …

Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday in an interview on “CBS This Morning” that “there are very few people” his father can “fully trust.” “Now, there are people that are doing great jobs,” he said. “I think Mike Pompeo’s doing a great job. I think a lot of his Cabinet’s doing …

Donald Trump’s presidency has thrust the United States into plenty of unprecedented territory and it could again if the brash, testosterone-fueled campaign he is sculpting becomes the first featuring an impeached incumbent chief executive. Political insiders from both parties, echoed by nonpartisan experts, said all summer that forecasting the 2020 …