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A threat to Iran’s rich cultural heritage
Brian Daniels and Richard Leventhal of the Museum were among the signers of a letter about the administration’s threats of retaliation against Iran by striking cultural sites. “If carried out, this threat would constitute a war crime under international instruments such as the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which the United States has joined,” they and others wrote.
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Amazon.com staff warned over criticizing company’s climate policy
Brian Berkey of the Wharton School said that even if other companies have communications policies preventing employees from publicly criticizing their employers, that doesn’t make Amazon’s such policy right. “Speaking out about what one thinks the company should be doing doesn’t seem like the sort of thing companies should retaliate against by threatening to fire people or implementing policies that have that potential effect,” he said.
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Democrats' worries grow as ObamaCare court fight drags on
Allison Hoffman of the Law School commented on a recent federal appeals court ruling on a case that threatens the Affordable Care Act. “This case is so ridiculous,” she said. “The fact that it is still alive today makes me more worried.”
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Rep. Maxine Waters thought she was talking to Greta Thunberg. It was actually Russian trolls
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said pranks pulled on U.S. government officials by Russian trolls accomplish two things: “The first [goal] is adding info to a political dialogue in which discrediting one side is useful to Russia. The second is being able to make the argument to the rest of the world that U.S. leaders are easily duped. Putin’s interests are served when U.S. leaders are made to look foolish in the eyes of the world.”
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Fed governors’ influence at central bank has declined, paper says
Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School authored a paper that found the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors has less influence on the central bank following moves by the bank’s presidents and chairs. “This institutional drift does not mean that the Fed is not still an effective central bank. It does mean, however, that it runs a democracy deficit that Congress had hoped to eliminate in the Fed’s legislative design,” he said.
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How to improve company culture? It’s simple, make employees feel like they matter
David Yaden of the School of Arts and Sciences co-led research aimed at clarifying what it means to “matter” in the workplace. Their work found that “achievement was tied more closely than recognition to self-efficacy, which is a central construct in the organizational mattering framework. On the other hand, recognition tracked more closely with manager status, promotions, and raises than did achievement, a nod to the importance of ensuring one’s good work is noticed and appreciated by coworkers.”
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Can $500 a month change a city? Stockton tests universal basic income
Amy Castro Baker of the School of Social Policy & Practice discussed her research on a basic-income experiment in Stockton, Calif.
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Google to end use of ‘double Irish’ as tax loophole set to close
Chris Sanchirico of the Law School said little is known about how specific companies have adjusted their tax arrangements in response the impending closure of the “double Irish” tax loophole. “Based on what we have been able to see in the past, there is no reason to think that planning [by multinationals] hasn’t already evolved several generations beyond the kind of classic double Irish that is now officially coming to an end,” he said.
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‘It’s creepy’: Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
Reggie Govan of the Law School spoke about federal officials’ efforts to track the origins of drones seen flying over Colorado and Nebraska. “Like in many other areas of drone regulation, the statutory and regulatory framework is lagging the technology,” he said.
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Enthusiasm, hope, and ‘old guard’ warnings follow naming of Philly’s first black female police head
Vice President Maureen Rush of Public Safety commented on the appointment of Philadelphia’s new police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw. When Rush started her law enforcement career in 1976, she said, she “would never have imagined that we would have had a woman commissioner, never mind a black woman commissioner, in the future.”