Category: Stanford University

Justice Ginsburg laments partisanship at Stanford talk

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented partisanship in Congress during a talk at Stanford University on Monday and said she hoped it would return to an era when “it was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines.” Ginsburg did not address the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia or President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which could end up before the high court.

The Latest: Iranian researcher turned away, arrives at JFK

Lebanon’s National News Agency says airlines operating out of Beirut international airport have begun allowing residents of the seven majority Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban to… An Iranian researcher who had been prevented from coming to the United States to do research at Stanford University has arrived safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport Police have arrested a man in the strangulation of a New York City woman who had gone out for a run last summer and was found dead in a secluded marsh A 20-year-old man has been arraigned on murder charges in the strangulation death of a New York City woman out on a run last summer Travelers from the seven Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump are enjoying tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. now that the ban has been swept aside Travelers from the seven Muslim countries targeted by President … (more)

The Latest: Snickers cracks a joke about its own live ad

The scene depicts when Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch, r… Lebanon’s National News Agency says airlines operating out of Beirut international airport have begun allowing residents of the seven majority Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban to… An Iranian researcher who had been prevented from coming to the United States to do research at Stanford University has arrived safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport Police have arrested a man in the strangulation of a New York City woman who had gone out for a run last summer and was found dead in a secluded marsh A 20-year-old man has been arraigned on murder charges in the strangulation death of a New York City woman out on a run last summer Travelers from the seven Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump are enjoying tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. now that the ban has been swept … (more)

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Trump’s refugee order disgraceful, incompetent overreach Editorial The Sacramento Bee If any American value was served by President Donald Trump’s inhumane treatment of hundreds of ordinary people from Muslim-majority nations this weekend, we would like to know what it is. How sickening it was to watch Trump’s draconian executive order on refugees play out, indefinitely banning entry to Syrian refugees and suspending US travel for visa and, for a time, even green card holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Did fake news help elect Trump? Not likely, according to new research

“Fake news” stories favoring Donald Trump far exceeded those favoring Hillary Clinton but did not have a significant impact on the presidential election, concludes a new survey of social and other media consumption. The study, which also downplays the political impact of social media in general, is co-authored by economists Matthew Gentzkow of Stanford University and Hunt Allcott of New York University.

Why people believe fake news, explained

Why do so many Americans have trouble telling truth from fiction online? As humans, we’re wired to believe the worst. The controversy around “fake news” took on a new pall this month when a North Carolina man chose to investigate, gun in hand, a false online conspiracy theory that a Washington.

10 books on leadership to read in 2017

After an utterly dark and divisive year of political leadership, people will surely be looking for fresh professional inspiration in 2017: books that help us stick to our resolutions at work, that offer surprising and uplifting stories from other leaders, that provide lessons from history about consequential leaders, and books that simply give us ideas for working smarter, faster or better. To compile this year’s list of leadership books to watch for in the year ahead, we combed through publishers’ lists and picked a few that we believe will make an impact.