NBC News, Atlantic magazine
Health, education and business contributing journalist for NBC News and the Today show, she also writes for The Atlantic
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Jacoba Urist
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FROM Jacoba Urist
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Is College Really Harder to Get Into than It Used to Be? All over the country, high school graduates are grinding their teeth over where to enroll in college. But what about getting those acceptance letters in the first place? If you didn't get higher SAT score this year or boast a better GPA than you did in the past, you wouldn't get into the same college. That's a widespread perception that calls for analysis, according to Jacoba Urist. She's a writer for the Atlantic and contributor to NBC News for health, education and business.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?