How many people live in the Islamic State territories?

How many people live in the Islamic State territories?

Six and a half million residents.

What is causing distress ?

What is causing distress ?

Uncertainty and complexity.

Why do small concessions generally lead to greater concessions?

Why do small concessions generally lead to greater concessions?

Because the receptor of the small concession knows that nothing is so morally flexible as a concession giver desperate to avoid tough choices.

How much money the average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns?

How much money the average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns?

 The average person 65 and older in the U.S. earns 77% of the income of the average citizen, up from 69% in 2008.

How to make a problem appear to be smaller than it really is?

How to make a problem appear to be smaller than it really is?

Rotating it.

How the U.S. is redistributing income within the family?

How the U.S. is redistributing income within the family?

 Shielding perks for well-off pensioners while reducing payments for those of working age.

What does it always suggest the least imperfect solution in human affairs?

What does it always suggest the least imperfect solution in human affairs?

History.

How to live on probability instead of certainty?

How to live on probability instead of certainty?

Making choices with no fear.

Why do large swaths of the populations in America and Europe feel alienated from their institutions or government?

Why do large swaths of the populations in America and Europe feel alienated from their institutions or government?

Because they are increasingly less dependent on elites for information, access, guidance, or platforms.

Why you will not be able to repair this?

Why you will not be able to repair this?

Because you have no idea why it is shattering.

What do you learn in America?

What do you learn in America?

Fighting like a hell over just about everything.

How to make a problem bigger and unbreakable in the U.S.?

How to make a problem bigger and unbreakable in the U.S.?

Embedding the problem into the system, and the bigger the system, bigger is the problem and harder is to break it.

Why no longer the best ideas are able to rise to the top?

Why no longer the best ideas are able to rise to the top?

 Because tough problems never turn themselves into easy solutions.

How does the education system work in the U.S.?

How does the education system work in the U.S.?

Rising high school graduation rates, dipping students’ skills and knowledge and widening of the gap between higher and lower-ability students; according The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.

Why those in power cannot develop novel policy solutions to economic inequality?

Why those in power cannot develop novel policy solutions to economic inequality?

 Because they do not understand technology and technology doesn't run on autopilot.

What is the percentage of over-the- counter medication use in the U.S.?

What is the percentage of over-the- counter medication use in the U.S.?


38%

How to make your project knowable and understood?

How to make your project knowable and understood?

Rejecting peace as a matter of principle.

How to emerge as a champion of the dispossessed?

How to emerge as a champion of the dispossessed?

 Bringing to light frustrations, mistrust, and grievances.

How much money emotions can destroy?

How much money emotions can destroy?

$40.6 billion.

Yahoo turned down a $44.6 billion hostile bid by Microsoft in 2008.

The bids to buy Yahoo ’s operating business are today around $4 billion.

Why is equality of opportunity an utopia?

Why is equality of opportunity an utopia?

Because you don't choose your parents.

How to agree to talks to try to formally end a War?

How to agree to talks to try to formally end a War?
 
Dropping longstanding conditions.