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Disability Justice on College Campuses
Last summer, the Justice Department found that Brown had violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying...
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Oct 31, 20213 min read


Still Recording in Syria: The Future of Journalism under the Assad Regime
The documentary has always been the global community’s preferred medium of political exposé. Even devotees to the masterworks of...
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Oct 9, 20184 min read


Titans of Tech: Regulating Monopolies in the Digital Age
The United States is still haunted by the memories of Gilded Age monopolies: Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Vanderbilt’s New York Central...
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Dec 13, 20176 min read


Seeds of the Silicon Savannah: Supporting Homegrown Talent in the Heart of Africa’s Tech Indus
The landscape of technological innovation in sub-Saharan Africa has been aptly dubbed the “Silicon Savannah.” The IT sector in the region...
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Dec 13, 20174 min read


Technology’s Blind Spots: Affordable Eye Care and the Proliferation of Tech
Around the world today, 217 million individuals suffer from untreated but correctable visual impairment. Those in the more developed...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


DNA Discrimination: Fixing the Fears of Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is one of the most groundbreaking technologies of the modern age. The advent of human genome sequencing has expanded...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Code Red: Liability and the Case for Regulating Code
As technology’s impact expands, the consequences of security vulnerabilities grow steeper. In 2016, the software testing company...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Turning Off the Tap: Hong Kong’s Reliance On Chinese Water
For several years, Hong Kong has been a city in political turmoil, its population torn between identifying with Chinese authorities and...
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Nov 29, 20176 min read


Downstream Downturn: How Hydropower in Laos May Choke Vietnam
In the mountains of Tibet, Asia’s sixth-longest river shares its headwaters with two of China’s most important. But the Mekong River,...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read


A Poisoned Well: Rhode Island’s Trouble With Lead
Americans everywhere on the political spectrum agree: Today, equality of opportunity is more a dream than a reality. Almost two-thirds of...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read


After the Flood: How the US Government Exacerbates Natural Disasters
Americans tend to think of massive hurricanes and the havoc that they wreak as once-in-a-lifetime disasters. Sensationalist news coverage...
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Nov 3, 20176 min read


Watershed Warzones: The Weaponization of Water
On a brisk March morning in Washington last year, US officials announced that they were bringing criminal charges against seven Iranian...
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Nov 3, 20173 min read


Bitumen Blues: How Tar Sands Are Challenging Leadership and Morals in Canada
“Sunny ways” has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s post-election mantra since he assumed the office in 2015. But his...
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Apr 18, 20175 min read


Breaking the Curse: Exploring a New Model to Break Nigeria’s Resource Curse
Changes in oil prices are concerning to many Americans, but for Alaskans these shifts take on a special meaning: the size of an annual...
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Apr 18, 20176 min read


No Vacancy: How Cemeteries Can Respond to Dwindling Space
By the late 1820s, London’s future seemed all but assured. The capital of a sprawling empire, it was the richest and most populous city...
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Apr 18, 20175 min read


Made in China, Filmed in China
With $40.9 million in ticket sales on its first day, the Chinese film “The Mermaid” broke global box office records in February of this...
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May 2, 20168 min read


Midnight Train to Addis Ababa
On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t,...
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May 2, 201612 min read


Saving Nemo
In December of last year, two boats chartered by the environmental vigilante group Sea Shepherd, the Bob Barker and the Sam Simon,...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read


Penny for Your Vote?
The community members of Villa Soldati, a slum on the southwest end of Buenos Aires’ sprawling outskirts, are stuck between a rock and a...
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Dec 8, 20155 min read


Stripped of Rights
Red had had enough. Casa Diablo, the vegan Portland strip club where she danced, had crossed one too many lines. The daily, unchecked...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read
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