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Policing Priorities: The Disparity Between Chicago’s Education and Police Funding
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has...
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Jun 12, 20184 min read


Education Behind Bars: How Education is Failing Incarcerated Youth
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of...
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Jun 2, 20186 min read


The Unions Strike Back: Janus, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and the Future of Organized Labor
The echoes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the nation’s largest armed labor uprising, still reverberate throughout West Virginia’s...
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Jun 2, 20186 min read


The Lament Over Jerusalem: The Consequences of the Greek Orthodox Church’s Land Sale Policy in
One hundred years ago, Sir Edmund Allenby and the soldiers of Britain’s 10th Light Horse Regiment passed through Jaffa Gate, an imposing...
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Jun 2, 20185 min read


Locked Up Litigation: The Case for Repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act
Today, over two million people sit trapped in US prisons. The War on Drugs—which increased mandatory minimum sentences, stiffened...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Lay Down Your Arms: Why the FARC should be Included in the Colombian Democratic Process
Colombia is facing one of its most turbulent election cycles in recent years. This is the first vote in which the Fuerza Armada...
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May 28, 20185 min read


Software Schooling: The Value of Computer Science in Early Education
Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly...
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May 28, 20185 min read


Model Learning: Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap
In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools. This demographic shift,...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Bridging the Gap: Why China’s Hukou System Needs Reform
China’s meteoric economic rise has relied on hundreds of millions of rural migrants. These migrants make incredible sacrifices for the...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Franco’s Phantoms: Why Spain can’t bury its Authoritarian Past
Tucked away in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains northwest of Madrid lies a monumental reminder of Europe’s authoritarian past: el Valle...
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May 28, 20186 min read


Zoned Out: How a Bipartisan Investment Bill is Ripe for Abuse
Hidden within the 2018 tax reform bill is a provision that could reinvent development financing across the country. The Investment in...
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May 28, 20183 min read


Let Them Eat Cheese: How Vulnerable Populations Pay for the US Cheese Surplus
One hundred feet underground, temperatures normally hover around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. In this man-made cave, however, it’s a cool 36....
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May 28, 20185 min read


Legislating Letters: Kazakhstan’s Alphabetical Experiment
Only one army can march into a city with a measly squadron of around 26 soldiers and orchestrate a coup without firing a single bullet....
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Apr 19, 20184 min read


Influencing Ads: Rejecting Tech Companies’ Push for Self-Regulation
In 2012, an estimated $160 million was spent on digital political ads. By 2016, that number had jumped to $1.4 billion. Over the last few...
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Apr 18, 20183 min read


Full Shelves, Empty Stomachs: Socioeconomic Interventions to Address Food Deserts
The term “food desert” conjures up a distinct image: an urban area void of supermarkets, where gardens are rare and the only place to buy...
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Apr 18, 20185 min read


A Seat at the Table: Addressing Providence’s Lack of Restaurant Diversity
In August 2017, Black Sheep opened its doors to the Providence community. The restaurant’s contributions to the local food scene were...
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Apr 18, 20183 min read


Lab to Table: The Promising Future of Artificial Meat
In the United States, we both love animals and love to eat them. But even as people grow more aware of the questionable practices of the...
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Apr 18, 20185 min read


Mutually Assured Disruption: Small Nuclear Weapons are a Big Problem
Donald Trump’s Twitter flexing might have you think otherwise, but it’s not the size of your nuclear weapon that matters: It’s whether...
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Apr 18, 20185 min read


Blood Avocados: Cracking Down on Cartels
Last year, millionaire real estate mogul Tim Gurner told 60 Minutes Australia that millennials are blowing potential savings on “buying...
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Apr 18, 20185 min read


A Faith Repressed: The Future of Chinese Christians
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in China in 1949, about a million Christians lived in the country. In contrast to the...
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Apr 18, 20184 min read
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