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Italian Brain Drain
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Music Fit for a Kingpin: How popular culture is redefining cartels’ social role
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the...
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Mar 16, 20168 min read


No Country for Yemen: Reevaluating US military strategy in the Middle East
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


The Socialist Network: Why China’s proposed credit rating system is anything but credible
China’s citizens are no strangers to being monitored by, well, strangers. Since the Mao era, the government has maintained the dang’an...
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Annie, Forget Your Gun: Reducing 30,000 Deaths to 0
Gun violence takes 30,000 American lives a year, while our nation’s political progress on the issue remains in a troubling state of...
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Mar 16, 20169 min read


Exposing Rampant Lead Poisoning in US Infastructure
When Tia came home from the doctor’s, she was in a panic. Her two children had lead poisoning from tap water. Every time the family...
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Mar 16, 201611 min read


Live Fast, Die Young: SLCPs do it well
Trying to stop human-caused climate change is like trying to stop a speeding bus; you need to slow it down first. Carbon dioxide already...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


Horse-Drawn Catastrophe: How Bill de Blasio’s campaign promises galloped away
In a city where over 58,000 homeless people roam the streets, it’s strange that Mayor Bill de Blasio has supported allocating $25 million...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


Red Lights, Camera, Inaction: Evaluating failing transportation policy
While whirring technological progress drives the US economy, the technological progress in our streets is a little more stop-and-go. In...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


All Work and No Pay: How employers exploit Rhode Island’s low-wage workers
Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Major Laser: Investigating lasers’ potential in the US military
Characterized by descriptions of flying cars and climate-controlled cities, most 20th century predictions about the modern world seem...
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Mar 16, 20165 min read


Reforming Caucuses
When most Americans think about choosing a party’s presidential nominee, they likely imagine voting booths and secret ballots, not...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


Free-to-Prey: Candy Crush is more like gambling than you think
As politicians continue the battle against gambling addiction by regulating casinos and online poker, a new mobile gaming addiction has...
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Internally Displaced, Externally Ignored: The escalating global problem of IDPs
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have been forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, human rights...
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Dec 13, 20156 min read


Rite and Left: Liberalism and the Church in 21st Century America
Contrary to popular belief, the socio-political influence of the church in the United States is not limited to the religious right. As...
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Dec 12, 20154 min read


Paul Ryan the Parliamentarian
The sheer mechanics of the Speaker’s election process help explain why the role has functionally developed into its current iteration. In...
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Dec 12, 20157 min read


Grounded Giant: Reforms at Air France Stall Despite Soaring Debt Problems
The Air France dispute itself centers on the company’s efforts to cut costs and reduce its crippling debt. In the first half of 2015...
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Dec 12, 20159 min read


A Wrinkle In Time
While warping time can make for good science fiction, the simple act of turning the hands of a clock has borne great significance for...
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Dec 9, 20153 min read


Reconstituting Nepal
Political tremors are nothing new to Nepal. As the country has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past few decades, altercations...
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Dec 9, 20156 min read


Now You Teach Me Now You Don’t
Corruption in Afghanistan may not come as much of a surprise, but the country is far from the only one in the developing world afflicted...
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Dec 9, 20159 min read
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