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Plastic Surge: The Emirates’ new nose
Shockingly, Beverly Hills is no longer the place plastic surgeons want to be. That dubious honor instead goes to Dubai, the young...
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Mar 12, 20154 min read


The More You GMO
In a nation where 75 percent of processed food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Vermont reignited an already contentious...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read


War Crimes and Punishment: Why Is The ICC Targeting Africa?
Since its establishment in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has heard 22 cases and indicted 36 individuals, all of them from...
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Mar 12, 20159 min read


Missing The Point
I am sitting across the table from Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins, a documentarian and historian of the Fox Point Cape Verdean community with...
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Mar 12, 201512 min read


A Mayor and a Modem
The amazing thing about the dollar menu in a New York City McDonald’s is not that one can buy a meal for a dollar, but that free WiFi...
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Mar 12, 20154 min read


What is the Best Way to Provide a Social Safety Net?
The Positives of Private Philanthropy Story by Benjamin Koatz Across the country, private organizations aren’t waiting for big government...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read


License to Bill
Nevada requires emergency medical technicians to complete 26 days of training before obtaining a license — a pretty standard state...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read


Apocalypse Then and Now: America is taking lessons from Vietnam in its war on ISIL
Half a century ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a decision that still haunts the American memory today. In February 1965, Johnson...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read


Dr. Safelove
We cannot afford to lose another decade,” warned the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in April 2014, explaining...
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Mar 12, 20154 min read


Maid in Hong Kong: The dark side of the maid trade
On most days, Central is Hong Kong’s swarming business district: Thousands of suits and pencil skirts transform its streets into a sea of...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read


Refuge Denied: The tides are turning on Australia’s immigrants.
The Human Rights Watch World Report recently condemned Australia’s “draconian new policies” towards asylum seekers and refugees. The...
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Mar 11, 20156 min read


Unfree Parking: Aer Lingus’ future is up in the air.
Call it the luck of the Irish. Shares of Dublin-based airline Aer Lingus plummeted this February on speculation that the Irish government...
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Mar 11, 20157 min read


Six Decades Later
Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read


Violence Without Borders
In just the last year, there has been a 117 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied children under 12 apprehended while...
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Dec 3, 201412 min read


An Uncharitable Truth
‘‘Here’s how to tell if your company is a philanthropic hypocrite,” the Guardian’s Suzanne McGee fumed in early October, following news...
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Dec 3, 201411 min read


Undergraduate, Overpriced
A Brown University undergraduate degree in 1960 cost $45,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, tuition costs around $190,000 — enough...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read


When The Swedish Fish
There is something rotten in the seas of Sweden. An unidentified swimming object was confirmed mid-November, nearly a month after Swedish...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read


Emptying the Full House
The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest...
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Dec 3, 20146 min read


Peru’s Dark and Shining Nights
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 by the Special Criminal Court of Peru’s Supreme Court to the maximum...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read


Raters of the Lost Art
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system —...
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Dec 3, 20147 min read
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