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Mad Cow: How bride-price inflation is stoking ethnic violence in South Sudan
Inter-tribal clashes are a major contributing factor to instability in South Sudan, so it is no surprise that an increase in violent...
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Apr 16, 20216 min read


Eviction Affliction: Private security companies and demolitions in South Africa
Amid calls to stay home during the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rodgers Mathebulo’s house was demolished, his belongings looted,...
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Apr 16, 20215 min read


Welcome to the Big Top: How celebrities, the media, and unbridled corruption have impacted Brazil
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza’s life sounds like something out of a daytime soap opera. The Brazilian gospel singer, who first rose to...
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Apr 16, 20214 min read


The Witching Hour: Accusations of witchcraft are a source of torture and terror for women and childr
Beds are running out at Ek’Abana, a shelter for abandoned children nestled in Bukavu, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the...
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Apr 16, 20215 min read


Over the Rainbow: The future of no promo homo laws in public education
“Queer people exist in the rural South,” Annabeth Mellon told NBC News while describing her experience as a bisexual student in the...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


Twitter, Don’t Do Your Thing: Anti-Doxxing legislation is urgently needed to stop this out-of-
On a sleepy Monday night right after Christmas, a post surfaced in a Facebook group frequented by conservatives in the town of Parker,...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


The Wretched Refused: How US asylum policy has failed Venezuelan economic refugees
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


The Great Equalizer: How a constitutional right to education could save our schools
The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not...
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Apr 6, 20214 min read


A Generic Solution: Suspension of patent rights for Covid-19 vaccines could save countless lives
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical...
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Apr 5, 20215 min read


Delivery Room Advocacy: How doulas can mitigate the effects of medical sexism and racism
The internet is littered with harrowing stories of childbirth gone awry. In The New York Times, Tara Haelle chronicles Tamoyia Hashim’s...
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Mar 15, 20215 min read


Alien Justice: How a 200-year-old law remains deeply relevant for US foreign relations
If you’ve ever had a Crunch Bar, there’s a chance a child slave in Côte d’Ivoire produced the cocoa. As illegal as that sounds, the...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


Who Bears the Consequences? Discontinuity in the protection of Bears Ears National Monument
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


It Could Be Free Free Free: How the tax preparation industry is cheating taxpayers out of billions o
The days leading up to April 15 are filled with panic for many Americans who, upon realizing that their tax returns are due, must search...
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Mar 14, 20214 min read


We Should Chat: How online disinformation impacts the democratic participation of first-generation
“George Soros backed the violence in Charlottesville.” “Liberal media threatens to violently destroy Mount Rushmore.” You have probably...
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Mar 14, 20216 min read


The Donkey in the Room: How the DSCC is undermining the democratic process
Max Pushkin ’22.5 and Ben Lipson ’22.5 are two of the co-founders of Make Room, a grassroots political action committee. On a cloudy June...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Big Brother’s Rude Awakening: How data ought to be protected in the age of the internet
Americans have prized individual liberty since the nation’s founding. Naturally, many people are suspicious of the government collecting...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


The Doctor is In: Applications of telehealth for rural populations
For most Americans in suburban or urban areas, a trip to the doctor is usually as innocuous as a quick 20-minute car ride. But for 20...
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Jan 8, 20214 min read


An Act of God: How pandemic-era judicial inconsistencies are harming small businesses
By the end of the year, the words “unprecedented,” “unusual,” and “difficult” will probably no longer mean much in our public parlance....
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Jan 8, 20216 min read


Bordering on Extinction: Protecting the biodiversity of our border regions
In California, just miles from the United States-Mexico border, a Quino checkerspot butterfly rests on the stem of a low-growing shrub....
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Jan 8, 20215 min read
A Low-Carbon Behemoth: What China’s renewable energy apparatus means for global energy politics
In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to the United Nations General Assembly that China would achieve carbon neutrality by...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read
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