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Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Leaves Hazaras Uniquely Vulnerable
In recent weeks, #StopHazaraGenocide has raced to the top of social media users’ feeds, drawing upwards of six million tweets. The...
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Nov 13, 20225 min read
Parasites, Paradise: US Military Installations in Micronesia
In 2021, the United States announced plans to construct two new military installations in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and...
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Nov 13, 20224 min read
Iranian Citizens Approaching a Revolutionary Breaking Point
On September 13, Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, was detained in Tehran by the Iranian morality police. Three days later, she died in...
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Nov 8, 20224 min read
Decolonizing America: American Samoa
The United States of America is still a colonial empire. What began as colonies and island possessions around the world have now simply...
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Nov 6, 20225 min read
China’s Population Crisis May Be Its Achilles’ Heel
If you randomly select five people across the globe, statistically, one of them will be Chinese. According to the Seventh National Census...
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Nov 4, 20227 min read
The Rising Tide: Floods in Pakistan Demonstrate the Need for a Higher Level of Journalism on Climate
As Hurricane Ian pounded Florida, we in the United States were once again reminded of the devastating impact of climate change. With...
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Nov 3, 20225 min read
The Fall of the ANC: What a Change in Power Means for South Africa’s Future
In 1994, the world applauded as Nelson Mandela won the presidential election in South Africa. His landmark victory signified the end of...
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Oct 31, 20226 min read
Hand in Your Earrings and Pick Up Your Flag! Xi Jinping’s Marrying of Chinese Patriotism and Traditi
In 2019, some Chinese viewers relaxing at home may have been surprised upon turning on their televisions. The ears of some of the men on...
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Oct 31, 20224 min read
Iranian Protests, the Religious State, and American Interventionism
The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian, in Tehran on September 16, 2022, has triggered a series of protests and...
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Oct 27, 20224 min read
A Question of Vulnerability: Shanghai & China’s Other Favorite Children
Images of the 2022 Shanghai Lockdown sent ripples through the world. The lockdown — one which brutally dragged on for over two months —...
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Oct 20, 20224 min read
The French Election: Marine Le Pen’s Late Surge against the Candidate of Apathy
As the French election cycle came to a close this April, Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron emerged victorious with 58.5 percent...
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May 30, 20224 min read
Russia and the New Disinformation Regime
As Putin carries out a military campaign against Ukraine, he’s also driving one of disinformation. Russia has called for the...
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May 30, 20224 min read
Politicians Stand By as Lebanon Teeters on Economic Collapse
Serena Fadel ’25 does not recognize the streets of her hometown in Beirut, Lebanon. Crumbling infrastructure, the result of the August...
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May 26, 20225 min read
Why International Governance Will Fail Ukraine
“If there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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May 24, 20225 min read
Burying the Hatchet in South Korea’s Thousand-Year Turf War
This past March, South Koreans elected former anti-corruption prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol as their next president. Yoon, an opposition...
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May 4, 20224 min read
“Giữ Gìn Sự Trong Sáng Của Tiếng Việt”: Vietnamese Accent Discrimination At Home and Abroad
I would like to acknowledge the support and inspiration of Vietnamese Professor/Visiting Lecturer Trần Diễm Trang from the East Asian...
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May 3, 20225 min read
Ukrainian Sacrifice and the American Glorification of War Death
Social media and online news have been flooded with tragic images of carnage, destruction, and human suffering in the short time since...
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May 3, 20224 min read
The Privatization and Profit of a Global Health Crisis
Over the past year, the developed world has seen rising Covid-19 vaccination rates and, subsequently, felt an increasing sense of...
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May 1, 20224 min read
Putin’s War: Mixed Motives
Eyes glued to the screen, the world watches in horror as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags into April. As people speculate how the...
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Apr 27, 20225 min read
Sanctions May Not Be the Solution The West Thinks They Are
Less than two weeks into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia became the target of 2,778 new sanctions—including the previous sanctions...
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Apr 25, 20225 min read
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