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Exploitation and Gender Inequality in the Elite ‘Global Party Circuit’: An Interview with Ashley Mea
Editors’ Note: This is the third installment of an interview series conducted in collaboration with the Stone Inequality Initiative at...
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Jun 8, 202214 min read


Ending the Pandemic: Addressing Global Covid-19 Vaccine Inequality
As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its second year, many countries are beginning to loosen some of their public health measures. Across...
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Mar 9, 20224 min read


High Poverty Schools can be High Performing
Public schools are responsible for educating all students; however, in poor and minority communities, they often don’t succeed. Students...
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Dec 19, 20205 min read


Bad Billionaires: How Dems Demonize Wealth Going into 2020
In late November, Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and billionaire, paid at least $30 million for a week’s worth of...
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Jan 8, 20206 min read


Time for a Check-Up: Reconsidering Physician Reimbursement Rates
The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency,...
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Apr 20, 20194 min read


A Corporate Obsession: Why the FCC is Failing to Bridge the Digital Divide
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Time is (Literally) Money: Using Timebanking to Rebuild Communities
In the crowded Democratic field for the 2020 Presidential primary, candidate Andrew Yang is certainly a long shot. He has no name...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


A New Deal for South Africa
The recent passing of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the anti-Apartheid’s most enduring figures, has served as a reminder of the...
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Aug 14, 20188 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


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


Crisis in Cape Town
Earth Day 2018 will take place in a time of great uncertainty. It is a day that means different things to different people. For some, the...
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Mar 8, 20186 min read


Stock Buybacks: Quietly Haunting the American Economy
Americans often decry the high rate of executive pay in this country. It is certainly true that American CEO’s are being paid more than...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read


Trust the Tap: Boosting Confidence in the Benefits of Tap Water
Only around half of Americans trust the water coming out of their faucets, according to a poll by the Associated Press. In light of...
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Nov 3, 20174 min read


A Capitalist Conundrum: Index Funds and Common Ownership
Upon their invention in the late 20th century, index funds revolutionized investing for the general public. They offer a low-fee,...
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Nov 3, 20175 min read


The Linguistic Colonialism of English
Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of...
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Apr 25, 20174 min read


Nickels and Dimes: The Criminalization of Rhode Island’s Poor
Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought...
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Apr 18, 201710 min read


A Panorama of Panama City
Panama City is an intersection. It lies between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; between jungles and man-made waterways; between colorful...
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Nov 16, 20166 min read


A New Look at School Funding Inequality
School funding in Pennsylvania is so unequal that the state nearly turned its entire tax system upside down trying to fix the situation...
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Dec 6, 20155 min read


Chicago State of Mind: How CBT is changing lives in inner-city Chicago
Three weeks after the King College Prep band members performed at President Obama’s second inauguration, they were mourning the loss of a...
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Nov 6, 201511 min read


Indigeneity, Horizontal Inequality and the Shortcomings of Peña Nieto’s Education Reform
Nestled in Mexico’s Santiago Valley, deep in the southern region of the country, lies Santiago Mexquititlán, a township of about ten...
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Aug 2, 20155 min read
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