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Changing Hearts and Laws: The Political Efficacy of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
The last three years on Twitter have been dominated by the growing import and presence of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, an...
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Nov 17, 20155 min read


Justifying Crimea: President Putin Invokes R2P
I’m certainly a little late to the party on Ukraine news – leading up to Russia’s bold annexation of Crimea, Ukraine was gripped for...
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Apr 11, 20143 min read


Uncomfortable Truths In Brazilian Malls
What happens when 8,000 people decide to go to the mall together? This is not the tagline of a B movie about Black Friday. Instead, it is...
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Feb 27, 20146 min read


The Right Wing Revolution
Last Wednesday February 12, Venezuela celebrated the National Youth Day. For the whole day, official radio and TV channels transmitted...
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Feb 18, 20144 min read


Multi-Viral: A New Kind of Protest Song
Protest songs have always been an important mode of political discourse. Easily produced and disseminated, good protest songs and the...
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Nov 18, 20134 min read


Saying No To Napolitano: The Student’s Right to Vote?
While it was an issue that originally flared up some months ago, the controversy surrounding the appointment of Janet Napolitano,...
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Oct 10, 20135 min read
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