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US Foreign Policy and the Invasion in Ukraine from a Human Rights Perspective: An Interview with Kei
Ambassador Keith M. Harper was US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council from 2014 to 2017 based in...
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May 22, 202210 min read


Disinformation and Democracy: An Interview with Young Mie Kim
Young Mie Kim is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow at the University of...
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May 18, 20229 min read


Wealth, Philanthropy, and Regular People: An Interview with Nicholas Kulish
Editors’ Note: This is the second installment of an interview series conducted in collaboration with the Stone Initiative on Inequality...
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May 18, 202213 min read


When US Counterterrorism Means Theft
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on February 11 declaring that he intends to split $7 billion of Afghan money currently held...
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May 18, 20225 min read


What Are We Really Achieving Here? How Cancel Culture Can Reinforce Privilege
Each story follows a similar arc. Someone, often a public figure, makes a controversial statement that goes viral. People get mad online....
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May 18, 20225 min read


American Storytelling in the 21st Century: An Interview with Ken Burns
The late historian Stephen Ambrose said, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” An American documentary...
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May 10, 20226 min read


The Dark History of Providence’s Water Supply
Strangers streamed into the milling villages within Scituate, Rhode Island in the summer of 1915. Arriving by train and in jet-black...
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May 9, 20225 min read


Why the War against Ukraine Is an Opportunity to Pass Climate Change Legislation
Russia’s war against Ukraine has led to a chain of reactions that pushed many countries, including the United States, towards increasing...
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May 4, 20225 min read


How to Amend the Colonial Expedition for Magic Mushrooms
The historic tale of conquistador Hernán Cortes’s encounter with Aztec emperor Moctezuma is one often shared to recount the origins of...
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May 4, 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


Dark Money: An Interview with Kimberly Reed
Editors’ Note: This is the first installment of an interview series conducted in collaboration with the Stone Initiative on Inequality at...
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May 4, 20228 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


Looking to the Future in Louisville, KY: An Interview with Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is the leading 2022 Democratic candidate for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. An attorney by training, Greenberg has served...
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May 3, 20226 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


Memo to Some: America is Not the Only Imperialist State
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) released a statement in February directly addressing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling...
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May 2, 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


Shurtleff v. Boston: America’s Struggle With Secularism
Children in the United States are often taught that most colonial settlers left Britain to avoid religious persecution. This classic...
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May 1, 20225 min read


When They Go Low, We Go…
A decade ago, Republicans swept the 2010 midterm elections, flipping 63 House seats and a staggering 720 state legislative seats across...
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Apr 28, 20225 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


How Ratifying UNCLOS Can Help the US Counter China’s Aggressive Activities and Unlawful Maritime Cla
The US State Department recently concluded that the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) maritime claims in the South China Sea contravene...
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Apr 26, 20225 min read
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