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American Samoa: Can the Home of the Brave Help More Lands Be Free?
As President Joe Biden seeks to build a Cabinet that “looks like America,” one nomination stands out as especially significant: Deb...
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Apr 6, 20226 min read


Advancing Maternal Health Equity: Saving Mothers Locally and Globally
Every year, preventable maternal deaths demonstrate striking disparities within our global health systems. In 2017, 295,000 women died...
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Apr 6, 20225 min read


Antiwork, and the Politics of Organization
From December 2020 to January 2022, r/antiwork was one of the fastest-growing communities, or subreddits, on the social network Reddit....
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Apr 6, 20225 min read


Castillo’s Turmoil: How Institutions Hamper Peru’s New Leader
“Open the door so the next bicentennial is full of hope, with a future and a vision for a country in which we all enjoy and eat from the...
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Mar 25, 20224 min read


Dimming Lights: Mexico’s Energy Reform Amendments
In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law,...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read


Fear and Loathing in Central Pennsylvania: School Boards and the Polarization of American Politics
On a Wednesday night last August, the Shippensburg Area School Board held a special meeting. The nine members sat behind a table in the...
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Mar 22, 20227 min read


Afghanistan: Ending an Aimless War
In August 2021, the United States concluded the tumultuous process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan—a process that was...
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Mar 21, 20225 min read


The Allure of Hidden Bipartisanship: The Flaws of Secret Congress Theory
Since the 2020 elections, gridlock in the United States Senate has transformed from a pressing political problem to a fact of political...
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Mar 16, 20225 min read


Ditching Nord Stream for Nuclear
When hostilities between Russia and Ukraine erupted just a few weeks ago, NATO member states took measures to deter crisis by sending...
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Mar 15, 20225 min read


Why Canada’s Freedom Convoy Should Be a Warning to the Country
Almost no one, least of all Canadians, expected that something like this could happen in our country. A year ago, I packed up my...
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Mar 15, 20227 min read


The Foreign Service, Diplomacy, and the US-China Fight for Primacy: An Interview with Chas Freeman
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired career diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from...
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Mar 14, 202211 min read


We Need to Regulate Social Media Content Moderation, But We Can’t Just Eliminate Section 230(c).
The dangerous facilitation of disinformation and misinformation online is now a defining characteristic of social media platforms....
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Mar 14, 20224 min read


The Misunderstood Definition of Book Banning
Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 describes a dystopian future in which books are outlawed and burned. In the book, one character...
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Mar 14, 20225 min read


Politics and Prosperity: An inquiry into Hong Kong’s future as Asia’s premiere economic hub
A series of intense pro-democracy protests took Hong Kong by storm in the latter half of 2019 following the introduction of an...
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Mar 14, 20224 min read


Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women
When you open your phone to send a GIF, what image surfaces in your mind? What media best encapsulates your feelings? For many people,...
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Mar 10, 20225 min read


The Politics of Nation Switching
This past month, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and the 2022 Winter Olympics have dominated the world of sports media. Not only are...
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Mar 9, 20224 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


Why Liberals Shouldn’t Celebrate the Australian Government’s Deportation of Novak Djokovic
Original illustration by Elizabeth Long Many liberals cheered the deportation of Novak Djokovic, then the top-ranked male tennis player...
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Mar 8, 20225 min read


Decoding Speech: The implications of giving computer code First Amendment protections
Today in the United States, anyone equipped with the right string of 0s and 1s can 3D print an unregistered and untraceable assault...
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Mar 7, 20225 min read


Dancing Russia Goodbye: Ukraine, Russia, and the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
As President Biden picked up the phone to call Vladimir Putin on February 12, 2022, hundreds of Ukrainians gathered in Kyiv to witness...
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Mar 4, 20225 min read
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