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Metacognition and Asian American Activism: An Interview with Lisa Son
Lisa Son is a professor of cognitive psychology at Barnard College in New York City. Her research centers on metacognition, optimal...
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Nov 6, 20219 min read


Pennsylvania’s Senate Race is a Litmus Test for the Nation
Last October, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) announced that he would not be seeking re-election at the end of his term in 2022. Now an open...
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Nov 3, 20214 min read


Principle & The Parliamentarian: Democrats Need to Play More Aggressively, and Firing the Senat
A Republican Senate Majority Leader called her “one of of [the Senate’s] most dedicated floor staffers” and praised “her dedication and...
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Nov 2, 20216 min read


Submarine Diplomacy: AUKUS, and the Reshuffling of Alliances
On September 15th 2021, Australia, the UK and the US signed perhaps one of the most consequential defense pacts in recent history. The...
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Nov 2, 20214 min read


Protectionism: Bipartisanship, for Better or for Worse
When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he immediately sought to undo much of his predecessor’s agenda. Indeed, President Biden’s...
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Nov 1, 20215 min read


Not So Nice: Why Canada’s Environmental Racism Crisis is Cause for Reconsidering its National Identi
If the first thing you see when you picture Canada is a lush, progressive, free healthcare utopia, you would not be alone. The country’s...
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Nov 1, 20216 min read


Disability Justice on College Campuses
Last summer, the Justice Department found that Brown had violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying...
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Oct 31, 20213 min read


The Right to an Attorney: An American Myth
Jose Santiago was arrested just one month after his 16th birthday after stealing an iPod and spent a year and a half in prison. He didn’t...
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Oct 31, 20217 min read


‘Kimchi Wars’ and East Asia’s Complicated, Post-Colonial Nationalism
In recent years, kimchi—a spicy, fermented cabbage dish ubiquitous in Korea—has found its way into home kitchens and chain restaurants...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


“If We Do Not Win Soon, We Do Not Win”: Why Right Now is the Best Time to Stop Using Natural Gas
The roofs over several docks at Port Fourchon were stripped away by early afternoon. Hurricane Ida had produced a 12-foot storm surge and...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


Climate Multilateralism in Limbo: China’s Role in Constructing Meaningful Paths Forward
Throughout the past decade, China’s public stance toward the climate crisis has shifted significantly as the consequences of climate...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


Return of Meng and ‘The Michaels’ – Not a Détente
On September 25, after 3 years of detention in Canada, Huawei’s chief financial officer and CEO’s daughter, Meng Wanzhou stepped off of...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


Why Foreign Aid Is Not Enough to Resolve Surges in Migration from Central America
On a trip to Guatemala last June, US Vice President Kamala Harris initiated a rhetorical and strategic shift in her administration’s...
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Oct 31, 20215 min read


Using Vaccine Diplomacy to Address Supply Chain Woes
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during...
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Oct 30, 20215 min read


The New American Discourse: An Interview with Coleman Hughes
Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster, and opinion columnist who focuses on issues of race, public policy, and applied ethics. In June...
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Oct 29, 20216 min read


Closing the Gap: Desensitization to Wealth Inequality and its Costs to Average Americans
There’s a certain unfortunate cynicism to calling economic progressives and Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama “socialists.” Fiscal...
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Oct 29, 20214 min read


Forget About the Price Tag
When it comes to fiscal policy, pundits love to talk about price tags. Whether discussing President Biden’s proposed “$3.5 trillion”...
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Oct 28, 20214 min read


Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system...
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Oct 28, 20214 min read
Authoritarianism Revisited: The Peruvian Far-Right’s War Against Democracy
“The election will be flipped, dear friends,” Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori cried to her supporters, referring to an...
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Oct 27, 20214 min read
Poll It Together: The Future of Polling Latinos in the United States
In the aftermath of the 2020 election season, pundits and politicians have revived a familiar refrain: Public opinion polling is broken....
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Oct 27, 20213 min read
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