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Sustainability: a Market Trend, Not a Policy
With the expected economic recovery following the pandemic, experts predict an equally rapid return of greenhouse gas emissions that have...
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Mar 16, 20215 min read


Left-Wing Prospects: A Sinn Féin Model
As the popularity of right-wing populist parties has soared in recent years, Ireland contrasts in exhibiting a notable dearth of such a...
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Mar 16, 20216 min read


The Pitfalls of Protectionism: Why Biden Should Abandon “Buy American”
In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Biden pledged to reverse course on many of his predecessor’s unwelcome policies. To some...
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Mar 15, 20215 min read


Keystone XL, the Commons, and Energy Independence
Among the flurry of executive orders signed by Joe Biden on his first day as President was the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline,...
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Mar 15, 20214 min read


Delivery Room Advocacy: How doulas can mitigate the effects of medical sexism and racism
The internet is littered with harrowing stories of childbirth gone awry. In The New York Times, Tara Haelle chronicles Tamoyia Hashim’s...
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Mar 15, 20215 min read


Alien Justice: How a 200-year-old law remains deeply relevant for US foreign relations
If you’ve ever had a Crunch Bar, there’s a chance a child slave in Côte d’Ivoire produced the cocoa. As illegal as that sounds, the...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


Who Bears the Consequences? Discontinuity in the protection of Bears Ears National Monument
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


It Could Be Free Free Free: How the tax preparation industry is cheating taxpayers out of billions o
The days leading up to April 15 are filled with panic for many Americans who, upon realizing that their tax returns are due, must search...
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Mar 14, 20214 min read


We Should Chat: How online disinformation impacts the democratic participation of first-generation
“George Soros backed the violence in Charlottesville.” “Liberal media threatens to violently destroy Mount Rushmore.” You have probably...
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Mar 14, 20216 min read


Catholicism and White Supremacy: How These Unlikely Allies Set the Stage for Poland’s Staunch Aborti
On Wednesday, January 27, the Polish government enacted a near-total ban on abortion with exceptions only for fetal abnormalities, rape,...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


Homeless and Hopeless: America’s Silenced Voting Problem
Criminally underserved and unheard by the public, the homeless population in the United States is one of the most marginalized groups in...
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Mar 14, 20215 min read


Squeezing Short-Sellers for Fun and Profit
On January 27th, 2021, u/DeepFuckingValue, whose real name is Keith Gill, posted a screenshot of an investment portfolio composed...
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Mar 12, 20216 min read


The Case for The Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read


Escalation at an Impasse: U.S. and Iran under the Biden Administration
In September 2020, now-President Joe Biden referred to Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read


New Zealand as a Mediator in the Australian-China Trade War
New Zealand or “New Xi-Land”? That is the question raised by Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper in response to New Zealand’s ambiguous...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read


The History and Return of Press Briefings
Many administrations have entered and exited the White House in the last 100 years. However, what has remained constant over time is how...
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Mar 11, 20215 min read


President Biden Must Change the U.S.’s Catastrophic, Dehumanizing Drone Program
On February 4, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden announced the end of US military aid for the calamitous Saudi-led war effort in...
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Mar 11, 20216 min read


From Ceasefire to Peace: Navigating the Aftermath of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War
In the city of Baku, in the small Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan, three futuristic glass towers dominate the skyline. At night, they are...
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Mar 10, 20215 min read


How President Biden Can Defuse The Housing Crisis
President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 election because of his housing plan, but it can still dramatically improve the lives of...
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Mar 10, 20215 min read


The Other Ceiling That Needs to Shatter
America has a debt problem, but the problem is not the debt itself. It’s the debt ceiling. A breach of the US debt ceiling would herald...
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Mar 10, 20215 min read
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