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Sex Isn’t Illegal: Criminalizing Human Trafficking and Protecting Sex Workers
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of...
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Apr 20, 20194 min read


Time for a Check-Up: Reconsidering Physician Reimbursement Rates
The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency,...
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Apr 20, 20194 min read


Deal or no Deal? — Green New Deal splits the Democratic Party
Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen....
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Apr 20, 20194 min read
Just Above Water: The Unsustainable Republican Denial of Climate Change
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


The Hidden Price of Being a Woman
2018 was the “Year of the Woman”; across the U.S., citizens are rightfully excited by the significant rise in both female...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Hospital Chargemasters Are Not Transparent Enough
The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is old news, with spending projected to increase over five percent annually until...
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Apr 20, 20193 min read


A Corporate Obsession: Why the FCC is Failing to Bridge the Digital Divide
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Time is (Literally) Money: Using Timebanking to Rebuild Communities
In the crowded Democratic field for the 2020 Presidential primary, candidate Andrew Yang is certainly a long shot. He has no name...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Break a Leg: Russian Performance Artist Exchanges Profundity for Controversy
In 2006, Russian auteur Ilya Khrzhanovsky decided to produce a film titled “DAU” about Lev Landau, a prominent Soviet physicist and 1962...
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Apr 19, 20193 min read


Changing the Game: At-Home Voting
The American vote is broken. The solution may not be to bring the people to the polls, but rather to bring the polls to the people by...
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Apr 19, 20195 min read


Can Spain Learn From Sweden’s New Sexual Assault Law?
Spain and Sweden started with parallel stories: decades of conservative sexual assault laws, skewed against the victim. A recent public...
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Apr 18, 20195 min read


A Diplomatic Conundrum: Seeking Peace in Afghanistan
The World Economic Forum this year in Davos, Switzerland, made clear the unfortunate stress that continues to increasingly pressure...
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Apr 18, 20196 min read


The Danger of Branding Social Activism
Colin Kaepernick’s Nike sponsorship, Kendall Jenner’s advertising stint with Pepsi, and Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be campaign...
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Apr 18, 20195 min read


Down In The Dumps
The blue bins are for recycling; everyone knows that. Everything in those bins gets melted down and reused for manufacturing paper or...
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Apr 18, 20194 min read


Barriers to Higher Education: Beyond Admissions Scandals
Inequality is rampant throughout the college admissions process. In the 1930s, as societal norms began to favor inclusivity, universities...
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Apr 18, 20194 min read


Invisible Women: Exploitation of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Vibrant, cosmopolitan, and an international financial hub, Hong Kong is known for its high level of development and integration into the...
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Apr 18, 20194 min read


How Much is That Doggy in the Window?
Though it may hard to view your dogs (as cuddly as they may be) as finished products coming straight from a quasi-factory, this is a...
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Apr 18, 20195 min read


Neo-colonialism Fuels Your Car
Since Colonial times, oil and connected international corporations have had a major influence over the nations of Nigeria and Equatorial...
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Apr 18, 20197 min read


An Orthodox Approach to Soft Power
This month, Serbia’s government approved a Russian plan to construct a vast network of pipeline stretching from the Bulgarian border...
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Apr 17, 20194 min read


Nation-Building at Gunpoint: How American Hubris Failed Afghanistan
Heavily guarded by steel-anchored concrete walls, the American embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, symbolizes a striking ground...
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Apr 17, 20194 min read
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