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Let Africa Develop! The David and Goliath of Modern Trade
In December 2015, the German newspaper Die Zeit published a feature story titled “One man picks against Europe.” Kojo Ebeneku, the tragic...
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Oct 18, 20184 min read


Azaadi and Atoot Ang: How Kashmiri Resistance Shapes Indian Nationalism
On June 14, 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a groundbreaking report on the human...
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Oct 18, 20188 min read


Behind the Curtains of the Gulf’s Domestic Help Industry
First published by the BBC in 2017, a video showing a young woman clinging for her life before falling from a seventh-floor window of a...
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Oct 17, 20184 min read


Social Media and the Performance of Protest
The day after the testimonies of both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault, Dr. Christine...
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Oct 17, 20184 min read


Opening Our Democracy in the Age of Voter Disaffection
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama urged a fuming crowd to translate their anger into votes. The mantra...
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Oct 17, 20186 min read


China’s Digital Future: Monopoly Capitalism?
In the last two years, the Shanghai and Beijing Municipal Governments have been on a steady mission to, ostensibly, formalize the...
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Oct 16, 20184 min read


The Never-Ending Story
On August 14th, 2018, the Pennsylvania grand jury issued a report detailing the cover-up of more than 300 predator priests involved in...
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Oct 16, 20185 min read


The United States Military’s Battle Against Sexual Assault Within its Ranks
#metoo. Brett Kavanaugh. Harvey Weinstein. The past few years have seen a flurry of high-profile cases and political events that have...
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Oct 15, 20184 min read


Caught in the Middle: How Russia is Preventing Georgia’s NATO Accession
This past July, US President Donald Trump made headlines for his behavior at the 2018 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in...
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Oct 15, 20186 min read


Is it the Economy?
During election season, the economy is always a hot topic for politicians. In the United States and most European countries, there has...
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Oct 15, 20185 min read


How Federally Funded Health Care is Failing Native Americans
Indian Health Service (IHS), the federally-funded health care program for American Indians and Alaska Natives, is the primary source of...
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Oct 12, 20184 min read


Treatment Behind Bars: Mental Health Care in the Criminal Justice System
Adam Hall began exhibiting signs of many mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, at a young age. After bouncing from one...
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Oct 12, 20185 min read


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Polling Infrastructure is Failing America’s Voters
As the 2018 midterms loom large, many candidates and political organizations have worked tirelessly to get out the vote. Voting is the...
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Oct 12, 20185 min read


License to Kill
In 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the...
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Oct 11, 20184 min read
Portugal and the Anti-Austerity Myth
Since 2016, Portugal has enjoyed robust growth (at least relative to its European peers), climbing wages, and a precipitous drop in...
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Oct 11, 20185 min read


Let Them Sleep In: The Socioeconomic Divide of Student Sleep
Chronic lack of sleep affects more than one in three adults in the United States, and it is associated with a myriad of health problems....
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Oct 11, 20184 min read


The Culture of Marriage Has Outpaced the Institution
People typically idealize marriage as the loving monogamy of two people, epitomized by the phrase “till death do us part.” This idea of...
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Oct 10, 20186 min read


A New ‘Yellow Peril’
On August 15, 2018, the New Zealand parliament passed an unprecedented law barring most foreign buyers from purchasing homes, fulfilling...
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Oct 10, 20185 min read


The Resurgence America Didn’t Want: The Comeback of Crystal Meth
For rural areas across America long under siege by the opioid epidemic, a disturbing trend has emerged: Drug users are showing up in...
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Oct 10, 20184 min read


Still Recording in Syria: The Future of Journalism under the Assad Regime
The documentary has always been the global community’s preferred medium of political exposé. Even devotees to the masterworks of...
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Oct 9, 20184 min read
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