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How the West was Won: Putin’s Bosnian Shadow Game
This past December, Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated the 22nd anniversary of the Dayton Accords, the U.S.-led peace treaty that...
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Mar 2, 20184 min read
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Strengthening the BWC: The Case Against Mobile Biomedical Units
In 1975, with the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), biological and toxin weapons became the first category of weapons to be entirely...
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Mar 2, 20185 min read
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The Trump Administration is Failing Our Family Farmers
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of...
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Mar 2, 20185 min read
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Infographic: What’s Happening with Net Neutrality
Everyone has heard of net neutrality, but do you know what it actually is? And what does the internet look like in countries without net...
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Mar 2, 20181 min read
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Never Mind, Just Kidding: An Erroneous Emergency Alert
On January 13 2018, Hawaii residents and tourists were shaken by an emergency alert on their cell phones that read: “BALLISTIC MISSILE...
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Feb 27, 20184 min read
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Humor? I Hardly Know Her
The 2016 election was obviously pivotal for many reasons, including for members of the comedy community. As is the case with many others,...
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Feb 27, 20184 min read
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New Divisions: How Old Rifts are Reborn
It looks like any other government website: Just visually unappealing enough to give the impression of fluorescent lights in a waiting...
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Feb 27, 20185 min read
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Nutrition Resistance: Opposing GOP Efforts to Scale Back SNAP
Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year would make major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)....
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Feb 26, 20185 min read
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Make Lake Champlain Great Again
On March 6, 1998 Bill Clinton signed the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College Program, an act providing 33 colleges with...
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Feb 26, 20184 min read
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Censoring of Chinese Art at Home and Abroad
Since October of last year, all five boroughs of NYC have been taken-over with more than 300 works by beloved Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in...
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Feb 26, 20186 min read
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HQ2—To benefit whom?
Amazon’s search for a city in which to locate its second North American headquarters has caused a frenzy among prospective locations....
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Feb 25, 20184 min read
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Rebooting Regulation
Technology and politics are deeply intertwined in America. Data analytics drives campaign strategy and policy decisions, and social media...
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Feb 17, 20183 min read
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Automated Immunity
With the advent of self-driving cars, workerless assembly lines, and even robotic cashiers at McDonald’s, automation seems to be the way...
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Feb 17, 20186 min read
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Turning up the Heat: How Wildfires in the West Are Straining Budgets and Communities
This fall, wildfires have been dotting the United States. Cash-strapped state and federal agencies are desperately trying to combat the...
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Feb 17, 20185 min read
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Is Rapid Ugandan Urbanization Threatening Museveni’s 31-year Rule?
With the stunning overthrows of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia, some are wondering whether another one of...
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Feb 12, 20186 min read
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The Last Vestige of Apartheid? Land Politics After Mugabe
In Africa’s southern states, land remains a deeply emotive issue, an open wound harkening back to days of apartheid and colonialism. In...
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Feb 12, 20187 min read
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Cashless and Careless: Digital Payments and Silent Bank Runs
Mobile payment, facilitated by services like Chase QuickDeposit and Citi Electronic Check Deposit (ECD), has exploded recently. It’s...
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Feb 3, 20186 min read
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The Sound (Maybe) and the Fury (Definitely)
We live in a time of rapid technological advancement. This has large implications for national security. Even during peacetime, covert...
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Jan 11, 20185 min read
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Money Well-Spent: Boost Pay for Adjuncts, Forget Glitzy Stadiums
American universities have become notorious for their price tags. In the last 20 years, private university costs have increased by 157...
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Jan 11, 20186 min read
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Guns, Prisons and Executions: American Exceptionalism as Flawed Individualism
The exact origins of the concept of American exceptionalism are difficult to pinpoint. Perhaps it is rooted in John Winthrop’s “City upon...
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Jan 11, 20186 min read
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