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Kill the Unpaid Internship
The internship search is a frenzy that college students across the country undergo every single year — meticulously crafting their...
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Jan 6, 20184 min read


Rule by Law Versus Rule of Law: Xi Jinping and the Chinese Dream
From October 18 to October 24, 2,287 delegates, representing over 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), gathered in...
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Jan 3, 20187 min read


Conspiracy Culture in an Age of Turmoil
On October 26, 2017, the Trump administration began the latest wave of declassifying documents relating to the Kennedy assassination....
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Dec 27, 20176 min read


The Chavez Imitator
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently announced that his government and the state-run oil company PDVSA will need to “restructure...
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Dec 27, 20177 min read


Good Policy, No Buyer: The Fall Rhode Island’s Greenhouse Compact
No state escaped deindustrialization, but some weathered it better than others. Rhode Island was not one of those states. At the turn of...
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Dec 27, 20178 min read


An Enemy of My Enemy: The Blooming Relationship Between Israel and the Kurds
According to an old Kurdish proverb, “the Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” The Iraqi-Kurdish independence referendum on...
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Dec 14, 20175 min read


Connection Not Found: When Governments Pull the Plug on the Internet
Between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, there were 81 government-ordered disruptions to internet access across the globe. Of these, 36...
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Dec 14, 20175 min read
Devolution Dilemma: How the Franco-era State of Autonomies Jeopardizes Spain’s Unity
In the relatively peaceful world of European politics, governments rarely reach into the toolbox of physical coercion. After all, sending...
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Dec 14, 20176 min read


Linguistic Life Support: What Governments Should Do About Dying Languages
If, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, you believe that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world,” then your world is getting...
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Dec 14, 20176 min read


Titans of Tech: Regulating Monopolies in the Digital Age
The United States is still haunted by the memories of Gilded Age monopolies: Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Vanderbilt’s New York Central...
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Dec 13, 20176 min read


Seeds of the Silicon Savannah: Supporting Homegrown Talent in the Heart of Africa’s Tech Indus
The landscape of technological innovation in sub-Saharan Africa has been aptly dubbed the “Silicon Savannah.” The IT sector in the region...
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Dec 13, 20174 min read


Technology’s Blind Spots: Affordable Eye Care and the Proliferation of Tech
Around the world today, 217 million individuals suffer from untreated but correctable visual impairment. Those in the more developed...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


DNA Discrimination: Fixing the Fears of Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is one of the most groundbreaking technologies of the modern age. The advent of human genome sequencing has expanded...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Code Red: Liability and the Case for Regulating Code
As technology’s impact expands, the consequences of security vulnerabilities grow steeper. In 2016, the software testing company...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


McConnell Can’t Shake the Blues: Safeguarding the Blue Slip Process and Senate Traditions
The United States Senate is an institution steeped in tradition: From the filibuster to the amendment process, senators on both sides of...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Shopping Outside the Box: Why Walmart’s Departure May Be a Good Deal for Rural America
In January of 2016, Walmart announced that it would be closing 154 of its locations in the US. This included all 102 Walmart Express...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


XXX Ed: Pornography’s Place in Sex Education
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then,...
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Dec 13, 20173 min read


Judgment Day: The Future of Mandatory Arbitration in the Wake of the Equifax Hack
The Equifax hack shocked Americans in both its scope and preventability. The Social Security numbers of over 143 million citizens were...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Boeing and Iran: Boeing’s Quest to Give the Iran Deal a Soft Landing
In the present-day United States, no landmark political decision is insulated from commercial interests: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


The FBI Decides to Play Ball
The college sports world was rocked in September with an announcement from the FBI that 10 individuals, including assistant college...
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Dec 9, 20175 min read
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