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What’s All This Buzz about Bees?
Video by Zack Goldstein and Misbah Noorani.
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Oct 26, 20161 min read


Risky Business: Brazil’s Lava Jato Scandal
Brazil has become a nation defined by political backlash. Since early 2014, a regional Brazilian judge named Sérgio Moro has risen to...
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Oct 25, 20165 min read


Cultural Destruction: A Crime Against Humanity
Last week, the International Criminal Court found Islamic militant Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to nine...
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Oct 25, 20164 min read


The Private Side of Public Policy
Lobbying is loosely defined by each state as “an attempt to influence government action,” and in the eyes of many, the industry is highly...
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Oct 24, 20164 min read


The Rise of Border Walls: Implications of a Physically Divided World
Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall along the United States and Mexican border has arguably become the most memorable talking point of...
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Oct 24, 20166 min read


Minimum Sentence, Mandatory Damage
On September 11, 2015, 75-year-old Lee Carroll Brooker, a disabled war veteran with chronic pain, received the news he had been dreading...
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Oct 24, 20167 min read


Egalitarian Education: Possible, But Desirable?
Online education, once championed as a great equalizer, promising unfettered access to a variety of quality course material, seems to...
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Oct 22, 20164 min read


Parliament Robusta: The Economic Freedom Fighters and the Nature of Legislative Bodies
Patricide: A Political Backstory South African president Jacob Zuma once decreed that the African National Congress (ANC) would remain...
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Oct 20, 20167 min read


Vote: *Some Restrictions May Apply
Video by Ezza Ahmed, Isabela Karibjanian, and Hannah Simpson.
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Oct 20, 20161 min read


Legalizing Opium: A Shift in the Developmental Paradigm
The legacy of foreign involvement in Afghanistan is both extensive and controversial. Whether referring to Soviet manipulation of the...
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Oct 20, 20165 min read


The Unspoken Bias in Western Media
Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts...
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Oct 19, 20166 min read


Explaining the Inexplicable: The Duterte Phenomenon
Since being elected three months ago as president of the Philippines with 39 percent of the vote, Rodrigo Duterte has publicly called for...
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Oct 19, 20165 min read


Assigned Counsel Programs in Their Worst Forms
Law and Order has in many ways informed a nation of its constitutional rights upon arrest. Now, Miranda rights have so been engrained in...
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Oct 19, 20166 min read


The Fight for State-Level Single-Payer Health Care
Infographic by Zack Goldstein and Julie Pham.
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Oct 18, 20161 min read


Getting to Zero: The Fight Against Malaria
The most lethal creature on this earth is, surprisingly, the tiny mosquito — more specifically, the malarial plasmodium parasites that...
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Oct 17, 20164 min read


Taking A Knee to Racial Equality: The Colin Kaepernick Protest
On August 14, during the first NFL preseason game, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick elected to remain seated during a...
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Oct 17, 20167 min read


Civil Asset Forfeiture: Shadow Bandit of Working Class America
The cases border on parody, and they have a peculiar ring: United States v. One 1987 Jeep Wrangler, United States v. $25,180.00 in United...
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Oct 15, 20166 min read


School Boards, State Houses, and Stein: The Green Party and Local Elections
President Barack Obama recently took to the Steve Harvey Morning Show to admonish listeners against voting for a third-party candidate in...
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Oct 15, 20165 min read


Twin River’s Tiverton Casino: A Safe Bet for Rhode Island
Over the last few years, the gambling industry in the Northeast has been gradually expanding into new states, creating fierce competition...
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Oct 14, 20166 min read


War Photography: A Mirror or a Window?
On August 17, Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old Syrian boy, narrowly survived a Bashar al-Assad-backed airstrike in Aleppo. Overnight, a...
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Oct 13, 20165 min read
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