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Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies
Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
The Patsy of the Pandemic
Jade Killion It is no secret that the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected racial minority groups around the world....
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The Pendulum
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Complicated Case of the White Ant
Nate Matzko On February 4th, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convened in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver a verdict on the...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
The Faith of the Targeted: Government Surveillance of Muslim Americans
Amani Altwam Muslim Americans have been under the scrutiny of the United States Federal and local governments since the September 11th,...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
COVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the Pandemic
Jade Killion Battered and bruised from almost a decade of violent conflict, humanitarian crises, and economic hardships, Syria has...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 5, 2020
- 3 min
Contested Space: The International Race to Study the Unknown
Gavin Hunt In a fireball of light, sound, and smoke at 6:58 AM Tokyo time, the first mission to Mars by a Middle Eastern nation leaped...
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The Pendulum
- May 15, 2020
- 4 min
Hong Kong's Long Fight
Katy Trawick The most recent protests in Hong Kong started in March of 2019. With a long history behind them, these have become the...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow
Mary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Trials of the Rohingya People, as Viewed by the UN
Ashley Rhom A years-long conflict in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has claimed the lives of thousands and gone largely unchecked by...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 12, 2020
- 3 min
Taiwanization for Dummies: A Simple Explanation of Taiwan’s Fight for Independence
Kingsley Ukuku Today, Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC) to the United States, constantly pops up in American news....
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The Pendulum
- Feb 28, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?
Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 14, 2020
- 5 min
The Forgotten First People
Ava Barros The European colonization commonly overshadows the diverse history of Indigenous peoples. For hundreds of years American...
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The Pendulum
- Feb 6, 2020
- 3 min
Controversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in Somalia
Eden Wallace While the practice of male circumcision remains prevalent in Western cultures, the practice of female circumcision is...
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The Pendulum
- Nov 7, 2019
- 7 min
Gender Equality and Welfare States: Denmark and the United States, a case study
Aynsley Hartney Introduction Rome. Washington D.C. Sydney. Johannesburg. Copenhagen. These are just a few of the many women’s marches...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 31, 2019
- 5 min
Fewer Fish to Fry
Ashley Rhom International organizations are beginning a reckoning process within the illegal fishing industry. Unprecedented accounts of...
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The Pendulum
- Oct 24, 2019
- 2 min
Organ Sales in the Black Market
Olivia Loew Anyone who has visited the DMV has filled out a form that indicates whether or not they are an organ donor. Despite over 90%...
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The Pendulum
- May 6, 2019
- 5 min
Breaking the Glass: Female Representation in Global Politics
Carly Sincavitch The global average of women in national assemblies is 21.5 percent; this figure represents women who actually run for...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
International Scientific Community Confronts Human Genome-Editing
Nate Matzko Imagine a world where parents could walk into a physician-scientist’s office and request which physical traits their child...
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The Pendulum
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
The Imposition of a Gender Binary
Andrew Gasparini A vast majority of the contemporary world employs a two-category classification gender model, where the gender one is...
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The Pendulum
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
The Dynamics of Divorce
Rachel Clyburn Depending on the context or the individual, divorce possesses a variety of definitions and connotations. For some, it is a...
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