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Inside Putin’s mind: Moscow’s Motives Explained
Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer As discussed in part one of this series, Putin has repeatedly denounced and denied Ukraine’s independent...
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The Pendulum
Apr 14, 20224 min read
A Spoiled Brotherhood: A Historical Look into Russia’s and Ukraine’s Relationship
Blake Mauro, Contributing Writer The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roots which existed before February 24, 2022, before the invasion of...
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Apr 8, 20224 min read
A Silent Battle: Sexual Violence within Militaries Around the World
Ava Barros In the United States military alone, one in four service women report being sexually assaulted by a fellow service member, and...
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Mar 1, 20225 min read
The Nihilistic Nutcracker: How Ballet’s Roots Confound Modern Political Issues
Clara Noble As the holiday season winds to a close, the last of the Christmas trees find homes on snow banks and curbsides and holiday...
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Feb 22, 20223 min read
Canadian Reparations and Welfare Reform
Hannah Roebuck The Canadian federal government and First Nations leaders have come to a historic $40 billion agreement-in-principle to...
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Jan 31, 20224 min read
Putin’s Gamble: The Ukraine Crisis and How it Started
Gavin Hunt It’s the night of January 21st in Ukraine as a Boeing 747 cargo plane lands and begins slowly taxiing to its parking zone....
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Jan 14, 20223 min read
Afghan Uyghurs Fear Deportation by the Taliban
Hannah Roebuck The Uyghur population in Afghanistan is estimated to be around 2,000 to 3,000. They arrived in Afghanistan in waves, some...
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Nov 15, 20214 min read
Africa’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria Vaccine
Mary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
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Nov 2, 20213 min read
Legal victories for Nigerians against the Shell Corporation
Ian Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...
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Nov 2, 20213 min read
Moscow or Bust
Clara Noble Russia—a hulking mass of nature, history, and people—can be understood through St. Petersburg’s recent explosion of modernism...
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Sep 29, 20214 min read
Forever a Suspect: Terror at Guantanamo Bay
Amani Altwam The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as Gitmo, is a United States military prison that is located on the Guantanamo...
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Sep 6, 20214 min read
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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Apr 26, 20214 min read
Hotel Corona
Hannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...
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Apr 18, 20213 min read
Mozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on Terror
Ian Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...
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Apr 13, 20214 min read
Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Aftermath of Atrocity
Mary Grace Nimmer In the past several decades, both Azerbaijanis and Armenians have called Nagorno-Karabakh home. In 1992, shortly after...
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Mar 31, 20213 min read
Farmers, the Free Market, and Manufacturing Consent in India
Hannah Stewart In times of significant upheaval–for example, during a deadly global pandemic–other social and economic issues are often...
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Mar 24, 20213 min read
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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Mar 11, 20213 min read
Myanmar and the Fight to Restore Democracy
Gavin Hunt It is the early morning hours of February 1st, and the sun has yet to rise. Military vehicles and police spread out across...
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Mar 3, 20213 min read
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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Feb 17, 20215 min read
Red Light Districts: Sex, Desire, Power
DeVante Kee-Young Neon lights, bustling alleyways, street eateries, and calls from women trying to make a pretty penny from a sexual...
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