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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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Jan 14, 20223 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 15, 20214 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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Nov 2, 20213 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 29, 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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Sep 6, 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 26, 20214 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 18, 20213 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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Apr 13, 20214 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 31, 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 24, 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 11, 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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Mar 3, 20213 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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Feb 17, 20215 min read


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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Feb 10, 20214 min read


Sick Man of Europe: The Potential of Italexit
Della Maggio Despite the importance of the relationship between Italy and European Union (EU), tension between these two entities has...

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Feb 3, 20213 min read


Chocolate Chip Cookies: Eldorado Park Remembers Lockies
Nate Matzko “They shot Lockies!” On August 26th, 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies left his home to make his evening rounds around his...

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Nov 20, 20204 min read


Trinkets, Souvenirs, or Art?: African Art in the Face of Western Imperialism
Devante Kee-Young For centuries, Africa has been—and continues to be—exploited by more industrialized technological powers such as the...

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Oct 19, 20204 min read


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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Oct 12, 20203 min read


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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Oct 5, 20203 min read
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