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The Pendulum
Feb 21, 20203 min read
Chaos or Community? Xenophobia in South Africa
Tremain Prioleau Chaos or community? This is the question that looms over the beautiful skies of South Africa. A nation once revered for...
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The Pendulum
Feb 14, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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
Jan 29, 20205 min read
Imperialism: An Inside Look
Josephine Rohrer Imperialism, while seemingly embedded only in the past, has lasting effects on the world and remains relevant in...
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The Pendulum
Nov 7, 20197 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20192 min read
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
Oct 17, 20192 min read
Putin's Georgian Scheme
Austin Schlueter The recent decision by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament to allow a member of Russia’s legislature, the Duma, to...
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The Pendulum
Oct 11, 20193 min read
The Blue Bubble
Jade Killion An unknown death toll with hundreds injured. Seven months of protests. No mass media coverage. Sudan has been taken over by...
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The Pendulum
Oct 3, 20192 min read
Examining the Israeli Elections
Tyler McDougald On April 9th, 2019, Israel held an election for their twenty-first Knesset, the country’s parliament. On September 17th,...
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The Pendulum
Sep 26, 20193 min read
Lockdown in Kashmir Reopens Old Political Wounds
Nathan Matzko During the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Muslims across the globe observe one of Islam’s holiest holidays, Eid...
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The Pendulum
Sep 19, 20192 min read
The Forgotten Voice in the Taliban Peace Talks
Rachel Clyburn When President Trump officially ended the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban, reactions to the decision...
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The Pendulum
May 6, 20195 min read
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 28, 20193 min read
Conflict in Congo Worsens Ebola Outbreak
Christian Adams In 1976 a village along the Ebola River witnessed the first recorded outbreak of the deadly virus named after the now...
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The Pendulum
Apr 22, 20194 min read
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 14, 20193 min read
Asia Spearheading Investment in Virtual Reality Technology
McKenzie Myers Snapchat Lens. Ikea Place. Pokémon Go. These augmented and virtual realities (VR) have become some of the most popular...
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The Pendulum
Apr 8, 20192 min read
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
Apr 5, 20192 min read
A Fragile Baltic Balance
Olivia Loew After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Baltic States struggled to rebuild their societies and economies while...
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