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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...

The Pendulum
Apr 8, 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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Apr 5, 20192 min read


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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Mar 31, 20192 min read


Emmanuel Macron's Neon Siege
M.J. Fleck France is in the midst of an inscrutable existential crisis. For nine weekends running, gilets jaunes (yellow jacket)...

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Mar 25, 20193 min read


The Problem With Your Plate
Dana Phan In our globalized world, dinner time now includes foods and ingredients from all regions of the earth. However, the contents of...

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Mar 10, 20192 min read


Island Prison: Inside Moria, Europe's Largest Refugee Camp
Ted Anastopoulo On the island of Lesvos, Greece, twenty minutes from the luxury villas of Mytilene, streets of scattered life jackets...

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Mar 4, 20193 min read


Presidential Hopeful Coming To Clemson
Presidential hopefuls are beginning their tours around the country to woo voters and establish themselves as front-runners. One such...

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Feb 26, 20191 min read


Is Bitcoin Better than the Euro?
Travis Redd Imagine never exchanging money when visiting a foreign country. What if the the world used just one currency? Although, one...

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Feb 25, 20195 min read


Moscow Meddling: Russian State Media and the West
Austin Schlueter Though social media misinformation campaigns organized by the Russian government have penetrated our country’s political...

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Feb 22, 20193 min read


Immigration and Western Obligation
M.J. Fleck Refugees and asylum-seekers are pushed from their homes by war, poverty, and persecution. On screens they see London, New...

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Sep 3, 20186 min read


Trump's Role in the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process: Progressive or Destabilizing?
The controversial “two-state solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict would, as the name suggests, allow Israel and Palestine to...

The Pendulum
Jan 17, 20184 min read
Fractured Politics and Ethnic Tension Fuels South Sudanese Civil War
Ted Anastopoulo The blood spilt in South Sudan’s fight for stable government drips in vain. Conceived in 2011, the world’s youngest...

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Nov 15, 20174 min read
Cholera in Yemen: The Preventable Epidemic
Yusra awakes. The constant bombings roaring down from the sky and exploding in the not-so-distance did not wake her. No, she now equates...

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Oct 5, 20174 min read


Why Somalia Failed and How It Can Change
Aditya Aswani More than 900 women were sexually assaulted last month in Somalia. The recent famine led to not only mass starvation but...

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Aug 29, 20174 min read


The Off-Ramp From Grexit: A Road Map to Sensible Economic Reform
We live in uncertain times. As if Brexit, a populist President in the US, and Russian hacking were not bad enough, global financial...

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Jun 10, 20174 min read


Turkey's Descent into Dictatorship
In terms of threats to peace and stability on the continent, Europe’s leaders have plenty to worry about. The refugee/migrant crisis,...

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Apr 11, 20176 min read


Re-Election of Rouhani: A Call for Renewed Diplomacy
Ted Anastopoulo When affronted voters took to the streets of Tehran after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s dubious re-election...

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Mar 27, 20174 min read


Downfall of Dynasty: President Park's Final Hours
“It’s all fake news!” a proud pro-Park protester screams into a microphone on a stage built on an intersection only four city blocks from...

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Mar 10, 20174 min read


Overreach or Restraint? America's Next Move in Syria
The conditions of American involvement in Syria metamorphosed. The U.S.’s success in the initial victory conditions of obliterating ISIS...

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Feb 27, 20175 min read


The Fourth Wave? Illiberal Democracies and What They Mean for the World
On July 26th, 2014, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared his intention to create an illiberal democracy in Hungary. Orban cited...

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Apr 1, 20164 min read
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