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The Pendulum
Mar 25, 20193 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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The Pendulum
Mar 10, 20192 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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The Pendulum
Mar 4, 20193 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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The Pendulum
Feb 26, 20191 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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The Pendulum
Feb 25, 20195 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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The Pendulum
Feb 22, 20193 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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The Pendulum
Sep 3, 20186 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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The Pendulum
Jan 17, 20184 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...
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The Pendulum
Nov 15, 20174 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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The Pendulum
Oct 5, 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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The Pendulum
Aug 29, 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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The Pendulum
Jun 10, 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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The Pendulum
Apr 11, 20176 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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The Pendulum
Mar 27, 20174 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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The Pendulum
Mar 10, 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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The Pendulum
Feb 27, 20175 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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The Pendulum
Apr 1, 20164 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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The Pendulum
Jan 8, 20162 min read
Censorship in the India: Why The World's Largest Democracy Isn't So Free
When Reporters Without Borders released their yearly Press Freedom Index in 2015, India retained its 136th place in the bottom quartile...
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The Pendulum
Dec 4, 20152 min read
China In Central-America: Nicaragua's Mega Canal Faces Backlash
Violent protests between the Nicaraguan people and police have recently erupted around the development of a new Chinese-funded canal to...
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The Pendulum
Nov 4, 20152 min read
Why Slapping Sanctions On Russia Won't Work
In response to the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea in late February of 2014, the United States, the EU, and their allies have...
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