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Oxford’s Crossroads: Education and Class in British Society
Image source: Wikimedia Commons Owen Eastman As an academic institution, Oxford University holds a weighty place in pop culture that few...
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Jun 58 min read
Russia and Mozambique: A Contemporary Case Study
Matthew Ployhart Image credits: Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons 4.0 usage Russia’s presence in Africa has long-term historical...
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Oct 2, 20234 min read
Exploring the Healing Horizons: Navigating India's Medical Tourism
Tulsi Patel While tourism often generates images of famous attractions and endlessly redundant photos, it may be taking on a new form in...
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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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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 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 10, 20214 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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Oct 12, 20203 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 5, 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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May 15, 20204 min read
Hong Kong's Long Fight
Katy Trawick The most recent protests in Hong Kong started in March of 2019. With a long history behind them, these have become the...
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Apr 19, 20202 min read
Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow
Mary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
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Mar 27, 20206 min read
The Trials of the Rohingya People, as Viewed by the UN
Ashley Rhom A years-long conflict in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has claimed the lives of thousands and gone largely unchecked by...
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Mar 12, 20203 min read
Taiwanization for Dummies: A Simple Explanation of Taiwan’s Fight for Independence
Kingsley Ukuku Today, Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC) to the United States, constantly pops up in American news....
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Feb 28, 20204 min read
Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?
Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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