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On September 25th, Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly in an independence referendum to separate from Iraq and become an independent state. Immediately thereafter, the Iraqi government called for the result of the vote to be annulled and began…
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In July 2016, Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for her problematic art and social media posts that were harshly critical of the Turkish government and the abuse it has inflicted against the Kurdish population. The…
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Just about two years after gender parity at the Cabinet level was first achieved in Canadian federal politics, a similarly impressive result came to pass in another Westminster parliamentary democracy this past September: a young, unmarried…
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The US State Department has announced that it will be withdrawing military support from Myanmar in the coming weeks as well as suspending all travel waivers for Myanmar military officials, amid the ongoing infighting between the Rohingya…
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Student protest in America is as old as college itself. The earliest evidence of student rebellion was in 1766, when Harvard hosted the ‘Butter Rebellion’. As the story goes, the butter served on campus was so bad that one Harvard man cried…
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On Thursday October 26th, the United States National Archives released thousands of pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. These were set to be released a quarter of a century after they were formally sealed in…
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It’s strange that the country ranked second-best in the world for quality of life is, at the same time, becoming infamous for the justice gap between its non-Indigenous and Indigenous populations. Life for Australia’s Indigenous peoples is…
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Prompt: What are the political implications of artificial intelligence technology and how should policy makers ensure this technology will benefit diverse sectors of society? In recent years, the rapid development and mass…
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This past summer, Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel made a proposal for a new $95 million police and firefighter training facility on the west side of the city. Last week, city council voted to approval the purchase of land for the proposed “cop…
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