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After a contentious election, Kenya’s supreme court made history on September 1st by rejecting the recent re-election of president Uhuru Kenyatta and by ordering a new vote. This decision marks the first time in Africa when an opposition…
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During his post as Prime Minister, Stephen Harper enthusiastically promoted the expansion of extractive Canadian  industries abroad. Thanks to Harper's policies, today Canadian mining companies are responsible for up to 70 per cent of…
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Yogendra Sahoo makes all of his income from cultivating rice in his 5-acre farm in the Jajpur District of Odisha, India. His village is situated a bit above the coast, and every year Sahoo’s crops face rain, water scarcity, and damage from…
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On August 17th 2017, a van rammed into a crowd on La Rambla, Barcelona, killing fourteen and injuring over one hundred people. While n August 26th, Spaniards marched the streets of Barcelona to show that they were "not afraid" of…
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The Trump Administration recently endorsed a plan to cut legal immigration by half and prioritize well-educated immigrants with English proficiency. With the help of senior advisers, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, Trump worked closely…
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Of all the countries in Europe to be affected by the migrant crisis, Italy has been left with the brunt of the burden. In the past four years, over half a million people have landed on the Italian coast, and this number does not include…
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After a difficult summer, Azerbaijan and Armenia’s precarious conflict is in danger of erupting. It is an issue nearly impossible to research without sifting through nationalist propaganda on both sides; however, bilateral hostility has…
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Editor's Note: This article is the fourth of Kara Anderson’s ongoing series on contemporary artificial intelligence and its implications for humanity. For Part I: “Unchaining the Mind through AI: What Artificial…
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Rise of China: China is a rising revisionist power, seeking to realign the status quo in the Pacific and assure its security via domination of its periphery regions, after a "century of humiliation." In 1978, its GDP was a…
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Nearly every nation in Sub-Saharan Africa has faced power traps and institutional instability since their independence from European colonialism. Over the past four decades, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have…
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