Nicholas LePage

Recently Jon Stewart announced his forthcoming departure from The Daily Show. His announcement took front page of many newspapers, including The New York Times, underlining his influence on American media. Stewart has hosted The Daily…
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Over two months have passed since the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students from a rural teachers college in Mexico. The students were passing through the Iguala, the capital of Guerrero state, en route to Mexico City to…
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The night before the announcement of an extended campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), national security experts warned that the organization posed no direct strategic threat to the United States. ISIS deployed the gruesome videos of the…
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“Loyalty, fearlessness, integrity!” chant the men of Rio de Janeiro’s Elite Squad in their dub step-laden promotional YouTube video. The Special Operations Battalion (BOPE in Portuguese) has been at the frontline of Rio de Janeiro’s…
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Pakistani-Afghan relations are a “complex and complicated nexus” that have produced seemingly self-defeating Pakistani policies. Why has Pakistan chosen to support the Afghan Taliban, and why has it continued to do so despite the risk of…
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