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Conflicting Interests: A Power Vacuum Remains in Libya
After a 42-year reign of mostly iron-fisted dictatorship, many Libyans hoped that Muammar Gaddafi’s capture…
THЭ VЭRΔICT
From the moment of their inception, laws stretch out into every street and crevice of a country and cast their…
The Rise of the AfD: The Far-Right Enters the Bundestag
Last week, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right nationalist party to enter the Bundestag…
Under the Weather: Caribbean charts a path beyond Irma…
Every hurricane season, the crystal blue waters that attract swaths of tourists to the Caribbean turn against the…
In Light of the Pence-Kobach Commission, the Voting…
In the past few years, the discourse surrounding voting reform in the United States has become increasingly…
Protesting the Powerful: Art & Resistance in Turkey
Turkey’s history is no stranger to public clashes between the government and its people over…
The 19th Communist Party Congress: A Test for Xi Jinping
In mid-October, about 2,300 delegates will gather in Beijing for the 19th Party Congress. Held every 5 years, the…
Winds of Change: Angola’s Political Zeitgeist
Perhaps no country better exemplifies the resource curse than Angola: although the country has vast natural wealth…
One Country…Two Systems? A Question of Autonomy in…
On September 20th of 2017, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam pushed for an end to the claims of…
The Nuclear Kingdom
On September 14th, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, colloquially termed North Korea, threatened to sink…
Ante portas: Radical Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
With every rubbled Raqqa street, the US-backed Kurdish and Arab Free Syrian Army inches closer towards victory over…
Plastic Policy: An Overview of the Global Plastic…
In Rachel Carson’s book, Under the Sea Wind, she poignantly describes the beauty of living on a planet as singular…