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South Korean MPs Break World Record for the Longest…
Every March 1st is Independence Movement Day in Korea, which commemorates the historic civil uprising in 1919…
Syria: Those Left Behind
More than 11 million people have been killed or forced to flee Syria due to the ongoing conflict and around 6.6…
The Yemen Ceasefire: A Successful Truce or a…
A sign of hope has reached the crisis in Yemen, as the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and Houthi…
Here’s To New Friendships: US-Cuba Relations and…
Barack Obama's speech in Havana, on the 21st of March, was addressed to an engaged crowd of Cuban citizens…
IRSAM at the 60th Commission on the Status of Women
The annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) brings together members of civil society,…
Obama’s Nomination: How Garland Can Break the…
On March 16, 2016, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court…
The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal is Impossible (At Best)
President of the European Commission Jean-Paul Juncker, when the European Union announced its recently-struck deal…
Tech and Technicalities: Apple’s Fight Against the…
In mid-February, a federal judge ordered Apple to work with the FBI on technical assistance in the recovery of the …
The Democratic Establishment: Casually Republican
Front and center in American politics recently has been the rightward shift of the Republican Party and a…
Republicanism and Islam in the Banlieues
The Paris attacks this fall brought to the fore the threat of European citizens recruited by ISIS returning to…
Fora Dilma: A People’s Quest to End Corruption
In Rio de Janeiro, where music and dancing are continuous, a different kind of party took place on the streets of…
Avoiding the Second Cold War
On Monday, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would begin withdrawing select parts of its…