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House of (Credit) Cards: Disjuncture between Public…
On March 23rd, McGill University Principal Suzanne Fortier issued a statement that shocked many within the McGill…
Porn is not a Condom Tutorial: The Failure of Sex Ed in…
Political polarization – the vast and growing gap between liberals and conservatives – is a defining feature of…
For Berta Caceres, A Month After Her Death
This is an ode to Berta Caceres. Over one month after her murder, even as most newspapers have moved on to new…
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…
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…
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…
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…
American Foreign Policy Post-Elections: A Forecast of…
Many are breathing a sigh of relief that the U.S. Presidential primaries seem to be finally approaching their end,…
A Tale of Two Countries: 110 Days Later
This article is a continuation a piece published on 20 November 2015 which can be found here.
Three and half…
The Opposite of Poetry
As many as 24 million people at once have tuned in live for the election debates this year, which have brought the…