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Midterm Wars: The Establishment Strikes Back—Or Does It?
The dominant narrative of the 2016 U.S presidential elections was that of a revolt against “the establishment”, an…
The Holy Constitution
A doctored image of Parkland shooting survivor and activist Emma Gonzalez ripping the US constitution…
Japan’s Remarkable Modernization
Today, Japan is by all metrics a first world country: It is an advanced democracy with the world’s fourth largest…
Editor’s Desk: We are Mir
Branded a CIA agent by the Taliban, and a Taliban sympathizer by his critics, Hamid Mir is the face of political…
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: How the…
In early March, Sergei and Julia Skripal were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury. What looked to…
¡Viva la Conservación! Learning from Cuba’s…
Land, Air, Sea: Rethinking Cuba (maybe: Land, Sea, Sky?)
Cuba is a nation known for embodying paradox: it has a…
One Team, One Dream: The Current State of College…
A major US industry has recently reached the billion-dollar-a-year threshold, thanks to the widespread popularity…
The Congo Wars: The Curse of Mineral Wealth Explored
In 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame, defeated the perpetrators of the…
Colombian Politics in Historical Perspective: The Unión…
In the 1980s, the left-winged political party Unión Patriótica (UP) emerged in Colombia. It was announced to the…
Russia and Peru: A Shared History of Gender Violence
Now that there are only a few months left before Peruvians can see their national football team play in the FIFA…
The Narco-State: Does It Exist?
Over the years, we’ve seen a striking global trend: drug problems growing from an obscure addiction issue in a few…
Putin’ out the Kemerovo Fire
March 25th, 2018; Kemerovo, Russia. A fire at the Winter Cherry Complex saw many families broken, and from the…