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A Terribly Beautiful Veil: Sinn Fein and Economic…
Sunday March 27th, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Easter rising, a huge parade took…
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…
Migrants, Terror and Turkey
After undergoing significant modifications since it was first announced in November of 2015, the EU-Turkey…
Hear the Wedding Bells Ring: The Dark Side of Child…
Every minute, 28 girls under the age of 18 are married against their will. Over 700 million women alive today have…
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…
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…