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Jon Stewart, Satire, and the Decline of American Media
Recently Jon Stewart announced his forthcoming departure from The Daily Show. His announcement took front page…
Venezuelan-American Relations: Sanctions and…
Deteriorating Venezuelan-American relations reached unprecedented levels on March 9th as President Obama…
ISIS Superstar: The New Media Jihad
The infamous ISIS is currently one of the world’s greatest concerns. The Jihadist group and self-proclaimed…
Kremlin of Cards
SPOILER ALERT: The following may contain some plot elements from the 3rd season of the Netflix series House of…
IRSAM at the UN (Part 2 of 2): When We Shook Our Heads
Part 1 of this series outlined the areas of convergence that a group of students from McGill University were able…
IRSAM at the UN (Part 1 of 2): When We Nodded Along
In the context of the UN Commission on the Status of Women '59, a group of students from McGill University had…
Hungry for Power: Boko Haram’s Strategic Alliance…
The last update on the international terrorist radar? A supposed allegiance between two of the most powerful…
Assessing Mexico’s Guerra al Narco
A week ago, the Mexican government celebrated another success in its Guerra al Narco: the capture of two drug…
Algerian Family Code: Progress for Women or Disguised…
On Thursday, March 5th 2015, the National People’s Assembly (APN) of Algeria passed legislation towards…
India’s Daughters
With the recent release of Leslee Udwin’s documentary India’s Daughter, which investigates the 2012 brutal gang…
China, the Unlikely Leader of the Green Revolution
China is by far the biggest polluter in the world, emitting 6018 million tons of greenhouse gases per year in 2009…
Understanding Russia’s Geopolitical Motivations
What has happened to Russian foreign policy? As this question resonates throughout the West, the Kremlin has been…