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December 8, 2018 •
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Featured Image: Actors at the Ubumuntu Arts Festival (taken from the The New York Times) By Maya Vaknin e walk apprehensively. My hand grips the hand of someone unfamiliar, someone whose name I’d only just learned. My eyes are shut, and...
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December 8, 2018 •
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By Michael Tang he War on Terror is a mistake. Military operations against terrorist groups are necessary, but the War on Terror’s fatal flaw is combining all terrorist groups into a monolithic enemy. Military campaigns against Al-Qaeda...
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December 8, 2018 •
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Featured Image: At a detention facility in McAllen, Texas, a young Honduran boy watches a movie while surrounded by metal gates. By Shannon Sommers ike a summer camp,” answered Matthew Albence, head of enforcement and removal operations...
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December 8, 2018 •
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Featured Image: Two men offering horseback rides in La Marquesa National Park. By Nick Padin “Que gringo!” had accepted an invitation to a birthday party from one of my friends, a student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de...
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December 7, 2018 •
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By Alejandro Ortega early three years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faced criticism for failing to nominate actors of color for acting awards in the 2016 #OscarsSoWhite controversy. Spike Lee and Will Smith were...
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December 7, 2018 •
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Warning: Some of the descriptions of torture in the following article are graphic and include details relating to sexual violence. By Qusay Omran omething is rotten in the kingdom of Bahrain. In the years since the failed uprising of 2011,...
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December 7, 2018 •
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By Keigo Nishio airobi has two faces. On the one hand, it is a symbol of East Africa’s modernization, industrialization, and internationalization — wide roads, large shopping malls, numerous construction sites, luxurious hotels. On...
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December 7, 2018 •
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Poetry in the face of violence By Meghana Mysore “I never wear shoes I can’t run in.” t a recent conference with the UNHCR, Emi Mahmoud ‘16, poet and activist, was asked to say something about the million South Sudanese refugees...
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December 6, 2018 •
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By Mercy B. Idindili n Friday, October 12, the UN General Assembly (GA) voted for 18 countries to fill the 18 vacant seats in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). However, due to the conduct of the elections and the poor human rights...
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December 6, 2018 •
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By Sarah Pitafi ehind the coconut palms and glistening lagoons that attract flocks of tourists to the Maldives’ luxurious resorts lies a decidedly less serene reality. In February, the current president, Yameen Abdul Gayoom, declared a...
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