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The inflammatory Irish backstop needs to be understood within the wider context of Anglo-Irish relations going back centuries, from the Act of Union in 1800, the Irish War of Independence, the Troubles, and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.…
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The Assad regime has survived the Syrian civil war. ISIS is defeated. Arab Spring-era resistance groups like the Free Syrian Army are crumbling. The Trump administration's military withdrawal has apathetically (and recklessly) abandoned its…
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 It is no wonder why China would view American cultural efforts and emblems, such as Forrest Gump, as trojan horses. Packaged in a benign exterior and concealed with unfiltered American ideology, movies like Forrest Gump take off with…
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As the Democratic party seeks to retake the Presidency and Congress in 2020 and effect change on Capitol Hill, it must be extraordinarily careful in how it conducts itself and handles the elimination of norms in its quest to reshape…
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On March 29th of this year, the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union, a day that has been coined “Brexit Day,” and stands as the culminating event of the lengthy and complex processes of negotiation that has been underway for…
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Qatar’s victory at the Asia Cup is emblematic of its continued resistance to Saudi-led regional policy, and if the blockade is to continue with no concessions from either side, it could threaten the strength of the GCC, as well as the…
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Understanding the UK's political quagmire with a ticking time bomb in the form of Brexit. Why hasn't a deal been agreed to and what blockades remain in the treacherous path forward for Theresa May ahead of March 29th?
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While older generations continue to use dialects in their everyday life, many young people have never received any education in their parents’ native tongue and have lost the ability to speak their dialect with fluency. Should this trend…
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Market capitalism and shady elites are not destroying the American family. Uncertainty about the future, a purely economic phenomenon, is undermining the social fabric of middle America. The difference here is that the future has probably…
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Il ne reste plus qu’un socle vide. En décembre dernier, étudiants et professeurs de l’université du Ghana ont démonté une statue de Gandhi qui se trouvait au milieu du campus de Legon depuis 2016. On reproche à l’icône de la non-violence…
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