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Twenty six years ago, Imran Khan captained Pakistan to its first ever World Cup championship after narrowly beating England 249/6 to 227/10, having scored a decisive 72 runs and taking the last wicket of the game. Since then, Khan …
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Indians are addicted to image and how they are perceived by outsiders. This obsession is also true when it comes to talking about the country itself. Any negative slights about the country lead to an online barrage of patriotic…
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When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy abruptly announced his retirement on June 27th, all of Washington seemed to leap into action. Moments after receiving the news, President Trump announced that the process to fill the vacancy…
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In recent history, partisan voting patterns in the United States have become remarkably stratified by community type. In 2008, 45% of rural voters and 63% of urban voters voted for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. In 2016,…
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The Knesset recently passed Israel’s new “nation state law” which redefined the notions of Israeli statehood around the idea of a Jewish nation-state. With eleven different provisions, this legislation controversially formalizes the idea…
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Last month, leaders from seven countries (Canada, United States, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and Germany), plus the European Union met in La Malbaie, Quebec, for the annual Group of 7 (G7) summit. According to the Council on…
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Each of the 435 US House districts contested in November has its own geographic, cultural, and political quirks. It remains difficult to develop sweeping conclusions from one district or another, but some show the interaction of various…
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Leading up to Pakistan’s 2018 national elections, familiar contentions made their way back into the spotlight. It’s the civilian government's second democratic transition since the country’s independence in 1947, and pressure is high. The…
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Introduction             In his seminal Amusing Ourselves to Death the sociologist Neil Postman observed that there were two seminal dystopian novels released in the early 20th century. The first was George Orwell’s 1984. Humankind would…
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After Chancellor Sebastian Kurz won the Austrian elections in December 2017 and formed the coalition between the center-right People’s Party (OVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), the country began a crackdown on so called “political…
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