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Following the erratic political crisis caused by the impeachment proceedings against Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK), the information revealed on Christmas Eve marked the beginning of another closely linked, yet immensely…
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Europe—and the world at large—has seen a rise of what some call ‘illiberal democracies’ in past decades. They are a type of hybrid regime which establishes elections, thereby respecting a minimalist definition of democracy, while…
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The CCP's Narrative: In 2017, Xi Jinping addressed the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, extolling Ancient China as a once great nation "plunged into the darkness of domestic turmoil and foreign aggression; its people…
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With a longstanding reputation as the U.S.'s progressive outlier, it is hardly surprising that California finds itself at the forefront of cannabis legalization. Since the ratification of California’s Proposition 64, which legalized…
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The Filipino government's newly proposed act for an autonomous zone in the South of the country has shed some hope for change in a region plagued by conflict and violence. The new Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is a proposed act that…
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The recent protests in Iran—besides being the largest in the country since the Green movement took to the streets in 2009—have also fueled furious speculation regarding the protests' causes. This speculation has been as diverse as…
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Editor’s Note: This article was written by Courtney Fang, Zoë Goldstein, Morgan Kennedy, Carla Achcar, Bidjinie Coriolan and Mackenzie Hamilton, for a case study in PPHS 511: Fundamentals of Global Health. Read Part I of this piece here.…
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It is worth occasionally pausing for a moment and noting just how astonishing it is that Emmanuel Macron is standing alongside Angela Merkel as one of the two de facto leaders of Europe. Only five months before election day, Macron was a…
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In an increasingly far-right and nationalist Eastern Europe, Poland’s government is moving to revise and politicize the country’s history during the Holocaust. On February 7th, Polish president Andrzej Duda signed into effect a law …
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Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a quick tour around the United States, which he kicked off in Chicago. Trudeau made a keynote address at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. The official purpose of the speech was…
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