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The increasing availability of clean energy sources and their recent cost competitiveness with fossil fuels in the energy market have added new perspectives to the discussion on sustainability. In the past, talks have revolved around the…
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Among the top 10 immigrant-friendly nations include Canada and the United States, unsurprisingly, as both of these nations take on an incredibly large number of immigrants yearly. Nearly 21% of Canada’s population is foreign-born whereas…
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headlines when he and his wife, Mackenzie Bezos, donated $33 million to finance the education of 1,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Bezos’ contribution certainly appears praiseworthy,…
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Note: The author of this article will refer to the sport known as soccer to many Americans as football. The importance of football around the world cannot be understated. For most of the world, particularly in Europe and Latin America,…
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As Pakistani society progresses and evolves, the perception and treatment of the transgender community remains harrowingly stagnant. One evening, one of my best friends and I were watching his favourite show, Transparent, a…
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The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been shaped by its revolutionary, Shia Islamist and imperial Persian origins. The regimes led by Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-1989) and Ali Khamenei (1989-present), the Supreme Leaders of…
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Seven years after Tunisians fought to depose longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a revolution that subsequently set the Arab Spring into motion, protests are once again being mobilized across the country. Every January since the 2011…
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Throughout McMUN 2018, the specialized agency Era of Good Feelings: The Monroe Administration was in full debate. As an historical committee, taking place between 1818 and 1820, all delegates represented different politicians of the time,…
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The beginning of 2013 marked the apex of China’s environmental problem. The government began publishing official AQI readings, making pollution a measurable, and thus effectively irrefutable phenomenon. In mid-January, smog choked the major…
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In recent years, Iran has been no stranger to political strife and friction. With the success of Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran transformed from a Westernized monarchy to the Islamic world's only theocracy. Since then,…
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