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On May 9th, President Trump fired FBI Director Comey – only the second time an FBI director has ever been fired in the bureau’s 108-year existence. The following day, he shared sensitive classified information to Russian officials in…
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In just mere weeks the world will be a year removed from being helpless bystanders as the British people decided they wanted tighter borders, less globalization, and bendier, and therefore more patriotic, bananas. Pure frenzy…
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Rao Geping, a renowned scholar from Peking University and a prominent member of the Basic Law Committee, has recommended the establishment of an interpretation mechanism aimed to execute the legal codes under the Basic Law. The purpose of…
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The Western idea of nature being separate from culture once dominated the field of conservation development.  Now, a different approach is taking the stage: community-based conservation arose through the dialogue with local communities that…
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There has always been an inherent connection between sports and politics. In 19th century Britain, there was a movement known as "muscular Christianity” that emphasized the importance of schoolyard games and bolstering fair play to mold…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_i9fw43Moo Consider the above monologue from Aaron Sorkin’s short-lived The Newsroom, worth watching in full, my de facto manifesto for the continued importance of the Fourth Estate in this tumultuous time…
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On January 21st of this year, Sean Spicer deliberately lied when discussing the audience present at President Trump’s inauguration. He claimed that it was, “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and…
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Authoritarian regimes and resource cursed economies are themes Latin American countries have tried to confine to history, but Venezuela’s slow-burning crisis has displayed an inability to move beyond these neo-colonial trends. Now, the…
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“Not another one!” exclaimed Brenda from Bristol. Captured in a viral video, this reaction was in response to the snap election that Prime Minister Theresa May has recently called, just two years after the last general election in 2015.…
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The world took a sigh of relief as a young new leader emerged from the 2017 French presidential election: Emmanuel Macron. It is important to note that, although the independent candidate passed by 66.1% vs 33.9%, this is still in no way a…
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