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Quick post here! The fifth and most recent Republican Debate was held this past Tuesday night in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hosted by CNN, this debate focused on national security, though it seems a little silly to have a debate with this focus as…
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In 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “unconditional war” on poverty and a year later he began a “war against crime”. When Johnson declared a War on Crime, he mobilized the resources of his War on Poverty programs,…
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With a political structure that has crumbled into absolute rubble, massive unrestrained violence, and an attempted 'ethnic cleansing,' the case of the Central African Republic (CAR) is one among many disappointing stories from the African…
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In a controversial decision, the British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Trinity Western University’s (TWU) plans to open a law school. The decision has overturned a previous decision by the Law Society of B.C. that…
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On December 3, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced that women will be able to serve in all combat roles, giving them access to roles that were previously restricted solely to men, including the Green Berets and Navy SEALS.…
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The protest movements of the Arab Spring prompted a major reevaluation amongst policymakers and academics alike about authoritarian regime stability in the Middle East. Counter to the euphoria that greeted the protests, continued…
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American politicians from both the right and left often talk about the “War on Christianity” as justification for their social policies. Those who complain about their rights being infringed cite the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution…
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It has been, at time of writing, two months and one week since the U.S. airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital that killed at least thirty people. Among them were at least thirteen MSF staff and ten patients; seven bodies…
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Had one hinted to the average Soviet citizen in 1975 – the thick of Soviet stagnation and bleakness – that a sovereign Russia would be pitted against the West over the small peninsula of Crimea, one would have been called insane or reported…
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