The Everlasting Fight for Democracy in Nicaragua
Over the last three years, human rights abuses and the deaths of hundreds of protesters have revealed the repressive nature of the Ortega regime. If change is to occur, Nicaraguans will have to confront the dictatorial husband-and-wife team…
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‘Zero Covid’: At What Cost?
China's zero-COVID approach involves indiscriminate and mass PCR testing, forced quarantines, and indefinite lockdowns. In affected cities, suicides are becoming more frequent as businesses suffer, and a lack of food and basic necessities…
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MIR Meets: Moshe Lander
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Moshe Lander, an economics professor at McGill University. They discuss Lander's journey as an economics professor, the misconceptions surrounding our current inflation crisis, and whether or not an economics…
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Macron en Afrique : un mandat au bilan mitigé
Alors qu'Emmanuel Macron vient tout juste d'être réélu pour un deuxième mandat en tant que président français, il se montre déjà plein d'ambitions vis-à-vis le continent africain. Mais qu'en est-il de son premier quinquennat? Que peut-on…
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Quand le rêve européen se heurte au Kremlin
En Ukraine et face à l'Union européenne, Poutine cherche à imposer sa vision du monde.
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Democrats, Revisited: The Rust Belt, the Working Class, and John Fetterman
Why has the predominantly rural, mid-Atlantic state of Pennsylvania recently captured the attention of the Democratic Party establishment and become one of the harshest battleground states? And why has a 6’8” former linebacker become one of…
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War and the World Wide Web: The Rise of The Splinternet
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has shown that, with worldwide coordination, a country can effectively be blocked from the internet. Russia has also demonstrated their ability to successfully run a state-isolated internet. A…
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MIR Meets: Alyssa Rosenberg
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Alyssa Rosenberg, a columnist for The Washington Post. They discuss the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra, the ephemerality of political performance, and Scarlet Witch's arc in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of…
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MIR Meets: Greg Sargent
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Greg Sargent, a columnist for The Washington Post. They discuss the state of the U.S. economy, the New Right, popularism, and the extent to which we can disentangle the cause and effect of either party's…
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The Aftermath: China’s Dynamic Zero COVID Strategy
Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Vivian Wang, a China correspondent for The New York Times. They discuss the draconian pandemic restrictions China has instilled in Shanghai and Beijing, as well as the propaganda campaign that's…
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