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If Spotify is to reach its goal of allowing one million artists to live off their music, it is clear that that the platform must reconfigure itself to better pay the artists who drive traffic on their platform. Unless streaming services…
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Mathieu Lavault sits down with Dr. Ingo Sasgen, a geophysicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. Having led an analysis that concluded that Greenland’s ice sheets lost one million tonnes of ice per minute in…
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Mark Rutte was showered in international criticism when he opposed other leaders' call for mutualized debt to palliate the effects of COVID-19 in the European Union. However, those who cast him as the villain should think twice, for his…
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Although online platforms have existed for decades, their potentially counterproductive influence on electoral integrity has given rise to an impasse. Tech stars, like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and state bodies are seldom on the same…
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Duterte has showcased his intentions to further restrict civil liberties and individual freedoms in a country that was once considered the pinnacle of democracy in Southeast Asia. Amid increased calls to defund military and police…
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Despite significant challenges, Saint Helena has been one of the few places able to successfully prevent COVID-19 from reaching its shores. Hopefully, the island can position itself to take advantage of the post-pandemic tourism resurgence.…
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Many are calling COVID-19 the “biggest setback in gender equality for a generation.”
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, over half of all commercial air traffic has halted, prompting countries to bolster their air travel industries with federal aid. But when it comes to climate change efforts, Staff Writer Marie Fester…
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The entire world bears the consequences of the largest emitters’ actions. Compared to the future effects of climate change on our lives, a bit of transcontinental smoke is not particularly worrisome. The international community must heed…
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Mathieu Lavault sits down with Jean Casella, co-director of Solitary Watch, an organization dedicated to bringing the horrors of solitary confinement and other forms of torture in US prisons and jails into the public light. Aiming to…
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