Galleries on Lockdown: COVID-19 and Digitization of the Art Market
The art market was shaken by frenzy in early spring as social distancing guidelines kicked in, requiring vendors to perform the entirety of their business digitally and leaving in-person gallery exhibitions and international art fairs to be…
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Analog Design: Restructuring Life Around COVID-19
The responsibility of providing stability for local businesses and city workers increasingly falls on their respective municipalities, transforming the challenge of redesigning office spaces into a city-wide puzzle.
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Battling Conflict and COVID-19: The Changing Dynamics Within the Syrian Civil War
Since 2011, civil war has raged on in Syria, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century. Now, amid a global pandemic, the various actors implicated in the crisis struggle with battling both conflict and COVID-19,…
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Reforming European Elections: Transnational Lists
To move beyond national political debates and national political parties, transnational lists have been suggested as a potential solution, rendering European elections more “European."
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The Modern Tax Haven
The stage has been set: the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the working population upon which we depend on to prop up our social nets is dwindling. The four horsemen are coming.
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Opinion: Why Environmental Progress Will Not Come From International Cooperation
As the international system has proven to be incompatible with top-down environmental agreements, solutions to climate change must be pursued through the bottom-up approach of capitalist innovation.
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Dirty Money, Dirty Water: Oil on Trial in the Amazon
In the shadow of the shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous communities of Ecuador's Amazon are struggling to find justice as they live through the consequences of the country's largest oil spill in over a decade.
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MIR Meets: Chris Gibbs
Contributor Mathieu Lavault sits down with Chris Gibbs, an experienced soybean farmer from Western Ohio and the former chair of his county Republican party. Having worked at the United States Department of Agriculture for many…
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Presidential Narcissism: Ego in the Empty Suit
Taking on a political position is sometimes referred to as moving into ‘service’, which entails a level of self-sacrifice. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Too often, we are taken by narcissistic politicians, who do not hold any…
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Gene-editing and International Law: A Bioethical Debate
There exists extensive debate on the ethics of making changes to human DNA. Today, these conversations remain largely speculative given the state of current CRISPR/Cas9 technology. However, in light of the birth of the allegedly…
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