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The Evolution of Political Consciousness in Hip-Hop
From my first exposure to hip-hop in middle school to Eminem's "mom spaghetti" verse on "Lose Yourself", I was…
Fiscal Responsibility is Common Cents
It used to be that both parties cared about spending money responsibly in Washington. In 1960, President Dwight D.…
Sex-Toy Towns and China’s Development Gap
When tourists traverse the streets of the quiet riverside town of Yucheng, China (about an hour away from Shanghai)…
Can Renewable Energy Reconstruct Middle Eastern…
The increasing availability of clean energy sources and their recent cost competitiveness with fossil fuels in the…
Re-thinking Canadian and US Immigration Policy
Among the top 10 immigrant-friendly nations include Canada and the United States, unsurprisingly, as both of these…
Global Giving and the Contradictions of Elite…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headlines when he and his wife, Mackenzie Bezos, donated $33 million to finance the…
World Cup Dreams: The Politics of Football
Note: The author of this article will refer to the sport known as soccer to many Americans as football.
The…
Trans Erasure: The Obsession with Binaries
As Pakistani society progresses and evolves, the perception and treatment of the transgender community remains…
The Imperial Imam: Islam, Empire, and the Diplomacy of…
The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been shaped by its revolutionary, Shia Islamist and imperial…
The Jasmine Revolution: Seven Years Later
Seven years after Tunisians fought to depose longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a revolution that…
McMUN 2018: The Era of Good Feelings
Throughout McMUN 2018, the specialized agency Era of Good Feelings: The Monroe Administration was in full debate.…
5 Years After the Airpocalypse: Reviewing Chinese…
The beginning of 2013 marked the apex of China’s environmental problem. The government began publishing official…