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MIR Meets: Richard Hanania
Host Blaise Brosnan sits down with Richard Hanania, founder of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and…
MIR Meets: Freddie deBoer
Host Blaise Brosnan sits down with Substack writer and Marxist Freddie deBoer, to discuss the merits of…
How COVID-19 Inflamed Canadian Regional Divides
Canadian federalism fails to incentivize political parties to act as a so-called “nationalizing agency” when it…
Les think tanks néolibéraux : pourquoi penser ?
Une des forces du néolibéralisme est sa subtilité. Son idéologie se faufile partout, et se propage, entre autres,…
Overcrowding at Rikers: A Tale of Two Americas
People can find themselves trapped by the American carceral system without even knowing the full consequences of a…
Rethinking Long Distance Railway Transport in Canada
For too long, Canadian governments have promised to improve railway infrastructure and only now is the conversation…
Nicaraguan Elections: A Historical Retrospective
It is important to reiterate the United States’ previous attempts at destabilizing the Sandinista government, which…
United in their Division: Mrs. America and the…
In trying to argue that every woman is a feminist, Mrs. America threatens the credibility of feminism as a movement…
Handheld Imperialism: American Tobacco in China
Between 1905 and 1937, young men from tobacco-growing states in the American South travelled to China to exemplify…
Between Two Giants: How Three Island Nations Control the…
Why does the US care so much about three of the world’s smallest, most remote nations? The answer is that it…
Revisiting the Sino-US Cold War Narrative
With China's recent gains in power and tensions between the US and China increasing, the debate on whether to…
Meet Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s Veteran of Corruption
Keiko Fujimori is a veteran of Peruvian politics, having participated in three presidential elections. She is also…