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Recent months of this year have revealed a grim reality of the Indian healthcare system. In August and September of 2017, two major scandals involved the death of infants and children, due to the lack of appropriate healthcare, or neonatal…
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Editor's Note: This article is the first of a series on sustainability by Kara Anderson. Later on, we examine Detroit's unique approach to community-side urban sustainability initiatives, which offer a compelling counterpart to those in far…
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The Eurozone’s imperfect monetary union eats away at the political and social project of the EU as a whole. As inequalities among Member States grow, power imbalances, resentment, and grievances follow. Unless the existing monetary…
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The crowd was buzzing with anticipation after comedian Andre Philippe Gagnon had finished his act. People were craning their necks to keep the stage in view, and the murmurs grew louder with each passing moment. Then, New York Times…
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On October 12th the New York Times brought the discussion of second hand clothing in East Africa to the mainstream. Unbeknownst to most in North America, the United States trades millions of dollars worth of used clothing to East African…
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Nil Yalter is hardly a new name in the world of contemporary art; from issues of feminism to immigration, she has been expressing both political and non-political perspectives through her art for over fifty years. Born in Cairo,…
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On the 6th of October, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in devising the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN’s efforts to achieve global nuclear…
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a resounding electoral victory on October 22nd, with his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) retaining its 2/3rd supermajority. Buoyed by this development, Prime Minister Abe is likely to continue the highly…
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With “Dodgy Dave” (David Cameron) out of the spotlight after the unexpected result of the Brexit referendum in 2016, a new protagonist arises out of the ranks from the Tories. Following the 2016 Conservative Party leadership…
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Despite the fact that "freedom of the press" is loosely protected in the Angolan Constitution, the former president, Jose dos Santos, nullified these rights by passing a series of "security laws,"  ostensibly meant to protect the state from…
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