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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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Proudly anchored in the historic district of Fatih, Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia stands as a monument that seems to transcend history...Spanning centuries of occupation, the Hagia Sophia represents a profound change from antiquity to the…
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A decade after Magnitsky’s passing and with no indication that corrupt behaviour is subsiding, this pattern is worrisome — by lack of enforcement, states are failing to take a firm stand against those responsible for gruesome acts,…
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Mathieu Lavault sits down with Professor Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, to discuss the US in the 1930's and 1940's - a period which is often overlooked when recounting history.…
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This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Elizabeth Franceschini, to discuss her Op-Ed titled “Atticus Finch Isn't a Role Model, He's an Artifact”, where she recontextualizes where To Kill a…
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Staff Writer Jonah Fried argues that slavery determined much more than just the wording of the Second Amendment: "The historical context produced the wording itself, but the imprints that slavery left on the American cultural fabric gave…
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