The most pressing issue for U.S. regional and national security interests has been Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities. Upon Biden’s inauguration today, Iran’s recent bellicose behavior will press him to establish a strategy for working with Tehran that safeguards U.S. national security and satisfies American allies in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe core issue of Amazon deforestation sets the stage for the intersection of human rights and environmental activism as groups try to save both the land and rights of indigenous people. However, these forms of resistance can prove futile in Brazil— a country which has been named “the worst place” for advocates of land rights and nature protection.
Read MoreGenocide denied is genocide continued. Since September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan has laid siege on Artsakh, a disputed area of land between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Read MoreIf the Democratic party wants to prevent another disaster in congressional elections like the one they experienced in 2020, they need to seriously reevaluate their messaging.
Read MoreThe Green Party’s popularity has the potential to reorient German politics.
Read MoreA realignment toward Russia could cost the United States its ability to ensure free-flowing oil, to access the region quickly for military operations, and to partner effectively with regional actors in advancing critical interests.
Read MoreProposition 16 deeply divided communities across California, in particular, the Asian American community.
Read MoreDuring the 2020 election, California voters voted yes on Proposition 17, which proposed to restore ex-felons’ right to vote following the completion of their prison term.
Read MoreToday, California is one of a handful of states making drastic changes to the way that they’ve decided to conduct elections. Rather than putting election resources toward physical polling places and ballot boxes, there has been a reallocation of emphasis (and funds) onto mail-in voting -- as a result, slashing the number of poll places available.
Read MoreIn the realm of United States foreign policy, President Trump maintains a unilateral approach, in which he limits the usage of alliances, whereas his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, manifests a diplomatic strategy, in which he utilizes international institutions.
Read MoreBeginning with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in August 2020, many Middle Eastern countries have started to consider normalizing relations with Israel.
Read MoreThe United States is disunited due to increasing partisan division on every topic from policies to ‘basic facts’. Among these ‘basic facts’ include how to respond to COVID-19 and the importance of combating climate change.
Read MoreFor far too long, this country has been categorically divided by countless elements, a polarization that has traumatized many Americans into choosing a blissful ignorance away from other communities’ issues.
Read MoreIn the year that has passed since Guaidó’s commencement , Venezuela has remained in the midst of political, economic, and humanitarian crises.
Read MoreAs the peninsula becomes more modernized and Confucian social contracts breakdown, the government needs to revise its approach in tackling social welfare in order to ensure a better future for South Korea
Read MoreSinn Fein’s success forces the Irish political elite to adapt to a changing landscape, one in which historical connections matter less than the emotive power of parties and their opposition to stagnation and the difficulties posed by modernity
Read MoreFor a land that historically has massive populations of Muslims, and currently contains more Muslims than its neighboring Muslim country Pakistan, embarking on this ideology will take it many steps back.
Read MoreThe impeachment process for Presidents of the United States has become an ineffective and biased political endeavour that lacks meaning beyond which party controls the House of Representatives and/or the Senate.
Read MoreThe coronavirus outbreak has also led to a spread of xenophobia around the world. Chinese people along with mostly all other Asian people in many countries are facing discrimination as people fear they will contract the virus from any person of Asian heritage
Read MoreThe reaction to the death of Li Wenliang represents one crack in the firewall of politburo sponsored censorship and the policing and surveillance of thought.
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