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North America

Campus Conservatives and Progressives Unite to Raise Awareness About Student Debt Crisis

In conjunction with the College of Wooster Student Government, campus Libertarians and Socialists have united to raise awareness about the student debt crisis. This Tuesday, March 5th, Aaron Calafato will perform his one-man pl...
by Kyle McCarthy
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Israel

Jerusalem: a city at war

President Obama and the US Democratic Convention took the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This comes in the aftermath of the racist anti-Palestinian statements by the Republican candidate M...
by Nadim Souss
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Politics

The American Irony: Guns for Protection Against Guns

As the United Nations voted through the long awaited Arms Trade Treaty in early April, the United States  is still unable to achieve small amendments to their gun bill. President Obama expressed his disappointment, calling A...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Africa
International Political Forum

Skin Lightening: 50 Shades of Chagrin

On September the 15th, 24 Year Old Nina Davaluri became the first winner from an Indian background to win the Miss America pageant. Amidst the cheers of adulation and the small but obnoxious stream of racist remarks directe...
by Nadia Hasan
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Iran
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Why Assad Will Not Lose: The Unspoken Consensus On Syria

Commentary on the situation in Syria generally revolves around a handful of well worn subjects; the regime’s use of chemical weapons, how the West finds the regime abhorrent, the fact that Russia and China are supporting such...
by Michael Brown
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Human Rights

The Land of the Free?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thu...
by David Bartlett
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Human Rights
International Political Forum

Human Rights for All – Even Thatcher and Bin Laden

Since news broke about the death of Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, celebrations have en widespread on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and in real life. Similar scenes were played out in 2011 when Osama Bin Laden ...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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North America

Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data. The idea that the NSA is swe...
by Justin Elliott
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Africa

The 5 Most Dangerous Gangs In The World

At the moment it seems like a new incident of religiously-driven gang violence is appearing in the newspapers every day. What with the recent Kenyan mall massacre and the Nairobi school shooting, it seems like we have a chain r...
by Maddie Barber
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