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What Changes Should be Made to America’s Food Stamp Programme?

Last week the House is voted on the Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act, a food stamp bill that would cut $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next 10 years. Although this is about a 5 p...

by Allison Midori Reilly

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How Far Can The Law Protect Us?

The law is supposed to dispense justice, both for the accused and for their victims. But in a flawed world with legal loopholes and “ordinary” criminals, we must confront the possibility that horror can become reali...

by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif

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On This Day In History, Oil Spills…

Yesterday marked 25 years since the Exxon-Valdez oil supertanker ran aground on the Bligh Reef, releasing nearly 10.8 million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles of the Prince William Sound in Alaska. The impacts were ...

by Candler Vinson

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Let Colombia End Its Civil War

Colombia has been the host of some of the most extreme and brutal violence in Latin America’s history. The country’s half-century long conflict has taken the lives of almost a quarter million women, men, and children, and d...

by Global Voices

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“The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets”

A petition, started in November to secure funding and resources, and to begin the construction of a Death Star by 2016 has, funnily enough, been rejected. Petitions that receive over 25,000 signatures within 30 days automatri...

by Natasha Lipman

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Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic

The trends of climate change present a worldwide security challenge and require the adequate response of the international community. The negative impacts of these changes are demonstrated regionally in a different extent; larg...

by Lívia Magdošková

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The Free Market, Is It Truly Free?

Less than thirty years ago, much of the world was divided into two power blocs who were diametrically opposed to each other in both ideological and economic terms. On one side, the communist governance and command economy of th...

by Simon Fraser

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The international politics of searching for MH370

“We don’t want Chinese warships sniffing around in the area on the pretext of hunting for the missing jetliner or anti-piracy patrols” The world has been watching with baited breath as the search for Malaysian Airlines fl...

by Amanda Sheppard

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Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

The world holds its breath: protesters rally on the streets of New York ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations’ Climate Change Summit, 2014.

by Kamleshan Pillay

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What Changes Should be Made to America’s Food Stamp Programme?

How Far Can The Law Protect Us?

On This Day In History, Oil Spills…

Let Colombia End Its Civil War

“The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets”

Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic

The Free Market, Is It Truly Free?

The international politics of searching for MH370

Talk Is Cheap: Can UN Climate Change Summit Turn Rhetoric Into Action?

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