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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 ...
Five atrocities still defended in the present day
Atrocities have filled our media outlets for decades. Yet despite evidence, many are either ignored or defended by leading academics and national officials, causing human rights violations to go largely unnoticed. “As hum...
‘Me’: On Gender Constructs
This poem is about attitudes that try to define a particular gender, and how different societal labels lead to subtle discrimination. I was born, and you looked at your weighing scales. I babbled, she smiled and filled ...
Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines
If you were to read only the headlines of US news covering the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden and the NSA’s surveillance in Latin America over the last two weeks, it would be easy to think that Latin America was a ...
Syria – A Nemesis of World Powers?
On the streets of Dimashq, Aleppo, Idlib, Homs, Deraa…Syrians welcome people with an outstretched hand while saying Marhaba (“Hello”). However, the once happy faces of the Syrian milieu are haunted by the thought of t...
Youth Activists Speak Out: Educational In-Equality Around The World
The West Wing used to be somewhat of a family tradition in my house. No matter what was going on in the world, we could always cuddle up to the heart-warming wisdom of President Jed Bartlet or one of Josh Lyman’s one-line...
