Since the election of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April of 2018, Ethiopia has been transformed by a series of energetically executed democratic reforms…
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The University of California. From the outside, it marvels. Every month, a new set of newspaper headlines boast of a new building, resource, or department accomplishment…
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Luxurious vacations to Italy, Hawaii, and Vegas, private school tuition, thousands of dollars in groceries, food and beer at concerts, gas, tequila shots, personal ski trips, golf outings, and video games all share a common denominator: they are…
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While Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing and ultimate confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States sparked a heated national conversation about sexual assault and violence against women, fears have now…
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In early October, a group of 120 migrants set out for the United States from Honduras. Within two weeks, the caravan grew to over 7,000 people due to massive press and social media attention…
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Pakistan seemed well on its way to establishing successful social and political reforms in the past two years when it came face to face with one of its long standing adversary…
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#MeToo. The hashtag that took social media by storm this past year, and the words that gave thousands of survivors all across the United States, the strength and solidarity to come forward…
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As of June 2017, roughly one-fourth of publicly traded companies in California have no women on their boards…
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On November 6, Americans across the country will be marking their ballots. Up for the taking is a third of the U.S. Senate, every House seat, and a multitude of state and local positions and propositions…
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With eleven propositions on the ballot Tuesday, on topics from state bonds to rent control to ambulance workers, voters understandably struggle with sorting through all the ballot measures and their potential impacts on everyday life…
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Belgian artist Rene Magritte is well-known for using his skills to explore philosophical concepts. In his surrealist painting “The Treachery of Images,” he depicts a realistically shadowed and sculpted pipe, under which the caption “this is not a pipe” appears…
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Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, live in a real-life Orwellian police state. Throughout the Xinjiang Region are security checkpoints where residents must scan identification cards…
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