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Why Legalizing Weed Will Do Nothing against Mexican Cartels In One Image
Proponents of marijuana legalization like to say that legalizing weed will chip away at the cartels but, based on the amount of diversification that cartels have done in recent years, their influence...
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What Would Make the Police Better? If They Protected and Served Everyone Equally
The position that the LAPD and other police forces across the country is a problematic one, not least because it often gets in the way of them doing their own jobs. Continue reading »
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Google Maps for the United States of Hate
Researchers from Humboldt University have taken geotagged ableist, racist and homophobic Tweet over the past year and mapped them Continue reading »
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Insects: An Untapped Food Resource
The UN encourages us to embrace the insect-eating ways of our less squeamish friends in different nations for the sake of food security. Insects are actually of great nutritional value because they are...
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Here’s All the Women in U.S. Congress in One Sad Infographic
Let's be honest: the United States Congress, the legislating body for the United States, is not known for being the most diverse. Continue reading »
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Good News: Afghanistan Taliban Will No Longer Interfere With Polio Vaccinations
At this intersection of public health and politics, not only are lives being lost but there is support for the idea that, without a more cohesive effort to eradicate polio completely, the number of...
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Coca-Cola Tugs at the Heartstrings of Indo-Pak Relations
It’s hard to step into the shoes of someone who has such had the media, Bollywood, and generations before them point towards the same sentiment without ever humanizing the issues at hand. Which is why...
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Prepackaged Water Continues to Be Useless
Water has become a commodity that is currently privatized in several areas and of course there are streams and limited fresh water sources that are bought by large companies to package the water so...
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Sesame Street’s Much Needed Initiative to Educate the Young About...
The agenda of the justice system, to protect and serve, seems lost in bureaucracy and those who end up in jail for drug abuse have no way ‘out’ of the cycle after their release. Whether a jail term is...
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The IMF’s Greek Confessions Are Probably Not Going to Change Anything
Of course, Greece’s budget was not in place, but you cannot cut 40 percent of a person’s budget all at once and expect them not to bleed dry. Not unless that was your goal in the first place. Continue...
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Don’t Get Mad. Get Even.
We need not let our outrage get the best of us. We need to use our outrage in order to act - like against Stand Your Ground laws and against racial and class inequality. Continue reading »
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My Travels So Far: Altered Perceptions in Mexico
My peaceful stay here has caused me to think a lot about perceptions – both those that are foisted on us from the media and those that exist from people here about their own country. Continue reading »
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The European Union, Israel, Palestine and Me
The European Union recently announced that it would no longer provide grants, funding, prizes or scholarships to organizations affiliated with Israeli settlements in the West Bank or in East Jerusalem,...
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Syria Is Not the New Rwanda
Aside from the lack of necessity for these comparisons, these comparisons are made in a rather cavalier way, borrowing statements used in fashion, of all things. Continue reading »
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LGBT Struggles, Imperialism and the Old Order
Many of the least gay-friendly countries are those that have only recently emerged from the yoke of colonialism. Continue reading »
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Rolling Stone’s Cover Is Clearly a Bid for Sales, But Its Message Is Still...
Sure, it is clear to anyone paying a modicum of attention that Rolling Stone’s cover was a bid for controversy in an effort to draw magazine sales in a time that has not been great for the medium, but...
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I Re-Watched Disney’s ‘Pocahontas’ and It Was All Kinds of Effed Up
This is a series (a term I’m using loosely) in which I critically analyze movies from my childhood. I’ve mentioned before how, like most children growing up in the United States after, say, the 1920s,...
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The Problem with the Problem with US University Sexual Assaults
I know I should post something for today, so I’m going to. Frankly, I’ve been slacking a bit on reading the news, because I started Reading Lolita in Tehran, decided that I needed to read Lolita in...
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American Politicians Actually Want to Make the Legal System Slightly Less Crummy
This post is late, even for me. Still, I was momentarily distracted by this shark on the subway thing. At least that’s the excuse I’m using. Anyway, onto the news. As much as I dislike politics, I’m...
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I’m Lovin’ It: The Fight to Boost Low-Wage Workers’ Pay
As you may or may not know, many fast food workers in the United States are striking for higher pay. Arguing that the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, is not enough to live on (and it’s not, since...
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