Month: January 2022
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AMERICAS
Why Biden’s Build Back Better plan is necessary
Democrats in Congress and President Biden are attempting to get into law a $2 trillion package that will cover a…
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AFRICA
Why husbands often die first
By Azu Ishiekwene My wife occasionally jokes that my stressful, high-strung lifestyle could mean I’ll die before her. I’ve hardly paid…
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EUROPE
Message to the US and Russia: don’t think about nuclear war
War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold War in 1991…
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AFRICA
Chinese debt in Africa
By Geoff Hill Near Nairobi in the lead-up to Christmas, young men with axes, machetes and shovels were busy clearing…
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Editor's Picks
The Ukraine crisis – the other side
By Raphael Lapin “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery…
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EUROPE
Kazakhstan: new challenges
By Kateryna Odarchenko Early 2022 got marked with the massive protests in Kazakhstan, which have already led to the burning…
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AMERICAS
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
By Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines…
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ASIA
Evergrande’s danger to China
China’s economy needs to grow by leaps and bounds in order to feed its 1.4 billion people. This means having…
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AFRICA
The US risks losing its influence in the Horn of Africa. Here’s how to get it back
By Gabriel Negatu Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his freshly resigned Sudanese counterpart, Abdalla Hamdok, are arguably the most…
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Addressing global diversity deficits in legal systems
In many nations around the world, systemic racial inequity is rampant within the criminal justice system. The issue is so…
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