United States
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MIDDLE EAST
Trump scorns United Nations as tensions with Iran flare over Saudi oil attacks
By Shelley Inglis, University of Dayton President Donald Trump made his disdain for the United Nations quite clear in his…
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SOCIETY
US citizenship applications are backlogged, prolonging the wait for civil and voting rights
By Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado Boulder Every year, hundreds of thousands of people apply for citizenship in the…
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ASIA
Iran’s challenge to the U.S supremacy in the Middle East
By Haris Bilal Malik The United States as a global superpower has been maintaining and projecting its military and political…
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AMERICAS
Low interest rates can be a real danger
The Federal Reserve Bank announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percent for…
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ASIA
Looming crisis in West Asia?
By Sudhanshu Tripathi West Asia or Middle East is once again passing through grave dangers due to emerging Riyadh-Washington-Tel Aviv…
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AMERICAS
Wall Street is ignoring the omens of recession – here’s why
By Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University The world is on the brink of a recession, if all the breathless headlines…
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AMERICAS
Expanding direct democracy won’t make Americans feel better about politics
By Joshua J. Dyck, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Edward L. Lascher, Jr., California State University, Sacramento As Americans watch…
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AMERICAS
The Senate filibuster explained – and why it should be allowed to die
By Daniel Wirls, University of California, Santa Cruz Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to argue an arcane Senate…
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ASIA
Hegemony in Asia: the key islands between China and Japan
The islands and the entangled relationships between China and Japan China and Japan, the history of the fierce competition between…
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AMERICAS
Far fewer Mexican immigrants are coming to the US – and those who do are more educated
Rogelio Sáenz, The University of Texas at San Antonio Once upon a time, not long ago, Mexicans dominated the flow…
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