American Dream Unrealized: A Wake Up Call from the UN
BY AMANDA HALLOCK Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, spent 2017 investigating an
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U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Not Coming Back
BY HAIYANG ZHANG A group of textile artisans protested against the newly developed labor-replacing machinery. They were afraid that the
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Seasons Greetings from Uncle Sam – Your Tax Dollars Made an Impact
BY MARIE LAWRENCE Every year around this time, when we are happiest to open our wallets, NGOs overwhelm our inboxes
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Money, Polarization, and Obstacles to Voting: A German Perspective on the American Presidential Election
BY SEBASTIAN LANGER Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) announced it’s 2017 election budget: 20 million Euro
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US Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: Ready for Takeoff?
BY ANDREW DEYE This piece appeared in our 2015 print journal. You can order your copy here. POLICY ISSUE OVERVIEW The
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Preventing Unilateral Actions: How to Exercise Preemptive Self-defense within the Scope of International Law
BY YASIR GOKCE The United States has been employing preemptive self-defense as a justification for use of force as it
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Presumptions, Prerogatives, and Power: Why Foreign Policy is Too Easy for Presidents, and Domestic Policy is Too Hard
BY JACOB SHELLY When President Obama stood outside the Blue Room on September 10th to announce a major expansion of
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