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Today one of the most offensively crude anti-semitic articles ever written was published by the the San Francisco chronicle bemoaning the apparently undeserved popularity of Senator Bernie Sanders. The author Continue Reading
Taiwan has instituted an ostensibly pro-poor housing subsidy system with some very cruel consequences. One of the most glaring aspects is that it leave non-citizens ineligible, in and of itself Continue Reading
Once again, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have been elected as heads of their respective congressional bodies, Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. While Continue Reading
On the eve of considerable losses in the House for Democrats, pressure on House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi and Whip Jim Clyburn are increasing, while they remain bitterly defiant, and Continue Reading
As a US voter, a Bernie supporter in the primaries, and a skeptic of Joseph Robinette Biden’s willingness to make even the slightest modifications to the status quo, up until Continue Reading
New Caledonia represents one of France’s last holdings in the South Pacific, an island territory whose population is half composed of Melanesians and half of those of European descent with Continue Reading
A response to the recent article in National Interest, The Case for Kissinger by Jacob Heilbrunn, as well as the paper by Waltz, Kenneth N. (2000). Structural Realism after the Cold War. Continue Reading
There is a strong narrative within the “left,” itself a nebulous and largely fraudulent concept that now simply includes anyone opposed to Donald Trump, that the United States is moving Continue Reading
An analysis of Fong, B. C. H. (2019). Stateless nation within a nationless state: The political past, present, and future of Hongkongers, 1949–2019. Nations and Nationalism. doi:10.1111/nana.12556 In 2019, prior to Continue Reading
Analyzed through the lens of Kydd, A. H. (2008). Methodological individualism and rational choice. In The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Rational choice theory, the idea that political actors act based Continue Reading