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Globalizing Hatred

Though nearly a decade has passed since the most prominent interventions by American evangelicals, LGBT individuals in Uganda continue to face intense persecution stemming from the rhetoric once used by these evangelicals.

Bending the Trend: The Future of Safe Injection Sites in Massachusetts

On November 6, 2018, Charlie Baker was re-elected to a second term as governor of Massachusetts. Throughout the campaign, Governor Baker highlighted his legislative...

After The Fall: Income Inequality and the Great Recession

If there’s any point of agreement amongst the many ten-year anniversary eulogies of the 2008 recession, it is that at some point the crisis...

Bending the Trend: Early Success in Curbing Opioid Overdoses in Massachusetts

In 2017, Massachusetts experienced 1977 opioid overdose deaths. While this figure is certainly high, it actually represents an 8 percent decrease in overdose deaths...

An Emerging and Troubled Power: Overcoming Ethiopia’s Landlocked Geography

With over 100 million people, Ethiopia is easily the most populous landlocked country on earth. When Eritrea seceded in 1993, Ethiopia lost access to...

American Local Government: Pete Buttigieg’s True Impact

Despite declining levels of trust in the federal government, public confidence in local government has remained stable over the past three decades. Americans trust...

When Politics Turn Deadly: The Democrats’ Move Away from “Tough on Crime”

It was not long ago that then-governor Bill Clinton, running for president in 1992, publicly put a mentally ill man, Ricky Rey Rector, to...

An Emerging and Troubled Power: Ethiopia’s (Un)Distributed Renewable Grid

Ethiopia’s economic success has attracted widespread attention. Its GDP grew by 10.5 percent annually between 2006 and 2016, outpacing East Africa’s 5.4 percent growth...

When Politics Turn Deadly: The Case for Abolishing the Death Penalty

Though developed, non-authoritarian countries all over Western Europe and North America abandoned capital punishment years ago, the United States remains the only country in...

Politics in Los Pinos: The Next Quinazo

The political legitimacy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the ruling party of Mexico from 1929 to 2000, has declined since the 1980s. Economic...