Uma Lembrete (A Reminder)
Throughout the coming weeks of sport and competition, keep in mind the cost Rio and Brazil are bearing to host
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Student Ideas
What Goes Around
Speaker Paul Ryan may fall victim to his own attempt at party unity after standing behind his reluctant embrace of
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Neoliberalism has failed — let’s move on
Several years on from the Great Recession, global order is being forcibly reshaped by peoples defiant of a status quo
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The problem with a third-party candidate in 2016
We’ve all heard it over the past few months: If a third party were ever to win, it would be
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Review of the UN’s First-Ever Secretary General Debate
The first in the United Nations’ 70-year history, the public debate on June 12 for the organization’s highest position, Secretary
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Systemic racism’s effects on America
(Editor’s note: This blog post initially started as a reaction to something the writer saw on Facebook. The original Facebook
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On our supposed inhumanity: 2016
Alton Sterling, just the next in a long line of black men shot by excessively aggressive white cops. Three reported
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We should push for the politics we want, not just the policies
It’s common now to hear complaints that Bernie Sanders is endangering #I’mWithHer, unreasonably holding Hillary under the same intense scrutiny
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What’s all the talk about sovereignty?
A lack of purposeful, unified action across borders paralyzes efforts to improve our world. A lack of purposeful, unified action
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The public’s politics are clearer than they appear; candidates, listen up
2016 may be the beginning of the next era in our history books. Trump. Brexit. Le Pen. Duterte. The list
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Brazil: Are liberal economics and liberal democracy at odds?
Politics is currently no less than a bagunça, a mess, in Brazil. Former president Dilma Rousseff was removed from office
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