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Defining a Fish: Makah Indian Tribe v. Quileute Indian Tribe
163 years later, a question remains: does the term “fish” include whales and seals?
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Review: Boys and Toy Guns
The play offers one answer: that to be a man is to have a proclivity for violence.
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Inevitabilmente: Institutional Failure Preceding Italy’s “Government of Change”
From Italy’s fascist government before the war to its flirtation with communism in the 1980s, Italian politics has been so fluid that radical political change is almost traditional.
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Turkey’s Elections, Erdogan, and the Muslim Ummah (Community)
The Western world’s dislike of Turkish President Erdogan is growing. However, it is not stopping Muslims around the world from embracing his domestic and foreign policies.
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On Plastic Straw Bans
Piecemeal environmental policy, however, cannot replace coordinated national action.
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A Mutual Understanding: The Value of Science and Philosophy
Making any argument about the burden of should—including the role ethics should play in science—requires the basic ability to make a value judgment, a skill firmly within the domain of philosophy.
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Civility Conceals State Violence
It’s why an ordinary civilian shouting in a restaurant at the Secretary of Homeland Security, fresh off a day of ordering that migrant children be ripped from their mothers’ arms, is cast as the uncivil one, the disrupter of order.
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Waking Up and Taking Action: Addressing Sexual Harassment in Pakistan
Growing up in Pakistan, I seldom thought about the way institutions handled cases of sexual harassment.