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Plastic Paradise: Brazil’s Cosmetic Surgery Boom

Ian Garcia-KennedyMarch 28, 2015August 19, 2015

A surgeon penetrates the bridge between your two nostrils. Tweezers enter the space created by the incision, lifting the skin off your nose as if it is the hood of a car. Now comes the scalpel, cutting bone and transforming…

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A Bloody, Contested Anniversary: The Armenian Genocide A Century Later

The PoliticMarch 28, 2015August 19, 2015

“Don’t let them take me! Don’t let them take me!” Satenig cried. She gave Edward, another Armenian trapped in the schoolhouse basement, the little money she had in exchange for his protection. Each night, Ottoman authorities would raid the basement…

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How to Build Your Own Political Dynasty: An Instruction Manual

Madeleine ColbertMarch 28, 2015March 28, 2015

So, you want political power? You can picture your name on elementary schools and highways; you dream of a crowd chanting your name under raining red, white, and blue confetti. In America this means you have to run a top-notch,…

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Rent a Womb

Abigail SchneiderMarch 28, 2015August 19, 2015

Indian Surrogacy Companies Offer Cheaper Alternatives for Foreign Clients

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A Silent Surge: The New NHPD Strategy That No One’s Talking About

Edgar Avina & Victoria WangMarch 28, 2015March 28, 2015

In December 2014, Yale students, Yale faculty, and New Haven activists marched across the city to the beat of drums. Since Michael Brown was shot on a Ferguson, MO, street last August, groups such as the Black Student Alliance at…

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Feeling Versus Fact: Reconciling Ava DuVernay’s Retelling of Selma

Daniel JudtMarch 28, 2015March 28, 2015

The film Selma is not honest, according to Julian Bond, civil rights leader, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and former chairman of the NAACP. “There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” Bond…

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Building BRICS: An Assessment of the New Development Bank

Rhea KumarJanuary 17, 2015January 17, 2015

Rhea Kumar explores how the New Development Bank may change the global financial order.

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Wash Your Hands And Dry Them With Dirt: The Failure of Donations to Rebuild Haiti

Mikaela RabbOctober 17, 2014October 17, 2014

Mikaela Rabb explores why the oft-lauded solution of foreign aid has not achieved the necessary efficiency in the case of Haiti

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