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The Fate and Legacy of Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe Velez
These reactions can only be understood in the context of Uribe’s legacy as one of the most transformative and influential Latin American statesmen of the 21st century, a man who has been both the protagonist of Colombia’s recovery from the depths of its late-twentieth-century crisis and the center of its current political polarization.
What COVID-19 Teaches Us About the Future of Environmentalism
By overcoming the adversity brought forth by coronavirus, environmental activism will become stronger. It will not only expand its reach to more platforms, virtual and physical, but also to more people from diverse ages and backgrounds.
Our Extraterrestrial Military Space Power
It would be naive to imagine that space will continue to be a solely cooperative environment, as that has never been true as long as humans have had access to space.
On Bangsamoro Neglect: Why All Filipinos are Accountable for acts of Extremism
The lack of conversation was deafening. Filipinos’ silence when their countrymen face the fear of terrorism and systemic abuses is a true indication of how the ignorance of all Filipinos renders them complicit to the rise of extremism in Mindanao.
Beautiful Island: On Taiwan As a Modern Beacon of Freedom and Democracy
Today, Taiwan is a beacon of democracy and freedom, as well as a prominent defender of human rights, yet it still faces many domestic and foreign threats to its autonomy and social-political well-being.
Who Owns the Moon?: Capitalism in Outer Space
To expand commercial exploitation to the Moon without serious reflection and addressing the issues we face now is not only foolish but catastrophically irresponsible.
Like Sheep to the Slaughter: How American Individualism Has Prevented an Effective COVID-19 Response
While there could have been more action from our government, Americans don’t do enough to hold the individualist mindset accountable for electing that leadership in the first place. The problem was never the government: it was the country that the government is in.
Xi Jinping: The Man Behind China’s Modern Rise—and Potentially Its Future Fall
Xi’s thirst for even more centralized power…not only risks alienating China from the international community, but also feeds growing dissatisfaction within government and Chinese Communist Party ranks. Soon, Xi might find himself fighting a war on two fronts.