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A Grim Reality Awaits a Post-Pandemic Global Community

When novel coronavirus cases began to skyrocket in China and slowly emerged in Europe, the WHO persistently reassured the global community that there was no need for concern and that there was no concrete evidence of human-to-human transmission.

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Don’t Be Fooled by the Intra-Afghanistan Peace Talks, There’s Nothing Peaceful About Them

Although the world is hopeful for the prospect of an end to conflict, any peace agreement will hide abuses to human rights and religious plurality─something the world hoped to end when they ousted the Taliban in 2001.

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Economics Middle East & North Africa

GM’s Newest EV Signals a Successive Arab Spring

GM created an electric Hummer, the successor of the Humvee, a militaristic behemoth famous for traversing the sand dunes of Kuwait during the Gulf War.

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A Region Divided: How Israel’s COVID Vaccine Campaign Embodies the Region’s Political and Ethnic Tensions

Perhaps nothing represents the political, ethnic, and economic duality of the West Bank better than Israel’s dissemination of the COVID vaccine, which has strictly prioritized the vaccination of its settlers over the many Palestinians living in the West Bank.

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How Transitioning to a Biden Administration Will Impact U.S. Relations with Iran

In the midst of the noise of America’s electoral drama, tensions have risen once again between the United States and Iran. In the past weeks of the Trump administration, the executive policy of ‘maximum pressure’ has escalated interactions with Iran.