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The Widening Rift Between the US and China

Posted by on Jun 2, 2019 in Articles, China, Featured |
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0 comments If you ignore the headlines, you’d think the United States and China were the best of partners. Americans continue to rely on Chinese-made products in their homes, at their offices, and in their pockets. If you live near a university, you can still bump into one of the 340,000 Chinese studying in the US. You can still take a Beijing-sponsored Chinese-language class at any of the 104 Confucius...
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The Importance of the New Netflix Dystopia

Posted by on Jan 8, 2019 in Europe, Featured |
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0 comments Popular culture is full of alternative histories. Mackinley Kantor wrote a famous article in Look magazine in 1960 about what would have happened if the Confederacy had won the Civil War. Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America imagines a world where Charles Lindbergh beats FDR in the 1940 elections and ushers fascism into the United States. And The Man in the High Castle, an Amazon series...
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Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead

Posted by on May 16, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights |
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0 comments Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people,” Trump said at a recent White House summit on opioid abuse. “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty — and by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do.” Trump claims he...
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Engaging North Korea Successfully on Human Rights

Posted by on Dec 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, Korea |
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0 comments North Korea has the worst human rights record of any country in the world except perhaps Eritrea and Syria. There is, however, a curious exception to this record: disability rights. This case offers a powerful counter-example of successful engagement in an arena where the country normally experiences nothing but universal condemnation. For nearly two decades, outside NGOs have been working with...
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Engaging North Korea Successfully on Human Rights

Posted by on Nov 11, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, Korea |
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0 comments North Korea has the worst human rights record of any country in the world except perhaps Eritrea and Syria. There is, however, a curious exception to this record: disability rights. This case offers a powerful counter-example of successful engagement in an arena where the country normally experiences nothing but universal condemnation. For nearly two decades, outside NGOs have been working with...
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