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Media Companies and Genocide

Jazz Ward Mass media holds a vast level of power over people. It controls not just our schedules, our communications, and our serotonin, but also how and why we think about current events. Critical thinking may be encouraged when reading academic papers or encountering divisive online rhetoric, but how has mass media shaped our thoughts […]

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Space Force Turbulence

Teagan L. Danilowicz In 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, establishing the United States Space Force as a branch of the Air Force.[1] According to §9091 of the Act, the functions of the Space Force include “providing freedom of operations in… the space domain for the

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International Human Rights Legal Compliance Must Be At the Center of Multilateral Regulation of Commercial Spyware

Micah Winters It’s been less than four years since a journalistic coalition dubbed “the Pegasus Project” upended the preexisting global paradigm of digital rights and surveillance technology by documenting the incredible and chilling scope of remotely-directed state surveillance of the devices of journalists, activists, and political dissidents via a novel commercial technology, spyware.[1] The use

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Is Wealth Taxation the Solution to Growing Economic Inequality?

Nisat Chowdhury People all around the world are starting to pay more attention to the growing gap between the super-rich and everyone else.[1] The COVID-19 pandemic definitely made things worse, helping the wealthiest get even richer while leaving the rest of society behind.[2] This has sparked a lot of worry about inequality, and one idea

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Calling It What It Is: The Definitional Deficiencies of Genocide and the Argentine Paradigm

Alex Mysler            What counts as a genocide? Does it matter what we consider genocide if we still recognize the fact that something is an atrocity?            The debate over the breadth or narrowness of the definition of the term “genocide” shows that there is some importance

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Chaos in the Caucasus: Georgia’s Shift Towards Authoritarianism Threatens Global Democracy

Grace Begley While Americans deal with political chaos at home, a country on the other side of the world has fallen into severe turmoil. Tensions are high in the Eurasian country of Georgia after lawmakers elected a far-right former soccer star as president and implemented several authoritarian and pro-Russia policies.[1] Georgia, which gained independence from

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The Use of Commercial AI Services in War Spotlights the Urgency in Implementing International Regulations on Military AI Applications

Paulo Frank Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed methods of operation and has vastly augmented capabilities across numerous domains over the last few years.[1] An area of particularly salient concern is the encroachment of AI applications into military operations. In both the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts, drones equipped with AI technology have seen widespread

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Canada’s UNDRIP Implementation Act: Binding or Just an Interpretive Tool?

Jake Oberg In 2021, Canada passed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (“UNDRIP Act”).[1] The act requires that Canada make sure its laws “are consistent with” the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“UNDRIP”).[2] This act stands out given the fact that Canada was one of the

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Fighting Words: Bill 96 and the Rights of Minority Language Speakers in Québec

Colin Lang In 2022, the provincial government of Québec enacted Bill 96: “An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec.”[1] Bill 96 amended Québec’s Charter of the French Language and ushered in sweeping reforms to Québec`s official language policy, with the ultimate goal of making French the primary language of all business

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