Category: American Politics
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What is the Function of International Law?
What is the function of International Law? International law is the framework through which the world attempts to achieve far reaching goals – such as human equality – worldwide and increase the quality of life for the human population. While international decisions which are disregarded (such as that by the…
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Is Global Zero Just a Utopia Impossible to Attain?
As President Obama stated in his address to the Security Council on 24 Sept 2009, the United Nations (UN) “was founded at the dawn of the Atomic Age in part because man’s capacity to kill had to be contained.”[1] Since its creation, the UN has been tasked with one of…
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A Preventable Death Sanctioned by the US Health System
A few weeks ago, one of my close family friends, a woman I view as a second mother, lost her husband. Why? Because the American health system didn’t bother to test him for cancer in the beginning, and only found the cancer when it was stage 4 and he had…
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What is An Nongovernmental Organization (NGO)? (AKA What Is Lena Working With This Week?)
When most people hear ‘the United Nations’ (and this applies to Model UN people too!), most will think: “A place where governments meet together and talk.” Well yes, on a basic level that is what the UN does. But it goes much deeper than that. The United Nations is composed…
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2017 Economic and Social Council Youth Forum
As the US has desended into mass protests, I sit in one of my favorite places on earth – the United Nations – and listen to hundreds of youth from around the world actively discussing one of the most pressing issues on the international stage: implementing the Sustainable Development Goals…
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Why the Muslim Ban Will Actually Help ISIS
Recently I was asked by a friend on Facebook why I believe the Muslim ban imposed by the new regime will actually help ISIS. And I ended up going on an insane rant. But it’s a rant because I feel really strongly about one of the key concepts behind it…
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January 20th, 2017
On this dark day in American history, I struggle like many of my fellow citizens. It hurts – truly hurts – to know that my country has chosen a man so morally deplorable; a man caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women, as if it is his right to have any…
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NewsRoom Clip
My own personal favorite TV quote about America. Its from Newsroom in 2012, and it is still so incredibly relevant:
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A Critical Political Analysis of Trump’s First 100-days Plan (PT. 1)
For those interested in the viability of Trump’s proposed plans (found here), here is a critical political analysis: PART I: “Term limits on Congress.” While the idea of term limits on Congress is appealing, the process is daunting. In order impose term limits in Congress, a constitutional amendment must be passed (the…
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The Election
When the US election results first rolled in, it was about 5am in Prague. I honestly couldn’t sleep that night, and my facebook/snapchat/whatsapp was filled with messages from friends around the globe commiserating at the election results. So when my dad said ‘Trump won’ all I could think is ‘….No.’…