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Image description: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Doha, Qatar, cite of US-Taliban peace talks In an historic moment, the United States signed a peace agreement with the Taliban. The move ends a conflict that had raged bitterly for the better part of two decades. Nearly five thousand troops are set to exit […]
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Image description: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab Boris Johnson’s government recently decided to reject the overtures of the US and allow Chinese technology giant Huawei to contribute on Britain’s 5G infrastructure. At first, I had mixed feelings. Yes, of course, there were the security concerns. Could […]
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Living abroad in the United Kingdom for the last few months, I’ve come to realize that despite no language barrier, the American and British cultures have many more differences than expected. More than fish and chips and extra letters in words, Oxford culture in particular provides a completely different lifestyle for university students compared to […]
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Image Credit: Ninian Reid/APTOPIX On October 6th, almost a year after the #MeToo hashtag first started trending on Twitter, Brett Kavanaugh became an official justice of the US Supreme Court. Protests ensued. Angry Americans stormed the steps of the US Supreme Court in Washington D.C. Some women cried, then wrote long Facebook posts urging their friends […]
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After the election I spoke over the phone with a friend of mine—a teacher at a progressive school in a progressive city in the U.S. She told me of the morning after, when all the faculty arrived early for a last-minute gathering. Their task: to figure out how to speak to children about the election […]
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On November 9th this year, tens of millions of Americans will wake up feeling absolutely indifferent to the result of their presidential election. Polling indicates currently that between 10 and 20 percent of the US electorate will vote for alternative candidates while the number not voting at all is expected to be well above the […]
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Sitting in the busy Oxford Union bar on a Wednesday night, the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history looks ever so slightly out of place. It’s not like the Union is any stranger to the great and the good of history; the numerous framed photos on the walls confirm that. Yet as we […]
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Underneath the controlled exterior, Hillary Clinton’s team must be frantically redesigning their strategy in a way that they could not have imagined almost a year ago. In the ten months between the announcement of her candidacy and the Iowa caucuses, the White House has predominantly been seen as hers for the taking – for some […]
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Charlotte Rampling, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o are all people who have had their say about what some will label the Oscars controversy. For the second year the Oscars have shown how little diversity matters to them, with not one single non-white person being nominated for any acting category. Some will argue […]
Continue ReadingYes – Claire Simms: Ever since the launch of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in June 2015, he has dominated the headlines in both the USA and the world at large. For a man whose commercial empire has been built upon publicity, Trump must be thrilled – exposure, both good and bad, can only aid his […]
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On January 12, Obama found himself for the last time delivering the State of the Union Address. Throughout the speech the President talked about the economic recovery, the Affordable Care Act, climate change and America’s standing in the world. But most importantly he talked about the future of the United States, In not so many […]
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In his last state of the union address Barack Obama renewed his commitment to “use every element of national power” to support the United States’ allies, and to “mobilize the world” to in order to tackle matters of global security. Although this statement seems straightforward enough, it begs the question: who are America’s allies, exactly, […]
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Over the course of approximately two months several University of Missouri students, including Missouri Student Union president Payton Head, alleged they were called a racial slur. Also during this time, a swastika drawn in feces was found in a university bathroom. While I will assume that these allegations of racist speech are true, it is […]
Continue ReadingFor the vast majority of us our time in Oxford is limited. For some it may be only a term or a year, for others three or more. But most of us will eventually have to leave the University and city behind as we explore our careers and the journey that life has in store. […]
Continue ReadingIn 1605, Englishman William Camden wrote, “All the proof of a pudding, is in the eating.” Later – perhaps because ten words was too long – this truism’s American cousin has devolved into the logically unconstrained, “The proof is in the pudding.” US media, covering both this week’s debate between Democratic Party candidates and the […]
Continue Reading“Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich.” As the contents of this week’s Comment section should go some way towards proving, the world is rapidly transforming into an episode of Black Mirror. The example under consideration in this article is, of course, Donald Trump, who provides this article’s epigraph, a quote […]
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