Dog Bites Back: The Threat of Political Dissent in Hong Kong
By: Ed Lopez-Perez* Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching will need to find new jobs. The young lawmakers have Hong Kong’s High Court to thank, which on November 15 ruled that their oaths of swearing-in – seasoned with a healthy dose of inflammatory separatist rhetoric –...
WikiLeaks and the 2016 Presidential Election
By: John Perry Muth* WikiLeaks, founded in 2007, is a media organization that both hacks private documents and provides an anonymous way for sources to leak information to journalists, and eventually to the public. There is a long list of prominent stories...
United States and Russia: Outside Roles in Fueling the Syrian Civil War
By: Andrew Burchett* When the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, it triggered violence, from both protestors and the Assad regime. A protest led by teenagers who used graffiti to advocate for the end of the current regime in Syria was met with arrest and torture by...
The Case Against U.S. Intervention In Yemen
By: Usjid Hameed* The United Nations calls it the ‘forgotten crisis.’ With nearly half the population going hungry and 370,000 children at risk for starvation, Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest country, has collapsed under its civil war (Al Jazeera 2016). The conflict...
The Descent of Icarus: Air Strikes and Justice within the Evolving Context of War
By: Joshua Norris* Twenty-First century modern warfare, distinguished by an increased reliance on long-range air strike capabilities, is fraught with moral ambiguities and haunting dilemmas. With each air strike, strategic calculations are made on the part of civilian...
