Candidate Moon Jae-in: The good, the bad and the ugly
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed the impeached president, Park Geun-hye, from office, and a general election for the new...
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The Echo Chambers of the Internet
“(Technologies such as social media) lets you go off with like-minded people, so you’re not mixing and sharing and...
Too Much Politics: The South Korean presidential crisis
The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye in December with a 234-56 vote, shattering the mandated 200-vote...
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable....
Leaderless Spain: Ten months without an elected government
On November 3rd, 2016, Mariano Rajoy was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Spain. It was a long and...
How Liberals Learned to Love Fox News
Fox News was born from a desire to counteract a perceived bias in the US media landscape. Its recently...
Cadres and Trials – How top Chinese officials get purged
Friday the 13th of May 2016 was a bad day for Ling Jihua. The former top aide to Hu...
Drumpf’s Yellow Perilism
During a rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 1st, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that the...
Glory Days Ahead for Korea’s Filibuster?
The filibuster, a procedure used by legislative bodies around the globe to block or delay bills, is unfailingly a...
Beijing, what shall you do with Hong Kong?
After a tumultuous year of protests, Hong Kong (HK) is no longer making headlines. Beijing has been able to...