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Failure of U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Was Predictable — but Military Strikes Create Many Unknowns

By Nina Srinivasan Rathbun

A lot of this optimism appeared to have dissipated by the time the two sides held another round of talks on Feb. 26. While mediator Oman’s negotiators continued to talk of progress, the U.S. side was noticeably silent. Reporting since has suggested that Trump was displeased with the way the talks had gone

Despite Substantial Representation, Pop Culture Is Still Harsh to Women

By Allison T. Butler

We are encouraged to look at the success of individual women as evidence of a success achievable by all women. Instead, this individual success is indicative of just that: Individual success within a system organized to keep the majority of women subordinate. Society constructs their roles in ways that reinforce patriarchy by simultaneously centering and silencing their contributions.

The Super Bowl Halftime Show: Insight Into the Biggest Musical Performance of the Year

By Garrett Hartman

Even if Bad Bunny wasn’t one of the most-listened-to artists in our country, the tastes of Americans aren’t the only consideration. International audiences are the largest potential audience for the NFL. Yes, American football is our phenomenon – its global appeal is a different reality.

Trump’s Greenland Threats Are an Implicit Rejection of the Legal Principles of Nuremberg

By Michael Blake

This view of warfare is radically different from the one championed by the U.S. for much of the 20th century. Most notably, it repudiates the legal principle that informed the Nuremberg trials: that military force cannot be justified on the basis of national self-interest alone.

Do Comedians Have a Civic Duty?

By Angelo Franco-DeWitt

Politics will continue to produce absurdities at a breakneck pace. Power will continue to inflate itself into balloon-animal shapes begging to be popped and comedians will continue to decide whether to wield the pin. As audiences, we have the power to lend them our eyeballs or not.

Iranian Protesters Vehemently Reject the Islamic Republic as a Whole

By Kamran Talatoff

First, it rejects imposed solidarity. Many Iranians, including those sympathetic to Palestinian rights, resent being conscripted into conflicts that are not their own. And the government’s insistence that Iranians must make sacrifices for distant causes breeds resentment rather than unity.

Possible Scenarios for a Post-Maduro Venezuela — and What They Signal for the Region

By Robert Muggah

The reaction to the U.S. intervention from across the region was instantaneous. Colombia rushed troops to its frontier, bracing for potential refugees and denouncing the strikes as an affront to regional sovereignty. Cuba joined Iran, Russia and other foes of Washington in condemning the raid at the United Nations.

How the Fear of Catastrophic Addiction Propelled a Writer to Sobriety

By Emily Redondo

I don’t know why I spent so much time trying to insert logic and rational thinking into the insanity of addiction when it never made sense in the first place. That one decision to break the seal of sobriety I desperately tried to keep under wraps didn’t end until a few weeks later when I came out of a blackout in a hospital emergency room.

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