Incumbent President Vladimir Putin clinched a resounding victory in the 2018 Russian presidential election earlier this year on March 18th, winning 77% of the vote. Unsurprising to experts and observers around the world, Putin’s landslide victory ushers the nation into another 6-year term with an all-to familiar leader at the helm. This electoral feat makes […]
Archives for August 2018
Political Theater and the Promise of Progress
“I heard you had your early-morning sleep disturbed many times because you had to attend the N.S.C. meetings because of us,” Mr. Kim said with a smile, “Getting up early in the morning must have become a habit for you. I will make sure that your morning sleep won’t be disturbed.” “Now I can sleep […]
Taiwan’s Cultural Divergence From China
For those who don’t know, here is a quick background on Taiwan. Taiwan has been an independent country since 1950. China, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a rebel region that has to be reunited with the mainland. China is willing to use force upon Taiwan in order to achieve reunification. The Nationalist government, […]
America’s Fatal Fixation on Guns
There are many people who can attest to the brutality and horror of the shooting two months ago in Parkland, Florida. No account is more chilling than those of the medical professionals who worked to save the young victims, but in the end could not. When a body is struck by a bullet from a […]
Bhutan’s Blueprint for Bliss
As a U.S. presidential candidate, Robert Kennedy once said that the gross domestic product (GDP) of a country “measures everything except that which is worthwhile.” Although his message that materialism does not measure all that we want rings true to many people, today there are still few policy frameworks that recognize money as what it […]
Trans Discrimination as a Cost of Gender Administration
Do you ever think twice when you check the M (Male) or F (Female) box on official documents, surveys, health papers, or just about any form? How much does that box affect your life, or does it not affect you at all? There are at least 1.3 million US citizens who worry about those checked […]
Say No to Designer Babies
This article is the second in a series on twenty-first-century ethical issues related to human genetics. To read the previous article, click here. Human reproduction is a roulette wheel, a game of chance in which the child embodies bits and pieces of their biological parents, forming a never-before-seen fusion of the two people. The element […]