Category: Policy
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Seeing London, England
Seeing London London is home to one of the most ethnically diverse populations on the planet. Roughly one-third of Londoners are foreign-born, and while English is the primary language, more than 200 languages are spoken in this city alone. Walking the expansive city, it’s clear that London is a cultural junction of the world, something…
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War as Policy: The Russian – Ukraine Conflict Explained
This blog post comes in response to readers request for explanation on the Russian-Ukraine conflict. As the talk of war flashes across television screens, darkens the doorsteps of those in service, and is cause for concern for the United States, all of Europe, and the world as a whole, may this post help readers…
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Why Policy Matters: The Story of a Syrian Refugee
Dear Readers, This piece kicks off a mini-series about why policy matters, all from very real stories I have collected while traveling. My skin was warm from a day in the sun, my cheeks rosy from a strawberry mojito. The Portugal sun beat hot against caramel colored sand, revealing a perfectly smooth, turquoise seascape. Small…
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The Footage from Afghanistan: Scenes of Policy
We have all seen the picture. The one of the C-17 military aircraft loaded well past capacity with Afghans trying to escape the rapidly spreading reclamation of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. When we see the picture and the videos of the people fleeing in fear for their lives, each of us see’s something different. Some…
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Foreign Policy
Before we get started, it is important to recognize that foreign policy is both complicated and contentious. Our approach to foreign policy abroad is constantly evolving as relationships with other countries develop and global events change our necessary or chosen course of action. In order to adequately understand foreign policy, we would need volumes of…
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Domestic Policy
What is domestic policy? “Domestic Policy” refers to the decisions made and the actions taken by a national or state government to deal with the internal issues and needs of the country, within the country itself. Domestic policies affect or pertain to problems within the borders of a particular country, and can only be enforced…
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Policy: Facebook & Instagram’s Data Use Policies
When I was a younger writer, I submitted a few pieces of work to sites like Thought Catalog, and HelloGiggles, and almost immediately pulled my work back after reading the publishing policies. While my name would get credit on their site, I would lose all control of the content that was published, and could not…
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Policy Basics
Before we get started with discussing individual policies, it’s important we establish a working foundation of the basics of policy. In this article, I hope to break down policy to its core components. Policy is complicated at every level, even down to its basic definition – I know, because when I began this article I…
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I almost quit the blog. Here’s what happened instead.
Dear Readers, It was my hope to post this in January, utilizing the momentum of the new year. The reality of living abroad during a pandemic with a team that is located in several different time zones is that things sometimes run slow, and the renovation was actually a lot more work than we originally…
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Children’s Relationship to Overconsumption & the Environment
Dear Readers, When I began my research on factors that shape contemporary children’s rights policy, I made the assumption that the primary driving force behind children’s global rights atrocities would be directly linked to the health of the economy. I wasn’t wrong (and we will talk about that next week), but when root causes were…
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Current State of Children Globally: Policy Failures
The trending nature of child sex trafficking on social media outlets and the news suggests that the commodification of children is a new and rapidly growing issue relating exclusively to traffickers and pedophiles. This representation of child sex trafficking in fact stands in stark contrast to the statistical frequency of buying and selling children for…
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Abortion Reform: A Case for Data Informed Policy Decisions
Dear Reader, Before you begin reading this article already planning your attack on its content, assuming that it has anything to do with taking either the pro-life or pro-choice side, please know that the intention of this article is to talk about effective policy, not endorse or dismantle either side of the debate. I didn’t…
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Things to Remember Before (& After) the Election
As what has proven to be a stressful election is fast approaching, read this peaceful little excerpt.