By Clara Tipper

“Every individual should be empowered to make their own political opinion, given impartial and sufficient information. Further, a country’s government should reflect the diversities of its people - this is far from our current reality”

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By Calum Stewart

In this article, Calum explores Labour's pitch for second place in the Holyrood elections, and details a drinking game to get you through the results.

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By Hitanshi Badani

In this article, Hitanshi presents a brief introduction to India's ongoing farmer protests against the 2020 Farm Laws. She further analyzes the legal implications of these laws and how they underscore some of India's broader socio-political issues.

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By Joseph Daly

In this article, Joseph Daly discusses the potential impact of Alex Salmond’s latest vanity project on the Scottish Parliament elections.

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By Marina Damji

Marina explains how inequal vaccine distribution is exasperating inequality between high-income and low-income countries.

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Valentina explores the complex realities of debt diplomacy starting from a recent financing war for Ecuador between the US and China, and invites readers to question a geopolitical narrative that neatly corners countries into “good” and “bad”

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By George Watts

George offers a semi-satirical homage to the Lib Dem's democratic nosedive

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By Hilary Chan

“[A] shattering of her capitol on the 6th of January, 2021, should have curled ripples better quieted with words than stared at in confused anger. […] It seems only Polis to convert your fears into words, chain them into sentences, into a problem (an ~1000 word article) capable of collaboration […] It is the metaphors and descriptors, melodious or not, that enable a response in solidarity.”

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By Sara Weissel

“January 6th was a horrible day, and while my upset and hysterics were real, they were the product of inevitability rather than shock.”

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By Martin Caforio

“There is a direct connection between his shakedown phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to the President’s first Impeachment and his shakedown call of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he asks Election officials to “find” him the votes needed to overturn the State’s Presidential Election and steal its’ 16 Electoral Votes from the President-Elect, Joe Biden.”

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By Teia Swan

“In the midst of a monumental election, it is more crucial than ever to reflect on the ways in which the Trump Administration has embraced undemocratic behavior and recognize precisely what is at stake, should he be reelected for a second term.”

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By Joseph C.M. Daly

“If you didn’t think the Electoral College was bizarre enough as it is, just know that there are several trillion ways that 58 people could decide the next President of the United States.”

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By Laura Bennie

Really, what America should have is a new candidate, someone who is not just a return to ‘normal’ after the horror show Trump Administration, but someone who actually brings something new to the table, meeting this moment in America. But Joe Biden is what they have, so what reasons are there to vote for him?

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by Lia Da Giau

"As the clashes intensified and it became clear that it was more than just an attack, the two nations mobilized to respond to the situation. A war is not only about soldiers at the front: a whole population shares worries, fear and a sense of responsibility to contribute."

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By Grace Vollers

The danger in conspiracies is not necessarily what the theory claims, but how the user manipulates the truth through them.”

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Words by Hilary Chan, Interviews conducted by Julia Swerdlow

“What should our rector be like? That is a question I cannot answer for you, but we did get our potential rectors to answer the flip question, ‘What should the St Andrews student community be like?’ We are a generation of students in a climate of crisis: the climate crisis itself, the revelation of systemic injustice, the tipping edge of a politics half-driven by social media.”

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By Sara Weissel

"I can try, going forward, to view the American government not as an infallible system filled with a couple of bad guys, but as a living, breathing organism that can and must become self-reflective enough to make the changes it needs for improvement.”

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By Amberly Ying

“In the span of a few months, we have already witnessed events totally alien to Hong Kong’s nature under this new legislation. Not only have protesters been stunned into silence with a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, but the corporate and international community have faced enormous difficulties while navigating through this 1984-esque Hong Kong.”

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By Lia Da Giau

“The social unrest in the United States is pushing many to reflect on both the historical and ideological factors that determine and sometimes justify racism in the country, and it is time for European states to undergo such a process too."

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By Christian Philips

"As such, the vast majority of political power was concentrated in the coffee fields and farms of the countryside rather than the halls and chambers of government offices."

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