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If you’re an American, how you think about guns is usually related to three factors: What part of our country you grew up in; what you learned from your parents, relatives and friends; and whether you served in the military. Whether you or your family may have also been a victim of

This wasn't always the case, and the majority of students agreed that the U.S. used to be a force of good in the world.

If you travel abroad, you might check out whether or not the United States has issued a travel warning about the country you’re about to visit. Now, after two mass shootings occurred in less than 13 hours, resulting in 31 people dead and dozens of others injured, two countries have issued travel warnings about the U.S. The warnings are specifically about violence and hate crimes. Let’s start with Venezuela. Venezuela's Foreign Ministry issued a warning on Monday saying that residents should...

"We (The United States) will leave (the WTO) if we have to," said Trump to a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania on Tuesday

New York University professor Suketu Mehta recently published a book arguing that 'immigration is a form of reparations' for past American crimes.

Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas yesterday and another person killing at least 9 people In Dayton, Ohio early this morning. While these are outrageous and horrifying events, they aren’t surprising or shocking in any way in a country where more than 33,000 people die from gun violence each year. America is a stuck in a Groundhog Day loop of gun violence. We’ll keep waking up, stuck in the same reality of oppression, carnage, and...

Amid Brexit, the unpredictability of Trump's presidency ongoing conflicts in Yemen and Syria and countless other factors, the world is becoming less stable and increasingly fragile. Given the situation in 2019, Statista's Niall McCarthy notes that the results of The Fund For Peace's Fragile State Index is particularly interesting this year. Yemen has been named the most fragile state, ahead of South Sudan and Syria. Considering the political situation in both three countries their place at the...