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This little essay in 1,000 words explains why one American demographic wallows in such deep despair that its life expectancy has been growing shorter. While addictions have largely
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This 2,000-word essay glances at contemporary American politics and concludes that both the White House and to a large extent, the Congress, suffer from blindness to the deep
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Bullying in general means intimidating or overpowering someone weaker. Racial bullying refers to bullying based on race or country-based discrimination, which is called xenophobia. Bullying severity ranges from
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Several Western nations, including the United States and Britain, face disruptive political change due to strong nationalism. The main alternative to nationalism is globalism. However, nationalism has been
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‘America First’ was the major theme of the President Trump’s inaugural address. Only 1,400 words long, it’s implications produced shockwaves around the world. A news article by the
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What does it mean to live and die? Those are two separate questions but the answers tend to be linked. Questions of the meaning of living and dying
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Social suffering has become a common label for the suffering of a group of people who serve as targets of disdain, hate and cruelty by another group or
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The year 2016 may be remembered as the year that right-wing populism grabbed a foothold in the English-speaking West. Donald Trump won the US election and the UK
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Recent reports on global human progress over the past 50 years claim the world is getting better, but they give only a small piece of the story. The
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