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Opinion: Wombs for Rent: The History, Legislation, and Ethics of Surrogacy

February 27, 2025May 17, 2025 By Gracie Machell

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman, a surrogate mother, carries a child on behalf of another couple or individual without the

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Opinion: Will the Policies of Trump’s Administration, Over the Next Four Years, Resolve Global Tensions or Make them Worse?

February 21, 2025February 20, 2025 By Antonia Heath

Donald Trump appears to be adamant that he holds the ability and power to end two of the conflicts gripping the world today: the Russo-Ukraine war

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Explainer: Who are the M23 Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

More than 6 million people have been killed since the conflicts in the 1990s, with the same number displaced from their homes in the last four years alone.  

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Opinion: Trump’s Distrusting Relationship with ‘Mainstream Media’

February 11, 2025February 10, 2025 By Jack Williams

Donald Trump has constantly attempted to sow distrust into the media since he entered politics. This has had a destabilising effect on American

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America First? America on its own: A Critical Examination of U.S. Foreign Policy Dysfunction

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 By Zhanserik Temirtashev

As a looming government shutdown over the debt ceiling threatens domestic stability, U.S. foreign policy finds itself at a crossroads, marked by increasing dysfunction and

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Money Talks: is Wealth Undermining Democracy in the UK?

February 7, 2025February 6, 2025 By Lily Groves

Democracy is built on the concept that every citizen has an equal voice, yet wealth persists to shape political power in Britain. As economic inequality worsens, the risk of

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Opinion: What Else Will Depart with Trump’s Foreign Aid Cut? 

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

Initial results point to turmoil for the US’s international standing, with great threats to many of their domestic pledges.

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Opinion: Criminalising Explicit Deepfakes – a Step Towards Combatting Online Misogyny 

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 By Jade Effemey

‘Deepfake’ is a term that the majority of the technological world is now familiar with. By definition, it is artificial intelligence that can

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