Tag / Great Britain
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The Borders Around Our Own Empathy
When a suicide bomber detonated at an arena concert in Manchester in May 2017, it shook America to its bones. A little more than a week later, when a car bomb exploded at a busy market in Kabul, Afghanistan, America merely shivered. Terrorist attacks are ubiquitous and hard to keep up with, and an individual’s…
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A Primer on the Scottish Referendum
BY THE WUPR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF On September 18th, Scots will go to the polls to vote on independence from Britain, the first time the question has been brought to a vote since they became part of the United Kingdom in 1707. The referendum seems to have snuck up on British politicians, who have mounted a last-ditch…
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