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ARTICLES, ALL UNDER 800 WORDS.
The US Judiciary Branch Explained
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
Female Athletes and Their Portrayal in Media
- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Yemen Humanitarian Crisis
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Life in Incarceration
- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Declining Civic Engagement
- Oct 25, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQ+ Mental Health
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Homelessness in Seattle
- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min
What are Constitutional Rights
- Sep 17, 2020
- 2 min
Femicide in Turkey
- Sep 13, 2020
- 3 min
Mental Health Care in the US
- Sep 12, 2020
- 3 min
The Green New Deal
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Shark Fin Trade
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
Behind the US Census
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
Uyghur Concentration Camps
- Aug 29, 2020
- 3 min
Minority Mental Health
- Aug 26, 2020
- 3 min
Environmental Racism
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
What was Watergate?
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
Police in Schools
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Child Trafficking in the U.S.
- Aug 15, 2020
- 4 min
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Aug 11, 2020
- 3 min
What is ICE?
- Aug 9, 2020
- 3 min
The Blue Wall of Silence
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Racial Wealth Gap
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
DACA and the DREAMers
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
Trump's Impeachment: Simplified
- Jul 30, 2020
- 4 min
The Contribution of Top Corporations to Climate Change
- Jul 26, 2020
- 4 min
Menstrual Stigma
- Jul 23, 2020
- 4 min
What Is the Electoral College?
- Jul 15, 2020
- 3 min
Redlining
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Stonewall Riots
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Modern Slavery
- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
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