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The Motivations Behind the "Sectarian Killings" in Syria
Gunfire erupts in a crowded street as masked men in the back of a military truck unleash a barrage of bullets.
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Hollie McKay
What I say when people ask: what can I do to change the world?
To Raven,
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Hollie McKay
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Understanding "Birth Tourism": A Thriving Business in a Legal Gray Area
A tearful Phoebe Dong, speaking in court, recalled growing up under Communist China’s one-child policy, saying the government forced her mother to have…
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Hollie McKay
The War That Won’t End? Turkey’s Conflict with the Kurds Faces a Turning Point
For more than four decades, the conflict between Turkey and Kurdish forces has defined life in northern Syria, with airstrikes, military operations, and…
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Hollie McKay
The Man with the Golden Arm and the Quiet Power of Kindness
True heroism often goes unnoticed.
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Hollie McKay
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There Was No Promise to Russia of “No NATO at Its Borders.” This is what really happened.
The narrative that NATO expansion violated a promise made to Russia at the end of the Cold War is one of the most persistent myths in modern…
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Hollie McKay
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Saving Lives, Securing Influence: The Case for Americans Helping Others
USAID needs a clean up, but it should continue its important work
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Hollie McKay
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February 2025

The Death Penalty Debate in America
The debate over capital punishment in the United States was reignited when President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row…
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Hollie McKay
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The Problem with ‘Not Our Problem’
A child does not choose where they are born.
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Hollie McKay
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Over 150 Women Raped and Burned Alive in a Congo Prison—It Doesn't Make the News.
Grainy video footage, shot from above barbed-wire fencing, captures the frightening chaos — figures scrambling in the gloom, smoke billowing into the…
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Hollie McKay
What Many Misunderstand About the War in Ukraine
I arrived in Kyiv in the early, frigid hours of late January 2022, just weeks after leaving Afghanistan.
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Maternal Mortality in the Developing World: A Preventable Tragedy
The air was thick with dust and sorrow as I walked through the village cemetery on the Sudan-Chad border—row after row of tiny mounds stretching…
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Hollie McKay
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