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Monthly Archives: August 2015

New Delhi’s Soft Power Push

31 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Harsh V. Pant Yale Global During his travels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a point of promoting India’s soft power – including Bollywood, Sufi music and yoga as […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Using Financial Sticks to Control Iran

28 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Juan Zarate & Chip Poncy The Washington Post As Congress considers the Iranian nuclear deal, it should also prepare a strategy to use U.S. financial and economic power aggressively […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?

27 August 2015by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]

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LAW

Arctic Oil: High Risk, Low Price

20 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Kevin McGwin The Arctic Journal “The Leiv Eriksson is perhaps the most controversial oil rig anywhere on the planet.” That was the assessment made in 2011 by Ben Ayliffe, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Nature of Finnish-Russian Relations

12 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Masha Gessen Harper’s Magazine Finns find it difficult to talk about the Winter War. Its history—both the official version in the schoolbooks and the unofficial version recalled by the […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

How Uber Could Help Change Spycraft

11 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Aliya Sternstein Defense One The intelligence community this month quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified five-year-roadmap charting the future of data analysis it wants commercial startups like ride-sharing firm Uber to read. […]

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NATIONAL SECURITY

The Impact of Fairer Sentencing for Crack Possession

10 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Lauren Kirchner Pacific Standard “First of all, let’s get one thing straight: crack is cheap,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer, defiantly, in a now-infamous 2002 interview. “I make too […]

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LAW

Can we Reverse the Aging Process by Putting Young Blood into Older People?

9 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Ian Sample The Guardian For much of history, people sought to halt ageing to achieve immortality – or at least to live for hundreds of years. These days, scientists […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?

7 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman, & Dana Goldstein FiveThirtyEight Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges […]

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LAW

Conserving Species with no Natural Habitat

5 August 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten Arctic Summer College The Arctic is most famous for its frigid expanses of snow and ice and the massive mammals that traverse these environments – e.g. polar […]

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