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Fred Steward The UK’s first Labour government in the 1920s was undermined by ‘fake news’. The Zinoviev letter, [...]
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John Holmwood In an article on the recent scandal associated with the radical journal, Third World Quarterly, which [...]
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Carolyn Chernoff Let’s mix metaphors: some kinds of research are cheerleading, inside baseball, and political footballs all at [...]
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John Drury and Selin Tekin Guven One of the things that sometimes happens after a disaster is that [...]
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Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Christine Garrington For Stephanie, getting tested for the hereditary breast cancer gene was something of [...]
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Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Do policy makers design welfare systems to punish claimants? By making welfare payments [...]
Read moreA Social Scientist Looks at the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Janet Salmons I became a social scientist in my high school biology class. I managed to negotiate conscientious [...]
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Oscar Gakuo Mwangi In this article, I argue that statelessness in the Kenyan context needs to be seen [...]
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