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Thank you for visiting REDIRECT! On May 1, 2018, we "soft" launched our site: basically, this is our beta stage. We have wonderful articles of different formats and types waiting to be read, and that will continue to be uploaded for the next week. We have also geared a majority of our "People's Polls" to garner what formats you like most, and what topics you may be interested in reading about in the future. If you have a comment or a question, please let us know here, and until next time, happy reading!

::[The Latest]::

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RE: WHY WE CAN’T GET ALONG: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF POLITICAL POLARIZATION 
BY MATTHEW JORDAN & VIDUSHI SHARMA, MAY 1, 2018

Due to major historical changes—most notably the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions—we now live in a massively interconnected world with a plethora of complex problems. We have to figure out how to govern billion-person countries, untangle the legacies of racial and religious unrest, and contend with global environmental crises... [read more]

​​RE: "HOW DID WE GET HERE?": THE LONG HISTORY OF INHUMANITY PRESENT IN TRUMP'S CHILD SEPARATIONS ​
By Nathan John, published august 16, 2018

As is often the case during moments of national reckoning, politicians and armchair pundits alike have been forced to consider the difficult question of “How did we get here?”... [read more]
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RE: ITALY'S FACILITATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN LIBYA AND THE COLONIAL PAST
BY AARON ROBERTSON, MAY 1, 2018

On March 30, the Libyan coast guard and the ship Aquarius, operated by two international NGOs, received an alert from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center of Rome (MRCC). A rubber dinghy with nearly 120 people aboard had been spotted by a military plane in international waters near Libya... [read more]

RE: WHAT'S ALL THIS TALK ABOUT "PROGRESSIVE" PROSECUTORS?
BY CAMERON CLARKE & ARYN FRAZIER, ​MAY 1, 2018

State violence is visceral. Its forms are amorphous – physical, psychological, economic – and it occurs without pause at nearly every step of the criminal legal system. Though of course clear distinctions can be made in degree, be it surveillance, arrest, jailing, bail hearings, trial, imprisonment, solitary confinement, or the death penalty, the U.S. criminal legal system is not just a system that is broken – it is a system that was built badly, designed to malfunction and injure... [read more]
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