“Sacrifice” in the Trump Era

Online Political Discourse in the Trump Era

We identify general trends in the (in)civility and complexity of political discussions occurring on Reddit between January 2007 and May 2017 – a period spanning both terms of Barack Obama’s presidency and the rst 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. We then investigate four factors that are frequently hypothesized as having contributed to the declining quality of American political discourse ...

Standing up for science in the era of Trump.

American Policy in Persian Gulf Region: Continuity or Change at the Trump Era

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

Transnational Environmental Law on the Threshold of the Trump Era

Since its inception Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) has focused on the complex web of interactions across national borders in addressing environmental issues, including but going beyond the traditional domain of international environmental law. The content of TEL has been diverse but has encompassed several pervasive themes: mutual influence between legal systems, multilevel integration, ...

The sacrifice precision method

Sometimes problems are only hard when the numerical quantities are arbitrary, complicated large integers. When these numerical quantities are limited to being small integers, the problems become efficiently solvable. (One way to formalize this is to consider these quantities as being specified in unary, and ask if the problem becomes polynomial-time solveable.) This is called being “hard in the...