Tag: global affairs

• Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope

  July 15, 2020

  For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-a-sane-person-jia-tolentino-book-2020-hope more ›

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›

• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• America’s Enduring Caste System

  July 1, 2020

  We saw a man face down on the pavement, pinned beneath a car, and above him another man, a man in uniform, his skin lighter than the man on the… more ›

• Replacing CFA with Eco ‘challenges the sovereignty’ of Nigerian naira

  June 30, 2020

  The Francophone countries coming together to replace the colonial currency, the CFA Franc with the Eco, may be “a major step forward and a positive thing,” says Andrew S. Nevin,… more ›

• From the Magazine: ‘It Is Time for Reparations’

  June 28, 2020

  It feels different this time. Black Americans protesting the violation of their rights are a defining tradition of this country. In the last century, there have been hundreds of uprisings… more ›

• Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful

  June 27, 2020

  The first question I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates during our recent conversation on The Ezra Klein Show was broad: What does he see right now, as he looks out at the… more ›

• [Letter from Kashmir] Valley of Unrest, by Sonia Faleiro | Harper’s Magazine

  June 27, 2020

  Baramulla, a city on the Jhelum River, thirty miles northwest of Srinagar, Kashmir. All photographs from Kashmir, August 2019 © Abid Bhat. Bhat’s work was supported by the Pulitzer Center… more ›

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• The push to redefine “good design” amid the Black Lives Matter movement

  June 27, 2020

  Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. In 2015, Nextdoor, the location-based social networking app, gained a reputation as a locus of racial profiling. Users were sending alerts… more ›