Tag: global affairs
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Before we begin to grapple with the gravity of the impeachment inquiry that is now upon us, can we acknowledge yet again the extreme weirdness of our times? If, through… more ›
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Five years ago, protesters were critical of even breaking windows. Now, some are throwing firebombs. The slogan is a call for the protesters to remain united, even as different factions… more ›
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IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — His voice crackling over what he complained was a “terrible” sound system, Donald J. Trump in September 2015 heaped praise on the oligarch who had invited him… more ›
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TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing… more ›
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A palm-fringed ridge rises above the plains of Alagoas in north-east Brazil. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/20/history-of-free-african-strongholds-fires-brazilian-resistance-to-bolsonaro more ›
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CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›
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From developments in skyscraper architecture, green energy and driverless transport to social divides within cities and with nations, manufacturers clinging on in the margins and China starting a new metropolis… more ›
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In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›