Tag: global affairs
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In the very near future, maybe in ten years, we’ll have earpods that will do real time language translation. Someone speaks Greek to you, and with the slightest delay, you’ll… more ›
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On an early summer’s evening on the outskirts of Basel – a city almost certainly in Switzerland, but sometimes in France and occasionally Germany – hundreds of well-heeled men and… more ›
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On a warm late-May afternoon, I took a taxi to the outskirts of the Russian capital to the Moscow State Institute of… more ›
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Playing for Team Human today, activist, journalist, and science fiction author of the new anthology Radicalized, Cory Doctorow. Cory has a unique way of building stories, metaphors, and scenarios… https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-oligarchys-operating-system-with-cory-doctorow-5f3af6058af8 more ›
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Walking down 69th Street in Englewood, Chicago, near where she grew up, Michelle Rashad gestures to a rundown retail shop, across from a long open lot. “At this store, there’s… more ›
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For the past few days, my social media feed has been overwhelmed with comments, opinions, and notes about the announcement of Libra, Facebook’s new global blockchain protocol and cryptocurrency. A…… more ›
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HONG KONG — The moment the 25-year-old protester got home from demonstrations that turned violent — tear gas still stinging her eyes — she knew what she had to do:… more ›
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HONG KONG—Bonnie Leung and members of the Civil Human Rights Front have reason to feel triumphant. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/06/hong-kongs-protests-leader/591820/ more ›
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Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›
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A cache of leaked documents appear to show how a close Putin ally is leading a push to turn Africa into a strategic hub with echoes of Soviet-era zones of… more ›