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U.S. Midterms: A First Umbrella After The Trump Tsunami
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON — On Tuesday night, America stepped back from the abyss. It was not, perhaps, the overwhelming repudiation of President Trump’s vulgar,...
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My South African Spider Safari
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Our trip to South Africa took us to Kruger National Park, where we got great views of zebras, crocodiles, giraffes — you name it. But we got closest of all to this little...
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In Medellín, A Scavenger's Dump Turned Community Garden
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR MEDELLÍN — In this sprawling Colombian city, a mountain of trash has evolved into a home and source of income for some 50,000 families. It is called Moravia, and has...
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#MeToo And Due Process — How It Looks In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — This is the age of absolutes. Absolute majorities, totalitarian governments and extremist ideas that allow for no difference of opinion. In this age of...
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How Bolsonaro's Brazil Will Turn Latin America Upside Down
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — On the Monday after its presidential election, Brazil's incoming economy chief, Paulo Guedes, let all of us know that Mercosur, the regional trading...
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Stop Victim-Blaming Egypt’s Copts
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -OpEd- CAIRO — Following last Friday’s attack on two buses and a microbus in Egypt’s Minya governorate, killing at least seven Coptic Christians and injuring 16 others,...
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The Myth That Strongman Regimes Are Good For Business
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — And then, Brazil. The list of countries that are switching to so-called “strongman” regimes keeps growing. Vladimir Putin's Russia, Recep Tayyip...
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Watch: OneShot — 100 Years Ago, Marking End Of World War I
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT November 11, 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The signing of the Armistice brought to an end the war that Ernest Hemingway called "the most colossal,...
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American Sanctions Are Back On Iran — Will It Work?
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — Thousands of students marched through Tehran last weekend, and state television broadcast the protest march live. The crowd burned U.S. flags and pictures of...
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Informal Banking Helps Kenyan Women Find Financial Autonomy
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY BUBISA — Orge Konchora always wanted her children to get an education, but her husband's modest salary as a driver wouldn't cover school fees —and she knew she had to...
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Why Mexico's Economy Needs More Than Just A Balanced Budget
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — The big lesson from Mexico's crises from the 1970s to the '90s was that economic stability depends on balanced public finances. Every time...
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Juiceless And Useless, How Philippe Starck Changed Design
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Juicy Salif is a lemon squeezer made of polished aluminum, standing 29 centimeters high, and designed in the 1990s by France's Philippe Starck. It is also...
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How Brexit Has Ignited Some Serious EU Peace And Love
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — While Brexit uncertainty continues with “last-chance summit” after “last-chance summit,” the hard questions are becoming more difficult to avoid with each...
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Archeology Or Apathy: Digging For Dinosaur Relics In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE MANAWAR —The fossil of the cidaris looked like a self-embroidered Christmas ornament. It was the relic of a slate-pencil sea urchin, or cidaris, a punk-styled marine...
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Retro Sports Diplomacy: Adidas And The Iron Curtain
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — The past snuck up on Adidas last spring when it issued a retro jersey for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia that copied the last Soviet Union national...
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Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Essay- PARIS — For a number of years, more and more French novelists have succumbed to a pair of troubling trends. The first is the reality-show novel, a degraded form of...
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Solar Power: Researchers Map Out Colombia's Sunshine Hotspots
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — If the world hopes to avoid the nightmare climate-change scenario spelled out in recent weeks by the IPCC, it must act quickly to embrace renewable energy...
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Post-Midterms: Washington Cocktails And Balkan Philosophy
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — On the night of the midterm elections, my wife and I organized an open house, inviting friends and people from all walks of life to watch the results. The TV was...
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China, Spain, Latin America: A New Growth Axis in Global Trade
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA SANTIAGO — The current uncertainty in international relations creates inherent new opportunities for global trade. None is more ripe than the three-way axis that...
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Brexit: Why Theresa May Never Stood A Chance
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — Theresa May can only lose. The British Prime Minister is fighting alone against a grand alliance of conspirators, poisoners, and wire-pullers, supported by...
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