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Where Women's Liberation And Palestinian Liberation Meet
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- JERUSALEM — On Sept. 26, 2019, thousands of Palestinian women took to the streets demanding freedom, safety and a better future. The demonstrators turned out for...
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Disarmament To Rearmament: The Quiet Return Of Nuclear Risk
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — "Kolossal'naya opasnost." In a recent BBC interview, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev used those two words - "colossal danger" - to sound the alarm of the risk the...
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Meet The Doctor's Maid Who Inspired The Mediterranean Diet
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA CILENTO — She wrote the most significant chapter in the culinary history of Italy, and didn't even know it. And all because of a respect for tradition and visceral love for...
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Fernández v. Bolsonaro: Argentina-Brazil Trade Now At Risk
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — After some nasty verbal exchanges between Brazil's conservative leader, Jair Bolsonaro, and Argentina's socialist president-elect, Alberto Fernández, nobody...
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What The Data From France's Top Dating Site Tells Us About Love
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — When it comes to love and romance, everyone's ready to tell a little white lie to make themselves seem younger, thinner, or even bigger! These deviations from...
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Chile And The Paradox Of (Relative) Prosperity
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- LIMA — Defenders of Chile's economic model claim this was the first Latin American state to reach the threshold of prosperous, high-income countries. The...
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Loneliness: A Global Ailment Of Our Aging, Virtual Society
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — After reading last month's article "The Loneliness of Millennials" in Clarín, I must point out that this problem does not apply to any single generation. For...
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The Geopolitics Of Washington's Stand On Armenian Genocide
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — For the first time, the U.S. Congress has recognized the mass killings and deportations in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as genocide. So why now? It...
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In Italy, Confiscated Mob Villas Handed Over To Needy Families
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA BUCCINASCO — Giulia prepares lunch for her two-year-old son Luca and smiles. "It's nice here," the teenage mother says. Giulia, just shy of turning 18, is what Social...
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The Case For Creating A CO2 Central Bank
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- TOULOUSE — The question posed to us by climate change is no longer "what do we do?" — Reduce carbon emissions is what! — but "how do we do it?" The inflation of...
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Why India Is Lukewarm To Native Son's Nobel Prize In Economics
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Analysis- LONDON — Engaging the poor to understand their plight and choices might not be that Bohemian anymore. Indeed, a trio of development economists — Abhijit Banerjee,...
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Will Iran Step In To Suppress Lebanon And Iraq Uprisings?
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- For the past several weeks, Iraq and Lebanon have become the settings of major popular protests: a mix of people, coming from different religious and ethnic...
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In Senegal, An App To Tackle Violence Against Women
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE DAKAR — In the Place de la Nation, in the heart of Dakar, hundreds of Senegalese chant the words "doyna, doyna!" — "stop" in the local Wolof language. What the protestors...
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Evo Morales Has Only Himself To Blame
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Editorial- Nine years ago in América Economía, we published an editorial praising 'Evonomics,' the economic policies of the now deposed Bolivian president Evo...
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Unidentified Frying Object
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH When it comes to international cuisine, I must confess that I'm not that much of an aventurier. Amid the street markets of Indonesia, like elsewhere, I would much rather...
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Berlusconi's Last Dance: A Sharp Right Turn?
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -Analysis- ROME — Italy once had what was known as Berlusconiano voters. Conservative by virtue of social class, they were also skittish, indifferent, anarchic, and wary of...
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Partition, The Founding Wound Of Modern India That Won't Heal
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Essay- EAST DELHI — "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," announced Jawaharlal Nehru as the world ushered in a...
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A French Defense Of Trump's New Tariffs On European Products
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- PARIS — The United States announced a series of protective measures last month on a list of emblematic European products. The decision, made public on Oct. 3,...
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Colombia, No Country For Children
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Childhood isn't just a matter of being under a certain age. If minors are legal subjects with special protections, it is precisely because a state that...
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Inside Iraq's Tuk-Tuk Revolution
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR BAGHDAD — "I'm going out to claim my rights." This was the phrase posted by Iraqis on Facebook in the final days of September. Then on Oct. 1, mass demonstrations were...
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