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Have U.S.-Europe Relations Changed Forever?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — The 2008 financial crisis had forced the European Union and the eurozone to fire back with a new artillery of budgetary and banking mechanisms. "Economic...
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A Very Dangerous Man In The White House
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -OpEd- Donald Trump's first presidential press conference Thursday was ... something else. He ranted, he raved; he denied he was ranting and raving, which is even more...
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Grab Your Wallet, Taking Down Trump With A Retail Boycott
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Back in October, Shannon Coulter was doing some late-night browsing on the Nordstrom website. Before long, the small-business owner had a nagging...
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Uber Ugliness, From San Francisco To Sao Paulo
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Uber is a company built around maximizing customer service and experience — sometimes at any cost. Critics note that the price is paid by those providing the labor, the...
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"Tiny Chalet" Wonder, For An Ecological Swiss Ski Vacation
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS THYON — The doubts begin before departure: a family weekend usually means filling up the car, but a full car represents a quarter of the total volume of a "tiny house."...
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Universal Basic Income, 5 Experiments From Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 Imagine receiving a check from the government every month. The concept of guaranteed basic income for all citizens has been gaining prominence around the world, leading to...
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Beards, Windows, Chinese Migrants: A History Of Bizarre Taxes
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — Governments rarely have an imagination except in one area: taxes. There was even an Emperor Vespasian who created a tax on urine, a resource that was employed at...
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Zuckerberg’s Megalomania, A Big Brother Of Good Intentions
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -OpEd- SAO PAULO — I've just finished reading the manifesto Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the future of humanity. I laughed my way through to the end. But by the time I...
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In Xi Jinping’s China, The Cult Of Mao Comes Roaring Back
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO BEIJING — In Xi Jinping's China, it is again a risky proposition to openly criticize Mao Zedong. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought it had resolved the discussion in...
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Middle East, Of Political Dead-Ends And Scientific Hopes
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Will the world's oldest conflict ever be resolved? There have been a few fleeting occasions over the past 25 years when both Israelis and Palestinians appeared...
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How To Stop Trump From Creating The World's Biggest Tax Haven
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- PARIS — What does our next French president intend to do to build a modern tax system that's prepared for a globalized world? It's difficult to know, given how vague...
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How The Anti-Trump Movement Is Building For The Long Haul
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST MIAMI — It had all the trappings of a campaign rally: the signs, the Bruce Springsteen songs on repeat, the clipboard-hugging volunteers in matching T-shirts. But...
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On Labor, Language And Headscarves
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Most talk of the "changing nature of work" focuses on the shift to freelance labor, the fracturing of traditional office culture and the entitlement of pesky...
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Berlusconi Lessons Two Months Into The Trump Era
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — On February 1992 Italian prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro arrested Mario Chiesa, a member of the Italian Socialist Party, for accepting a bribe from a Milan cleaning...
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Hawaii To Holland, Populism Bumps In The Road
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The headlines this morning provide two bits of far-flung hope for those still shaken by Brexit and Donald Trump: the new version of Trump's travel ban applied to six...
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Merkel, Martial Arts And Trump
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The German press coverage of Chancellor Angela Merkel's first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday is occasion for all kinds of...
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Trump v. Trump, How His Words Undermine His Agenda
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — In blocking the administration's second attempt at a travel ban from terror-prone countries, a federal judge in Hawaii laid the blame squarely on...
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Wake Up Brazil! They’re Killing The Amazon Rainforest Again
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -OpEd- SÃO PAULO — Any Catholic who has attended mass since Ash Wednesday will have noticed that the Church in Brazil is very concerned about the country's...
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Happiness Ranking: From Oslo To Addis Ababa And Beijing
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH It's official: Norway has toppled Denmark to become the world's happiest country in 2017. Or, to put in local linguistic terms, the world's lykkeligste country. This...
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Seeing Warhol In Tehran? The Saga Of Iran's Modern Art Museum
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — It may be the best modern art collection you've never heard of. Inaugurated in 1977, the same year as Paris' Pompidou Center, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art...
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