Why The World Needs To Move On Without Trump
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — America is run by a carpet seller. Donald Trump negotiates on the international stage the way he did with building contractors and local communities back...
View ArticleVenezuela Is A Pariah State And Must Be Treated As Such
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Editorial- SANTIAGO — The Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, has been defeated on his own turf. International observers, numerous foreign press sources and the...
View ArticleWhat Voters Read In A Candidate's Face
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Can voters be swayed by a candidate's face? If they're young and undecided, then yes, researchers in Colombia have found. Psychologist Henry Castillo Parram,...
View ArticleBorder Row Is Bad News For Moroccan Workers In Algeria
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MAGHNIA — Already tense relations between Algeria and Morocco have taken a sharp turn for the worse of late, and pose a serious risk to the livelihoods of an estimated...
View ArticleVisiting The Murky World Of Underground Berlin
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — Schloßstraße, a busy shopping street in the west of Berlin, has all the big city essentials: shops, restaurants, cinemas and a theater. And yet, for a...
View ArticleWatch: OneShot, May '68 — The Police
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT This month marks the 50th anniversary of the May '68 uprising in France, a political and cultural touchstone in the West and one of the most memorable confrontations of the...
View ArticleIndia And Pakistan, A Virtual Return To History Of Shared Troubles
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE LAHORE — “We are all a part of the same rhetoric, the same story, which has been told to us very differently,” says Duaa Rehman, a freshman from the Lahore University of...
View ArticleLatin American Elections, A Mirror Of Global Unrest In 2018
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Another big crisis has erupted in Latin America. Nicaragua. This erstwhile member of the declining forces of so-called 21st Century Socialism is in fact the...
View ArticleIf Italy Crashes, Germany And The Whole EU Will Pay The Price
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -Analysis- BERLIN — While Brussels is palavering over a plastic tax that will never materialize, dark clouds are gathering over Europe. Right now, in plain view, the...
View ArticleMusical Family Portrait
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH This family was looking at musicians playing outside the beautiful Jain temple of Ranakpur, in western India. Only after pressing the shutter did I realize the kid had...
View ArticleWhy The Asian Economy Can't Escape Trump's Bad Choices
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER TOKYO — Since Japan’s fiscal year starts in April each year, it is in May that the country's major corporations announce their financial statements for 2017. Most...
View ArticleThe Female Factor In Senegal's Fishing Crisis
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY SAINT-LOUIS — Fatou Binetou Sarr sits, arms crossed and lips pursed, looking on as fishermen bring in the day’s catch. She’s with a group of women, all wearing long,...
View ArticleThe Mercantalist: Why Trump Economics Are Stuck In 17th Century
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump often seems as though he’s stuck in the '80s. But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era. Consider...
View ArticleThe Mercantilist: Why Trump Economics Are Stuck In 17th Century
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump often seems as though he’s stuck in the '80s. But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era. Consider...
View ArticleSpain To Senegal To Brazil, "Other" 1968 Movements To Remember
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Political conflict and social movements around the world in 1968 made it a year for the history books. The 50th anniversary of several signature episodes are...
View ArticleWatch: Oneshot — Happy Birthday Norma Jeane
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Happy Birthday Ms. Monroe OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot: Please continue...
View ArticleMohamed Salah, The Soccer Star Inspiring Egypt's Youth
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — In the year of Mohamed Salah’s rise to fame as one of the world’s best soccer players, his every move and success has been well documented across the globe, no more...
View ArticleBrussels Wakeup: Europe Must Find A Way To Work With Populist Extremes
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Analysis- BRUSSELS — It was a colleague from Agence France-Presse who set us thinking a few days ago, by retweeting an interview that Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of...
View ArticleTelegram: Why Russian Courts Can't Really Block The App
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — On April 13, a Russian court decreed an immediate blocking of the app Telegram across the country. The decision came after the refusal of Telegram to provide...
View ArticleBDS And Me: Time To Spread Boycott Of Israel Far And Wide
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — As someone who fully supports the Palestinian cause, it is challenging to write an article about boycotting Israel for fear of being dragged into the...
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