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Interview With A Recovering Hippie Named Paulo Coelho
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — A new book by Paulo Coelho is always something to look forward to. His latest — and 20th book overall — is a "fictional" autobiography called Hippie. It's...
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Why Europe's Economy Still Can't Seduce Investors
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Spare a thought for the globe-trotting European stock salesman. Europe’s equities have seen 25 straight weeks of fund outflows, according to Bank of America-Merrill...
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Unraveling The Secret Of The Taj Mahal's Original Color
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE ALIGARH — There are more than 21 variations of the color white. The Taj Mahal is definitely one of them, but which one? Is it milk white? Egg white? Or Navajo white or...
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Teleworking In Japan: Antidote For An Overworked Nation
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER TOKYO — Japan has long been notorious for its culture of overworking. An OECD survey shows, as of 2017, a person in Japan worked an average of 1,710 hours annually,...
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Brazil's Destroyed Museum And Burning Questions Beyond
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH RIO DE JANEIRO — Protests are expected to continue after the fire early Monday that largely destroyed Brazil’s National Museum. The public’s anger at the blaze, which is...
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Bari, Port Of Yore
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The capital of the southeastern Italian region of Puglia boasts one of the largest ports on the Adriatic. On this scorching hot summer day, both human and cargo traffic...
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Watch: OneShot, A Ghost Town After Expulsion Of Immigrants
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT As nationalism and anti-immigration campaigns shake and split Europe, photojournalist Tommaso Bonaventura went last winter to a small village in southern Italy where...
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Meet The Tardigrade, Maxi Resistant Mini Species With Medical Potential
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Researchers in Colombia have discovered six new species of tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — a phylum of microorganisms considered the planet's most...
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Pope Francis, Cornered Between Vatican Conservatives And Trump Allies
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — Even admirers have noticed just how worn out and defensive Pope Francis now seems. As head of the Catholic Church, he is being squeezed from two...
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Crisis Or Coup? Trump Presidency At Risk From Within
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK — The New York Times published an extraordinary column this afternoon by an anonymous contributor identified as a “senior official in the Trump administration...
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Fast (School) Food! Chinese Students Forced To Eat Lunch Standing
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH BEIJING — Students at a high school in China's Henan Province were greeted to an uncomfortable surprise this week when they returned for the new semester. Come lunchtime,...
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Yemen And Egypt, A Close But Complicated Relationship
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR GOTHENBURG — I'm often asked: “Where do Yemenis escape to?" Syrians largely flee to Lebanon and Turkey, but where do Yemenis go? “The majority cannot afford to flee,” I...
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Watch: Willy Ronis And Photography's Most Celebrated Nude
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT PARIS — From fashion photography to documenting post-war Paris and Provence, French photographer Willy Ronis showed a virtuosity and versatility through his long career....
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Why The NAFTA Reboot Is A Raw Deal For Mexico
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — As lawyers sometimes say: "Better a bad settlement than a good fight!" I imagine that's what Mexican negotiators were thinking while...
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Niger, Inside The "Model" For Preventing Migration Into Europe
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY AGADEZ — Mahamane Ousmane is an unrepentant people smuggler. He makes no effort to deny having transported migrants “countless times” across the Sahara into Libya. When...
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Why Asia's Industrialization Model Won't Work For Africa
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — African governments and development agencies want nothing more than to see the continent industrialize. In the search for ideas about how to make that happen, Asia...
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A Victory For LGBT Rights In India — Just Not A People's Victory
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — While we have the Supreme Court to thank for the celebrations that will paint our safe urban spaces rainbow, let us be clear that this is not a result of a...
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Sourcing That Mango: Blockchain Brings Transparency To Food Supplies
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — It was the central subject of a farming conference this month in Argentina: How can blockchain help the agriculture sector? Blockchain is a data structure where...
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Exile Of Mind: To Be Young And Far Away From My Native Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR BERLIN — On the bus I now take to university in Berlin every day, I reach compulsively for my phone to check Facebook for updates from Egypt. I see that someone else has...
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David Foster Wallace, Finding Empathy Hidden In Red Tape
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace hangs himself in his California home. He is 46 years old and has suffered a life-long battle with depression. The...
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