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How 21st Century Democracies Destroy Themselves From Within
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — The Intimate Enemies of Democracy is the name of a beautiful, profound book by the late Tzvetan Todorov, who died in 2017 and was one of the sharpest of...
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Behind The Crackdown On Independent Egyptian News Outlet
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR After Mada Masr published a Nov. 20 piece titled "President's eldest son, Mahmoud al-Sisi, sidelined from powerful intelligence position to diplomatic mission in Russia,"...
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Mexico: How Weak Institutions Paved The Way For One-Man Rule
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY - A viral tweet in October foresees the British prime minister flying to Brussels in 2192, to ask for another delay to the fateful Brexit...
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China's Next Step In Quest For Diplomatic Supremacy
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS BEIJING — China's ambition is to compete with the United States, not just on the economic front, but also diplomatically. The Asian giant's ambition to be a diplomatic...
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Revisiting The Science Vs. Religion Paradigm
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Essay- HYDERABAD — The realms of science and religion are opposite poles of the human experience. One deals with the material, the other the spiritual, and scholars have...
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Work In Progress: TikTok Hiring, CV Hacking, Pawternity Leave
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — We've seen the employee of the future … and she's pale, red-eyed and hunchbacked. A recent article and a spooky life-size doll named Emma showing what can happen...
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Undercover Hunt In Italy's Black Market For Sperm Donors
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA In Italy, medically assisted procreation is restricted to heterosexual couples, but websites for would-be mothers have proliferated. Our journalist posed as a woman seeking...
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For Brazil And Argentina, How To Respond To New Trump Tariffs
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES - The decision by President Donald Trump to reimpose tariffs on Argentine and Brazilian steel and aluminum exports, as a response to the two countries'...
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A Democratic Imperative Of The Technology Revolution
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Everyone talks about how we're in the midst of a technological and scientific revolution that's rapidly transforming our world in ways that exceed...
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For Whom The Notre-Dame Bell Tolls
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH I'm not sure the exact date, but it was the month of July when my then wife-to-be Claudine and I climbed the 400 steps of Notre-Dame, only to be startled by the sudden...
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France: Strikes And The Social Fractures Of Retirement Reform
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — Well, off we go, headed who knows where, for who knows how long. The actors in this national drama on retirement reform are all in place, each playing a...
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Enemies Past And Present? How The NATO Summit Looked In Russia
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT -OpEd- MOSCOW — Despite the predictions before this past week's NATO summit of a major split in the alliance, and some awkward moments among its respective leaders, the...
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Seduction Reset In Buenos Aires: The New Rules Of Engagement
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — The rules of the game have changed. In fact, they're changing even as I write this. The #MeToo movement and more recently, No is No, have impacted the way we...
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Ivory Coast Tries To Keep Terrorists From Crossing Border
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE KORHOGO — It's a delicate operation. Commander Roland Seahet of Gohouo repeats the instructions to the Fourth Battalion of Korhogo, a city in the north of the Ivory Coast....
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In Egypt, Signs Of Hope And Reasons To Despair
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Analysis- CAIRO — Can we venture to declare that Egypt has arrived at a new and dangerous turning point? Yes and no. For although nothing significant has materialized...
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Pope Offers A Sumptuous Palace To The Homeless Of Rome
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA VATICAN CITY –– While several Vatican buildings are embroiled in scandal, a few meters away from the colonnade of St. Peter's Square the "Palazzo Migliori" is becoming a...
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In Beef-Loving Argentina, The Hunt For A Lab Meat Alternative
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — You can make meat in four weeks. In other words, instead of raising cattle in the countryside for more than two years, you can obtain a similar product from a...
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When Zelensky Met Putin : How It Looked In Kiev, Moscow, Paris
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — They are called the "Normandy Four," an allusion to the Normandy region where the plans for future peace negotiations between the four parties was first proposed....
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Watching Impeachment, Mocking India's Broken Democracy
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Essay- NEW DELHI — If you have been watching the televised proceedings of the U.S. Congress' House Judiciary and the Intelligence Committees pertaining to the impeachment...
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The Uniquely French Art Of Blocking Reform, Myth Or Reality?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS –– Like in previous social movements, a cliché haunts the current public debate over the strikes and pension system reform: the French are the only ones, at least in...
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