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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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After Arab Spring, Tunisian Police Brutality Is Back
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS (TUNISIA) TUNIS — Six years ago, the Tunisian Revolution sparked the Arab Spring uprisings and overthrew the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his notoriously violent...
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Turkey And Europe, Time To Take Erdogan To Task
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -OpEd- PARIS — There is, of course, a serious measure of calculation in the recent posture and remarks of Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at European leaders. On April 16, the...
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Shooting Blind, How I Mastered Photography After Losing My Sight
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -Essay- PORTO ALEGRE — I was born in the state of Rio Grande do Sul but I left my hometown when I started looking for work. When I was 19, I got a job in a shoe...
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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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Alternative Path To Middle East Peace? Israel Should Join EU
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — The two-state-solution is not, as most of us would think, a new idea. It is 80 years old, to be precise. It is based on the idea of a British commission and...
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A President’s Downfall, Nepotism And A Ghost Town In Sri Lanka
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS HAMBANTOTA — This city in southern Sri Lanka has a port, a cricket stadium, and an airport. But with only about 11,000 residents, Hambantota feels like a ghost town. There...
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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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Aging Taiwan And The Doubts Of A Faraway Daughter
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — Last month, I made my annual trip back to Taiwan around the Chinese New Year to see my parents. My mother, who is 86, has not being doing too badly even though she...
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Garden Of Mormon Eden
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Taking a break from visiting Salt Lake City's landmarks (including the Salt Lake Temple you can see in the background of this picture), we enjoyed a nice walk in the lush...
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Want To Get Rid Of Toxic Politicians? Ignore Them
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ - We often confuse a phenomenon with its causes. We’re in the 21st century but we still believe that the problems we face are due to political...
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Want To Teach In This Congolese City? Better Get Baptized
Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL BENI — During a recent morning mass at a church in this northeast Congolese city, the pastor had a sort of job announcement for his congregants: The local school...
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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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Italian Magazine: Behind Bars Of Trump Presidency
Worldcrunch.com / IL SOLE 24 ORE Il Sole 24 ORE magazine, March 17, 2017 — Photo: Charles Ommanney "The Closing Of The American Mind," reads the April cover of Il Sole 24 ORE's monthly magazine IL....
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Generation Porn, How The Internet Shapes Youth Sexuality
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Fear is Daniel’s constant companion. The fear of relapse, of falling back into his old addictive habits is not unjustified because it would be all too...
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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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Online Resistance In Turkey
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO ISTANBUL — The smartphone's video camera zigzags through the crowd. Amid a joyful brouhaha punctuated by applause, the young videomaker captures the first smiles and the...
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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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A Global Competition For Influence In Ethiopia
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ADDIS ABABA — On the flight from Rome to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, flight attendants hand out Chinese-language magazines. And in the city's Bole International...
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