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A Call To Philosophers: Join The Fray, Help Fix Our World
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — The Enlightenment seems to be taking a few steps backwards these days. The citizens of Britain voted against the idea of a unified Europe. Politicians in...
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The Wall Of Trump: Stand Your Ground, Pena Nieto!
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Editorial- SANTIAGO — Finally. The Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto reacted correctly to the new U.S. President Donald J. Trump, canceling the meeting they were...
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True Fiction: When President Trump Met President Le Pen
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH After the stunning Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election in the United States, all eyes now shift to the land of "liberté, égalité, fraternité" to see what modern...
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NGOs May Be Endangering The Very Migrants They Seek To Rescue
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- More than 4,500 people lost their lives off the Libyan coast last year. And yet, there have never been so many vessels carrying out rescue missions in the area —...
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How Can We Resist Donald Trump? Buy "Made In Latin America"
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — A video is being shared on WhatsApp. It shows charming scenes of the Mexican countryside while a familiar Mariachi song Son de la Negra plays. A caption...
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Perils And Convenience Of A Microchip Implant In Your Hand
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Big Brother, if and when he arrives, will start out looking small. Take that mundane office badge or key card you use to pass security before entering your office. Rather...
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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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