From Anne Frank To Le Pen, What's In A Name?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Today Donald Trump will deliver a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum for the National Day of Remembrance. Safe to say, there will be prepared remarks,...
View ArticleThe French Ambition, Inside Macron’s Remarkable Climb To The Top
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — "I have a feeling people are going to be talking about you." It was last Aug. 31, and newly installed Economy Minister Michel Sapin was speaking at the Bercy...
View ArticleNew FARC Soccer Club Aims To Ease Colombian Guerrillas Into Society
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — From "terror group" to soccer team. The FARC or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the communist guerrillas disbanding in a national peace deal, will...
View ArticleDark Times For Press Freedom, It's True
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- PARIS — Someone, somewhere will probably call this fake news. Reporters Sans Frontières, a Paris-based organization for the protection of journalists and free...
View ArticleNew Leader Of Le Pen’s Party Accused Of Gas Chamber Denial
Worldcrunch.com / LA CROIX PARIS — Far-right leader Marine Le Pen planned to spend the next two weeks trying to build her base, including more moderate voters, after clearing the first hurdle of the...
View ArticleIn "Another" Washington, Folks (Mostly) Sticking With Trump
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON (Indiana) — This city of 11,000, nestled among a handful of low hills rising from table-flat Hoosier farm fields, is 680 miles from the...
View ArticleGreenland, Victim Of Denmark's Linguistic Colonialism
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA COPENHAGEN — In the picturesque Danish capital, it's easy to overlook the men lying on public benches with a beer in hand, or assume they're immigrants from Southern...
View ArticleMacron v. Le Pen, A 200-Year-Old War Over Economic Philosophy
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — It so happens that the presidential election in France is taking place almost 200 years to the day after the first publication of On the Principles of Political...
View ArticleFour Years, 100 Days: The Hard Work Of Popes And Presidents
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Buenos Aires, 2013. At the ripe age of 76, Jorge Mario Bergoglio seems destined to wind down an illustrious career in the Catholic hierarchy as the widely...
View ArticleA Space Of Her Own: Pakistan’s Ladies Dhaba
Worldcrunch.com / KBR KARACHI — At Pakistan’s largest truck terminal in this city, drivers sip hot tea at a small roadside stall called a "dhaba" in between their shifts. The patrons share a common...
View ArticleTrump's Policy Toward Latin America Is Worse Than Just A Wall
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ –– For some time now, Latin America has not figured on the U.S. State Department’s agenda. If the continent did appear, it was at the bottom of the...
View ArticleUp Close With Dr. Zee, The Godfather Of Legal Highs
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG AMSTERDAM — Very few people know Dr. Zee's real name. There's a reason for that. The "godfather of legal highs," as The Guardian newspaper once dubbed him, knows...
View ArticleThe Invasion Of Symbolism, From Guernica To Invader
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- “This bull is a bull and this horse is a horse,” Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso once said of his iconic 1937 painting Guernica. Eighty years later, the...
View ArticleOde To Joy? Not Really. A Meditation On Europe
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER -OpEd- WASHINGTON — Late last summer, my wife and I took a ferry from Doolin, on the West coast of Ireland, to Inishmore, the smallest of the three Aran Islands. The tiny...
View ArticleTrump, Kim, Hamas, Putin: When Diplomacy Is Like A Crêpe
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- PARIS — Here in France, one learns that the first step to flipping a crêpe is to ensure the batter is cooked all the way through. Only then can you shake the...
View ArticleA Crazy Campaign! Q&A With French Reporter Camille Langlade
Worldcrunch.com / iQ PARIS — Five days ahead of the showdown between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in France's crucial presidential elections, Worldcrunch has asked Camille Langlade, a political...
View ArticlePyongyang Puts On A Modern Face But Misery Lingers
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA PYONGYANG — Every year North Koreans spend months preparing the capital for the country's most important holiday: the birthday of the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung. No...
View ArticleDuterte And Trump, When Tough Talk Leads To Deadly Action
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON, D.C. — During his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump boasted that "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and...
View ArticleWill The French Left Do The Right Thing?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — The French Left doesn't have a candidate of its own for the country's presidential election runoff on Sunday. The choice of the ruling Socialists, Benoît Hamon,...
View ArticleIn France, Why Children Of Immigrants Have Turned To Le Pen
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE COULOMMIERS — In the working-class outskirts of Paris, people are counting. They count the number of houses now occupied by people from an immigrant background. "There are...
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