Folks, We Will Be Just Fine Without Net Neutrality
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -OpEd- NEW YORK — Eliminating net neutrality is, in the best and worst case scenarios, either necessary to keep the internet up and running, or will lead to a...
View ArticleSantería And The Spiritual Soul Of Socialist Cuba
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO HAVANA — The sound of drums invades a devastated street in Centro Habana, the Havana neighborhood most affected by Hurricane Irma, which unleashed her fury on the old,...
View ArticleFrom Around The World, 8 Real Ways To Fight Fake News
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — This video of Barack Obama is both real and not real. It's an excerpt of the former U.S. president during an official appearance, and the words he utters are things...
View ArticleWhere Indian Camels Are As Sacred As Cows (But Vanishing Fast)
Worldcrunch.com / KBR Two camels adorned with orange saddles, nose pegs and tiny bells tied to their legs are pounding their hooves to the beat of drums. A 35-year-old-local performer Kanjo leads them...
View ArticleTrump For Christmas, A Grim Update For My Friends In Europe
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — Just a month into Donald Trump’s presidency, my European friends and colleagues were already asking what I thought of the unusual behavior of 45. As I’m no expert...
View ArticleGeneration Putin, Taking The Temperature Of Russian Youth
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT SAINT PETERSBURG — Street protests in Russia over the past year have turned very much into a youth movement. But the increasing presence of university activists, and even...
View ArticleAustria-Hungary And Far-Right Echoes Of History
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Is this the “return of Austria-Hungary”? Following the formation of the new right-wing government in Vienna, acknowledging the like-minded leadership next door...
View ArticlePsychedelic King Arthur
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Glastonbury Abbey, in southern England, is held by some as King Arthur's final resting place — the mythical Avalon. When I photographed his fabled tomb, I was...
View ArticleCost For Trump Taking On China Will Land Flat On U.S. Economy
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is breaking with recent U.S. convention by portraying China as a rival that wants to undermine American prosperity. But it may...
View ArticleTo Brexit Or Not To Brexit, Is That Still A Question?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — “I never go anywhere without my Irish passport anymore, you never know!” My British friend is very happy about his dual nationality. Since the victory of...
View ArticleThe Coolest Set, A Local Eye On Hollywood's Iceland Invasion
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS DJUPAVIK — About a century ago, farmers from the remote region of Arneshreppur didn't know the value of money. In general, bartering was still the only source of survival in...
View ArticleWhere Is My Cousin? As ISIS Retreats, Syrians Await News On Prisoners
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY Back in August 2013, the so-called Islamic State group kidnapped my 29-year-old cousin Samar Saleh. Since then, I have been waiting for the day that ISIS prisons are...
View ArticleA Day Of Economic Infamy, Trump And Republicans Undo History
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Dec. 20, 2017, will live on as a day of disgrace and dishonor. It will be remembered as the day when a government of, by and for the people became a...
View ArticleWhy They Leave, Understanding Immigrant Psychology
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The latest disturbing images along the modern immigrant journey arrive from the French-Italian border. Five migrants from the Ivory Coast, in flip-flops and soaked...
View ArticleWatch: OneShot — Gun Rally At The Alamo
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Gun rally at the Alamo, 2013 (©Nina Berman/NOOR) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow...
View ArticleDonbass Blues, The Forgotten Conflict In Eastern Ukraine
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO KRASNOHORIVKA — The sound of canon fire has become more distant of late in Krasnohorivka. But the war continues to haunt Lioudmila Sidonnka. The young mother's stories are...
View ArticleA Sitting Mission, Meet India's Toilet Man
Worldcrunch.com / KBR NEW DELHI — There's a celebration taking place in the small town of Marora, in the northern state of Haryana. Dozens of school girls sing. Boys shout out slogans. And at the...
View ArticleFacebook Limits, When A Sharing American Lands In Germany
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT -Essay- “Germans are coconuts, Americans peaches...” In the German Studies department at the University of Michigan, this saying bounced around as a shorthand way for us...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous City In Mexico For Women
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH In late November, three sisters aged 10, 11 and 12, were raped as they lay sleeping in their beds, and the eldest, Nahomí Galindo, was killed. The girl's murder brought...
View ArticleAmazon v. MercadoLibre: Latin America's Online Retail War Heats Up
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — With a simple registration process completed in Buenos Aires, in November, the online retailer Amazon quietly but officially planted its heavy foot in...
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