Why Americans Still Haven't Mastered The Work-Life Balance
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON — Americans love to contemplate - and legislatively promote, to whatever degree possible - the virtue of hard work. Here in the United...
View ArticleCali Murder Inc, A Colombian Drug Cartel War May Be Back
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR CALI — Does a recent spike in murders in the western Colombian city of Cali — 19 in one April weekend alone — mean the return of organized crime and drug trafficking to...
View Article(Even Older) Boomerang Children Weigh On Parents' Well-Being
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — Françoise, 71, couldn’t have dreamt of a more complicated relationship with her 39-year-old daughter Sandra. They used to speak every day, and not a week would pass...
View ArticleEn Français, Please
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The language situation in Canada's predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec can lead to baffling bilingual signs like this one at the Montreal airport.
View ArticleNext On The Korean Peninsula: Trump And Pyongyang Nukes
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Kim Jong Un’s historic call for peace also included an unspoken message to U.S. President Donald Trump: North Korea won’t surrender its nuclear weapons easily. The...
View ArticleMade In China? America First? The Tech Arms Race Is On
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER In the age of Trump, there are innumerable issues and arguments that go unnoticed or underreported because this president is sucking up the oxygen of the entire American media...
View ArticleRussian Poker? Why The New Cold War May Be About To Thaw
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT -Analysis- MOSCOW — The list is long: the scandal around the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, an unprecedented expulsion of Russian diplomats, sanctions...
View ArticleBuddha Inc? A Mindfulness Path For India To Reclaim Soft Power
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — Despite India’s recent progress, its international influence is not commensurate with its size, might and tradition. India is often criticized for being unable...
View ArticleIceland, A Unique Lab For Gender Equality
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS REYKJAVIK — Perhaps it’s the dust that makes Hugrun Hjaltadottir eyes water. Or, the sun that filters through the window, raising the temperature to a degree almost...
View ArticleIn Prosperous Chile, Immigration Policy Smacks Of Racism
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA SANTIAGO — Anyone visiting Santiago in early 2015 and returning today, would notice a different human landscape. The population's relative racial homogeneity has...
View ArticleFacebook, A Black Market For Five-Star Amazon Reviews
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent of its reviews are...
View ArticleRobot Brains Need Human Rules
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- MUNICH — If you want a good scare, take a look at the artificial intelligence on display at this year's South By Southwest festival in Texas. Scientists...
View ArticleTax Harmonization, The One True Way To Combat Fiscal Havens
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — Public opinion was outraged, and rightly so, by revelations from the so-called Paradise Papers investigation and the publication, before that, of the Panama...
View ArticleNot Exactly Free, A Filipina Domestic Worker's Life In Cairo
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — On a hot summer day in 2012, two smartly clad Filipina women arrived at the JW Marriott Hotel on Cairo’s ring road, toting handbags in the crooks of their arms as...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Row: Should Europe Just Stay The Course?
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -Analysis- WASHINGTON — After the revelations made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran's nuclear program, Europeans are on the defensive. The material...
View ArticleWelcome To My Turkish Cave
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The only thing more impressive than beholding the ancient troglodyte structures of Turkey's Cappadocia region, was realizing that yes, some people still actually lived in...
View ArticleMario Vargas Llosa: I Would Like To Die With A Pen In My Hand
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — "A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing," the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus is said to have written. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin elaborated...
View ArticleWill Croatia's Quest For Energy Independence Cost It Krk?
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS NJIVICE — The tourism season hasn't begun yet on the island of Krk, in the northern Adriatic, where silhouettes of tankers and container ships on their way to the port of...
View ArticleCompared To Google, Amazon And Facebook, Apple Ain't So Bad After All
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -Essay- I’ve long been a critic of Apple, but today I give up: It’s the perfect tech company for this day and age, an example to the rest of Silicon Valley. After...
View ArticleAre Electric Cars Doomed To Be Just A Niche Market?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — The car of the future will be electric. That is now a certainty. Or rather a consensus. Unless it's an illusion? Let's start at the beginning. A symbol of...
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