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Watch: Oneshot, May '68 — Waiting In Line
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT This month marks the 50th anniversary of May '68 uprising in France, a political and cultural touchstone in the West and one of the most memorable confrontations of the...
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The New Face Of Populism: Giuseppe Conte, An Italian Robespierre?
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -OpEd- ROME — With a few softly-spoken words after receiving the mandate to form a government by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, the lawyer-turned-politician Giuseppe...
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Don Quixote's Nightmare
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Two peaceful windmills in the Spanish countryside? For Miguel de Cervantes' colorful character Don Quixote (a favorite of mine), these would be ferocious giants — and he...
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More Economic Alarm Bells In Dollar-Hungry Argentina
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — As then President Juan Domingo Perón made clear in a 1951 speech, concerns in Argentina over the price of the U.S. dollar are nothing new. "I ask you...
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Why The World Needs To Move On Without Trump
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — America is run by a carpet seller. Donald Trump negotiates on the international stage the way he did with building contractors and local communities back...
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Venezuela Is A Pariah State And Must Be Treated As Such
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Editorial- SANTIAGO — The Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, has been defeated on his own turf. International observers, numerous foreign press sources and the...
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What Voters Read In A Candidate's Face
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Can voters be swayed by a candidate's face? If they're young and undecided, then yes, researchers in Colombia have found. Psychologist Henry Castillo Parram,...
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Border Row Is Bad News For Moroccan Workers In Algeria
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MAGHNIA — Already tense relations between Algeria and Morocco have taken a sharp turn for the worse of late, and pose a serious risk to the livelihoods of an estimated...
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Visiting The Murky World Of Underground Berlin
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — Schloßstraße, a busy shopping street in the west of Berlin, has all the big city essentials: shops, restaurants, cinemas and a theater. And yet, for a...
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Watch: OneShot, May '68 — The Police
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT This month marks the 50th anniversary of the May '68 uprising in France, a political and cultural touchstone in the West and one of the most memorable confrontations of the...
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India And Pakistan, A Virtual Return To History Of Shared Troubles
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE LAHORE — “We are all a part of the same rhetoric, the same story, which has been told to us very differently,” says Duaa Rehman, a freshman from the Lahore University of...
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Latin American Elections, A Mirror Of Global Unrest In 2018
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Another big crisis has erupted in Latin America. Nicaragua. This erstwhile member of the declining forces of so-called 21st Century Socialism is in fact the...
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If Italy Crashes, Germany And The Whole EU Will Pay The Price
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -Analysis- BERLIN — While Brussels is palavering over a plastic tax that will never materialize, dark clouds are gathering over Europe. Right now, in plain view, the...
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Musical Family Portrait
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH This family was looking at musicians playing outside the beautiful Jain temple of Ranakpur, in western India. Only after pressing the shutter did I realize the kid had...
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Why The Asian Economy Can't Escape Trump's Bad Choices
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER TOKYO — Since Japan’s fiscal year starts in April each year, it is in May that the country's major corporations announce their financial statements for 2017. Most...
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The Female Factor In Senegal's Fishing Crisis
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY SAINT-LOUIS — Fatou Binetou Sarr sits, arms crossed and lips pursed, looking on as fishermen bring in the day’s catch. She’s with a group of women, all wearing long,...
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The Mercantilist: Why Trump Economics Are Stuck In 17th Century
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump often seems as though he’s stuck in the '80s. But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era. Consider...
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Spain To Senegal To Brazil, "Other" 1968 Movements To Remember
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Political conflict and social movements around the world in 1968 made it a year for the history books. The 50th anniversary of several signature episodes are...
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Watch: Oneshot — Happy Birthday Norma Jeane
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Happy Birthday Ms. Monroe OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot: Please continue...
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Mohamed Salah, The Soccer Star Inspiring Egypt's Youth
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — In the year of Mohamed Salah’s rise to fame as one of the world’s best soccer players, his every move and success has been well documented across the globe, no more...
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