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John Keeble I was reading the story of Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski during the morning after the Trump "coup attempt" had been put down and I realised: “Yes, the Western world's future is not going to be easy, but there is the light of hope again.” At that moment, as...
By Kira Ganga Kieffer Infection and death rates caused by Covid-19 are raging, but the rollout of the vaccines brings new hope that the pandemic will end and we will soon be back to normal. Yet, according to a recent Pew Research study, 40% of Americans are wary of...
By Andreas Kluth Dear Janet Yellen: Congratulations! You’re probably the next Treasury secretary of the U.S. That’ll throw you into daunting policy cauldrons — from financing America’s massive deficits to managing China and taming the tax code. With so much in your...
By Angela Rhodes I’ve barely stepped off the plane when the stories about the Valle de la Longevidad — Valley of Longevity — start. My cabdriver asks what I’m doing in this small town in southern Ecuador, and I tell him I’m in search of the legendary old people of...
By Amanda Mull Two weeks ago, I staged a reluctant intervention via Instagram direct message. The subject was a longtime friend, Josh, who had been sharing photos of himself and his fiancé occasionally dining indoors at restaurants since New York City, where we both...
By William Cooper U.S. politics have become criminalized. A steady drum beat of words and deeds -- from “lock her up” chants, to prosecutions of President Trump’s associates, to Trump pushing for Joe Biden’s indictment -- has eroded the bright line between politics...
By Manuel Rapalo As many voters across major United States cities poured into the streets on Saturday to celebrate a win for President-elect Joe Biden, the streets of the Mexican capital retained their usual hum of city noise. But rest assured, experts say, while the...
By Joe Ferullo The tumultuous presidential campaign and its razor-thin result place much of the mainstream news media at a crossroads: They can continue to aid and abet polarization in the search for profits, or they can dial back and help shift the tone of the...
By Gustavo Flores-Macías With at least half of United States voters worried about the fairness of the election and the president not conceding if he loses the election, America’s once-exceptional democracy increasingly resembles the political landscape in other parts...
By Gus Wilcox Writing about the human toll of the coronavirus pandemic, a columnist for a Madrid newspaper recently asked: “Where is the concern about the poor and disadvantaged? Where are the defenders of human rights during the pandemic?” His comments followed the...
Dear presidents of the nine Amazonian countries and to all world leaders that share responsibility for the plundering of our rainforest, My name is Nemonte Nenquimo. I am a Waorani woman, a mother, and a leader of my people. The Amazon rainforest is my home. I am...
By Nicolas Bloom One of the biggest changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has been the inundation of working from home — and it doesn’t come without challenges. As an economics professor at Stanford University, I’ve talked to dozens of CEOs, senior managers...
By Stephen Roach The riddle once posed in the 1960s by former French finance minister (eventually president) Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is about to be solved. Giscard bemoaned a U.S. that took advantage of its privileged position as the world’s dominant reserve currency...
By Vijay Prashad and Pilar Troya A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz — who was the minister of...
By Nick Paton Walsh As 2020 slides into and probably infects 2021, try to take heart in one discomfiting fact: Things are most likely never going "back to normal." It has become a well-worn phrase our politicians, officials, experts, even family, like to lean on — an...
By Jan Dynes Ah, to swim in inky black water rippling gently, surrounding you like the comfort of loving arms, knowing sunrise is still hours away. I don't care that I should be sleeping, I am floating, floating in my own special infinite world under a sky of...
By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy Three decades after the Soviet Union fell, embers of the kind of totalitarian thinking that spawned the Communist Revolution are inflaming Western debate — and inciting Americans. Anyone born into Soviet oppression, and who resisted it,...
By Malcolm Kendrick In February, U.S. Covid-19 guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus would be "akin to a severe flu" and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people -- or one in a thousand. Then, fatality rate predictions somehow became mixed up to make it look...
By Vijay Prashad On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet his partner — Stella Moris— and see their two sons —...
By Malcolm Kendrick The release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence. Whilst we are in the middle of the...
