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Demonstration against the military coup on 14 February 2021. Photograph Source: MgHla (aka) Htin Linn Aye – CC BY-SA 4.0 Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the conflict is bewildering....

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair. When Circle, the world’s second-largest dollar stablecoin company, floated its shares at the start of June, the reaction was euphoric. By June 27, Circle’s stock had briefly touched $299 before settling near $183 – a staggering...

Tjeerd Royaards Netanyahu’s Gaza horror show marches on. The post Bloody Line in the Sand appeared first on The Nation.

C'est au nom de la restauration de la sécurité et de la souveraineté qu'une junte a chassé le pouvoir civil en juillet 2023 au Niger. Depuis lors, la situation du pays s'est dégradée sur les plans sécuritaire et socio-économiques. En guise de réponse, le régime...

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Leonardo da Vinci’s extensive studies of human anatomy were hundreds of years ahead of their time. (Image by Wikimedia Commons, Leonardo da Vinci.) At the third assembly of the World Humanist Forum on July 19, Antonio Carvallo proposed the creation of a new working...

Peter Lamelas, el embajador norteamericano que promete “vigilar provincias” y apoyar a Milei contra China  Como si fuera un virrey habló de su futura tarea en la Argentina a la que pretende llegar no sólo para respaldar al gobierno de Javier Milei, sino también que...

Photo by Stéphan Valentin Dear A.G., In nearly eight years as New York Times publisher, you’ve achieved remarkable financial success for the paper. And as your grandfather Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger Sr. said, if the Times doesn’t make money, “we can’t have any other...

Photo by Stéphan Valentin Dear A.G., In nearly eight years as New York Times publisher, you’ve achieved remarkable financial success for the paper. And as your grandfather Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger Sr. said, if the Times doesn’t make money, “we can’t have any other...

Moral Monday, image by David Biesack. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair And we will all be called as witnesses, each and every one, to stand before the eyes of God, and speak what was done. – Jerusalem, Paul Simon “Now you see what we’re up against!” said my mother when hearing that Robert F. Kennedy’s...

On 8 July, the European Parliament approved Bulgaria’s entry into the eurozone by a large majority. Through this vote, Bulgaria – a country of six and a half million inhabitants in Eastern Europe – will begin to use the euro as its currency from 1 January 2026. What...