Politics
Whose Century Is It?
August 15, 2017
Roiled by two years of recession, the impeachment of one president and indictment of another, and its worst corruption scandal ever, Brazil is not exactly on the path predicted at the beginning of this century, when it was hailed as one of the globe's most promising rising economic powers. What happened? Inequalities and imbalances at home may have been papered over in boom times, but they didn't go away, and now Brazil's leaders face the challenge of finding a more sustainable and equitable way forward.
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This Muslim purge in Myanmar is so awful you can see it from space
GlobalPost
November 15, 2016
Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames.
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Fake HIV/AIDS cures persist around the world
GlobalPost
October 18, 2012
A list of some of the most outrageous claims of finding a cure to AIDS
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Historians disagree on whether 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is racist
PRI's The World
August 30, 2016
The decision of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stop standing for the national anthem has provoked a lot of debate, to say the least. One part of the argument is about the anthem's little-known third stanza, and whether it is racist.
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One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is 'totally speechless' over the push to limit immigration
PRI's The World
October 11, 2016
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart won a Nobel Prize in chemistry this year. Like the five others who won in the US, he is an immigrant.
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Breitbart alumni shape the message at Trump's White House
PRI's The World
February 07, 2017
Sebastian Gorka's refugee parents escaped from Communist Hungary. Now he's a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, making the case for the immigrant and refugee ban.
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A cross-generational group of US women is planning a nationwide strike against Trump
December 05, 2016
They may be decades apart, but the women organizing the Dec. 12 strike have their eyes set on one prize: getting the electoral college to change their votes.
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PHOTOS: It's official. The Women's March has swept the globe
PRI's The World
January 21, 2017
Updated
Tens of thousands of women and men turned out for the March on Washington's sister marches in cities and countries around the globe. See the pictures.
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This Trump voter is stunned to find her Syrian relatives deported
PRI's The World
February 01, 2017
Sarmad Assali, an Orthodox Christian in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supported Donald Trump for president. She was stunned this weekend when his refugee and immigration restrictions meant her relatives were deported back to Damascus.
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To fight hate crimes, philanthropist George Soros's organization begins by tracking them
PRI's The World
December 06, 2016
Billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor will invest $10 million to help communities track hate crimes against them.
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Policing the language of the Holocaust in Poland
PRI's The World
August 18, 2016
This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."