Shutdown

Sometimes the US is baffling to the French. This is one of those times.

Seems everyone in the world is making fun of the most powerful nation on Earth these days for not being able to keep its own government running. But Chinese netizens think the US is inspiring, because the people actually hold some power.

Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants’ stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World’s Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.

It was Yosemite National Park’s 123rd anniversary Tuesday. But barring a Google doodle, there was little to celebrate as all national parks were closed following the government shutdown.

The partial US government shutdown isn’t boosting America’s image on the world stage according to Gary Younge, a columnist for British newspaper The Guardian.