Tomas L. Friedman: Out of Africa|NYT
Friedman gives probably the best description of the problem I’ve seen so far. You don’t stop this kind of migration with a paddle boat, or a warship, particularly if people…
The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder|Vox
If you thought that Trump was about as weird as you can get, think again. Inside the unorthodox conservative movement riding the Trump wave. Source: The alt-right is more than…
Relying on Turkey ‘leads to blackmail’, Tusk says
Making deals with dodgy authoritarian governments, presents dangers – it goes without saying. While EU governments bicker and lose ground to populists, we are dropping the ball on fundamental policies…
How to Fight Climate Change with Innovation | Foreign Affairs
Fighting climate change successfully will require sensible government policies to level the economic playing field between clean and dirty energy, such as putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions. But…
What Sex Means for World Peace | Foreign Policy
In the academic field of security studies, realpolitik dominates. Those who adhere to this worldview are committed to accepting empirical evidence when it is placed… Source: What Sex Means for…
Through this company Rupert Murdoch owns his piece of the future
It might have been a throwaway purchase when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought Irish user-generated newswire Storyful back in 2013. Source: Through this company Rupert Murdoch owns his piece of…
A Stanford dean on adult skills every 18-year-old should have
Source: A Stanford dean on adult skills every 18-year-old should have
Thomas L. Friedman: Out of Africa|The New York Times
A farming village too parched to sustain crops is also losing its men, who leave in search of work to support their families. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/out-of-africa.html Source: Out of Africa, Part…
Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills’ | Books | The Guardian
Like all of Alexievich’s works, Chernobyl Prayer is based on documentary interviews with eyewitnesses – in this case survivors of a cataclysm that saw 50m curies of radiation dumped into…