‘I’m Aware of Everything That I Need to Do to Remove This Evil’
Luis Miranda, the father of Lin-Manuel, on the best way to amass political power in the lead-up to the presidential election When Lin-Manuel Miranda started writing a musical about an…
UN World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, as hunger mounts
The agency was recognized “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force to prevent…
The World Celebrated Kurdish Women’s Fight Against ISIS. Now It’s Silent as They’re Raped and Tortured
A recent UN report revealed an increase in sexual violence against women and girls since the Turkish military operation began in the Kurdish enclave a year ago. Some Kurds say…
Kyrgyzstan leader holds talks to try to end political crisis
MOSCOW -- The president of Kyrgyzstan held his first talks Thursday with the newly appointed speaker of parliament to try to end a political crisis that unfolded in the Central…
Coronavirus vaccine trials focus on recruiting minorities
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — Massachusetts General Hospital reports there are about 135 different coronavirus vaccines being tested around the world. Those vaccine trials are recruiting minorities because they are being disproportionately impacted…
‘#blackAF’ is painfully devoid of new ideas
Kenya Barris is obsessed with racial essentialism, but black people have moved on Each episode of #blackAF, Netflix’s new comedy from Kenya Barris, gets introduced with rapper Jay Rock’s “Win.” “You…
Activists and scientists among MacArthur “genius grant” winners awarded $625,000 each
An activist speaking out about inadequate waste and water sanitation in rural America, an author of young adult and children's literature reflecting the world's diversity, and a neuroscientist who used…
The battle against racist language is too important to trivialis
The right and wrong targets in a linguistic struggle Back in 2002 The Economist mused about the rise of Brazil’s left-wing president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “The meaning of Lula”, ran…
The growing importance of Latin America’s mayors
Chile’s presidential election is still 14 months away. But it is striking that the early front-runners in the opinion polls are the mayors of three districts of Santiago, the capital: Joaquín…
A Greek neo-Nazi group is smashed by the courts
The leaders of Golden Dawn, once Greece’s third-largest party, can expect long prison sentences IT TOOK SEVEN years, but justice was finally delivered. On October 7th Nikos Michaloliakos, the founder…