Category: Opinion
A series of essays and commentaries on today’s biggest global news headlines.
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Narendra Modi’s re-election invokes the dark side of India’s democracy
In his first five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP party took India down a path where basic freedoms and the rule of law are no longer guaranteed, transforming the secular foundations of India’s democracy into a violent, authoritarian regime.
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Starving Venezuelans pay the price for Maduro’s arrogance
In Venezuela, soaring inflation, inadequate social services, impaired communications systems, and a lack of food supplies and medication have crippled the society. People are starving and in desperate need, but aid is being turned away by a president whose decisions are serving his illegitimate grip on power.
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Putin’s Century
The Mueller Report confirmed Russia’s effort to influence the US election, further evidence of Putin manipulating the world stage with his guerrilla political tactics.
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Protesters in Algeria use nonviolence to seek real political change
In a country where the government does not allow a real political dialogue, this is how the Algerian people practice their politics.
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Gambia Confronts its Dark Past
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will give Yahya Jammeh’s victims a path towards healing. It’s a step in the right direction. But the proceedings are off to a shaky start.
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How we are failing to cover the Sudan protests
Government-imposed restrictions on press freedoms and a preference for simplified narratives in many foreign media outlets contribute to inadequate reporting on Sudan.
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Welcome to the People’s Democratic Republic of America
D.C. reporters should treat their posting like they are working in a foreign bureau. It might seem like home, but the rules keep changing, and every week there’s a new crisis.
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Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.
What media theorist Marshall McLuhan would make of today’s American political stars.
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Yellow Vests Protests
Veronique de Viguerie brings a war photographer’s eye to the battle raging in France over economic disparity.
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Yemen and the Responsibility to Protect
Journalist and former UN official Patricia Leidl on how the world has failed in its responsibility to protect the people of Yemen.