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Mad Max in paradise: New Caledonia in turmoil
The Economist· 3 days agoFor more than a week, the poor, indigenous Kanak minority had been protesting against French rule. Now, at the end of a long promenade lined with coconut...
‘Palestine is a European issue’: European Parliament candidate Rima Hassan
Al Jazeera· 3 days agoFrench-Palestinian activist and jurist Rima Hassan, a leftist candidate in the upcoming European...
Here's what happened this week in the UK election, from the return of Farage to tussles over tax
Newsday· 8 hours agoFarage, whose years of invective against the European Union helped push Britain out of the bloc,...
Ursula von der Leyen could be on the way out as EU heavyweights turn against her
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoUrsula von der Leyen’s chances of a second term as president of the European Commission are in doubt...
A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker's list — for protesting the war in Gaza
The Forward· 6 days agoHolocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, 86, laid down in the road outside a Detroit-area Holocaust museum...
Holocaust Museums Debate What to Say About the Israel-Hamas War
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBut after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the guides noticed that some students would ask a...
Mexico just elected a Jewish president. What other countries can claim Jewish heads of state?
The Forward· 2 days agoLéon Blum was prime minister of France before and after World War II. But dozens of lesser known...
The Possibilities for Child Liberation
Current Affairs· 2 days agoIn 1972, a 13-year-old named Peter Cane launched a youth liberation group at his junior high school in Huntington, New York—and was quickly reminded of...
The Primacy of Political Order | by Andrés Velasco - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 2 days agoHe is the unlikely protagonist of a wannabe blockbuster: a balding, pudgy, jug-eared shopkeeper. The...
Guantánamo Bay Has Shattered the Illusion of a 'Fair' Justice System
Current Affairs· 1 day agoAs a person born in 1999, I first conceived of myself as an “American” right at the frothing heights...
