culture / society

France

Saving Languages From Extinction, With The Help Of AI

The world's linguistic heritage is facing a crisis just as serious as that of biodiversity. A Fre...

India

From Disha To Greta, Saving Democracy Requires We Get Radical

The contemporary crises of our world – climatic, democratic, technological, economic, epide...

United States

Britney Spears To Princess Latifa: Hashtags And The Patriarchy

The new documentary "Framing Britney Spears" explores how both tabloid and mainstream media outlets first framed the American megastar as a hypersexualized Lolita, then a bad role model and ...

Argentina

Pandemic And City Parks: A Reminder That Green Spaces Matter

Argentine landscape historian Sonia Berjman deplores a lack of long-term planning and park mainte...

France

Prolonging Lives v. Wasted Futures? The 'Covidism' Dilemma

Are the lives of the youth impacted by coronavirus restrictions worth less than the extended live...

Chile

Powering Through Appendicitis For Perfect Score On Chile's National Exam

The 18-year-old was doubled over in pain, but her parents thought it was just a case of exam-time...

Germany

How The Dream Of Moving Out To The Countryside Can Backfire

Many urban dwellers fantasize about a rural lifestyle, especially right now. But leaving city lif...

France

Parents Call Cops On Teen Son For Refusing To Clear The Table

Parenting can be a tricky thing. Who can safely say they've never, in the heat of the moment, brandished over-the-top threats to try to get unruly offspring to comply? And who ever follows ...

Canada

Montreal's #MeToo Comedy Crisis Is No Laughing Matter

Long considered the "capital of Canadian humor," the Quebec city is currently facing simultaeous ...

France

Starsky And Hutch Busted In France For Driving Under Influence

Yes, they are both French. Yes, those are their real names. No, they weren't driving a Ford Gran ...

Italy

Hiding The Dough: Woman Caught Smuggling €70,000 In Pasta

Italy, as everyone knows, is the place for pasta. And so it goes without saying that visitors to the country often head home with a package or two in their duffels or suitcases. The woman in ...

Egypt

How The Sexist Politics Of Hair Plays Out In Egypt's Schools

"I'm not against hijab in principle; I myself wear it," says one mother. "But I refuse to have my...

France

Drama At French Opera: Real-Life Sabotage Winds Up In Court

A near fatal act of sabotage at a French opera house wound up in a courtroom last week, after a feud between stage hands offered an unsuspecting audience a moment of true drama six years ago. ...

France

COVID, All The Rave: France Debates The "Right To Party"

A New Year's Eve 'free party' in Lieuron, France, became a state affair. While politicians are qu...

France

Aristotle to Anti-Vax: Internet And The Decline Of Reason

The virtues that laid the groundwork for Western civilization's many advances are being eclipsed,...

Hungary

Viktor Orban, Xi Jinping And A Simple Question For The West

The basic precepts of democracy, recently on the line in Washington, have long been discarded by ...

Egypt

How Egypt Fell In And Out Of Love With Uber

Uber launched with an excited bang in Egypt in 2014, promising work and new income for a country ...

Syria

Ten Years Of War And One Of COVID, Syria Facing Economic Abyss

The economic crisis in neighboring Lebanon, coupled with COVID-19 travel restrictions, are causin...

Germany

The Nazi Font: When Hitler Erased The Gothic Typeface

The edict was both covert and surprising: On Jan. 3 1941, Nazi official Martin Bormann announced ...

Italy

Washington, Rome, Kampala: The Sacred Counting Of Democracy

At 6 p.m. local time Wednesday in Rome, while much of the world was transfixed on Washington, D.C., Italian reporters were huddled in a vast room of the nation's Parliament to witness another ...

Ghana

How Facial Recognition Technology Is Different In Africa

There's a reason many Africans are wary of the identification technology: It doesn't work as well...