PARIS — Our crack staff of serious but seriously subjective journalists, translators and editors have chosen what we believe to be the year’s most engaging and provocative Worldcrunch stories.
America And Us, Trump’s Victory Is Very Bad News For The World
FRANCE — Les Echos, Nov. 21
Panama Papers: Link Between Magnitsky Probe And Putin’s Cellist Pal
GERMANY — Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 4
Letter From A Turkish Prison, When A Journalist Writes About Erdogan
TURKEY — Le Monde, Jan. 14
The German Detective Hunting Down The Last Nazis In Brazil
BRAZIL — Folha de S. Paulo, April 8
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Flaws And All, The World Will Miss Barack Obama
GERMANY — Die Welt, Nov. 4
Botticelli to Body Shaming: How Our Ideal Of Beauty Went Awry
ARGENTINA — Clarin, March 28
At Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site, “Best Not To Take Souvenirs’
KAZAKHSTAN — Kommersant, Sept. 23
How To Buy Antiquities Looted By ISIS From An Italian Mobster
ITALY — La Stampa, Oct. 19
Brexit, The Tough Lessons Europe Must Learn
FRANCE — Le Monde, June 24
Trump Victory: We’ll Never Talk About Globalization The Same Way Again
UNITED STATES — Le Figaro, Nov. 13
A Woman’s Sacred Right To Wear Shorts — Or A Headscarf
TURKEY — Cumhuriyet, Sept. 30
Little Britain, Petite Europe — Lost In This Big Bad World
FRANCE — Les Echos, June 28
Poland’s Abortion Battle, Why Free Women Are Done With Weak Men
POLAND — Gazeta Wyborcza, Oct. 27
Muslim And Hipster, Why “Mipster” Fashion Is Trending
SWITZERLAND — Le Temps, June 4
Time To Choose Between Oil Wealth And Saving The Planet
ARGENTINA — Clarin, July 21
A Father’s Perilous Hunt For His Sons, Lost To Syria And ISIS
GERMANY — Die Welt, April 4