Also: a look inside the slippery world of stand-up comedy in China and Ukraine’s clandestine online school network.
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Here are the 10 most-read articles of the past year: Escape From Foxconn: Inside The COVID Lockdown Chaos Blocking China’s iPhone Production THE INITIUM Around China, Zero-COVID policy has shut down entire towns and workplaces. But in the high-tech Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, famous for cranking out iPhones, employees were forced to work even if […]
Worldcrunch asked its staff to choose the articles published this year that made a particular impression on them. They largely cover the major events that marked the news in 2022, from the war in Ukraine to the protests in Iran and the overturning of Roe v Wade in the U.S. Here are the 10 stories […]
We asked the team at Worldcrunch to share the articles that stood at this past year, from articles we’ve translated from the best international sources to pieces we’ve written ourselves. Dozens (and dozens) were sent in, and we’ve narrowed it down to 21: When Will COVID End? The Question That Won’t Go Away EL ESPECTADOR […]
LES ECHOS France’s Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic. Opinions matter, of course, but shouldn’t supersede well-founded knowledge. SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG RoboJudge: When Laws Are Transformed Into Computer Code Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we […]
LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of “reality-show novels’ and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert the novel as a contemporary art. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG The Real Invisible Threat To Democracy: Poverty Even in economically powerful Germany, poverty threatens the social fabric. And […]
Venice For Sale? Historic Buildings Flipped Into Airbnbs LA STAMPA A Woman’s Perspective On Divorce In The Arab World More and more people in Muslim-majority countries are opting out of their marriages. And often it’s the woman who decides to end things. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG Obama’s Shadow, White House photographer Pete Souza Looks Back LE TEMPS […]
A Call To Philosophers: Join The Fray, Help Fix Our World Our era of authoritarian rulers and “alternative facts’ makes the guiding light of philosophy more vital than ever. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG Xi Jinping’s Dream Megacity To Burnish His Legacy Ground has been broken on the signature domestic project of the Chinese leader’s next term. It […]
1. My Yacht, My Shell Company: Cheating, Divorce And Panama Papers GERMANY — Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 8 2. Living In Space, Russia Probes 55 Years After Yuri Gagarin RUSSIA — Kommersant, Aug. 12 3. A Yogurt Story, When Immigrant Dreams Feed American Capitalism UNITED STATES — La Stampa, May 3 4. Sexism In Chivalry? A […]
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 […]
Hey Donald Trump, Hugo Chavez Would Be So Proud CHILE / America Economia, Aug. 25 Jihadism As Nihilism, An X-Ray Of Homegrown Terror In France FRANCE / Le Monde, Dec. 3 The Siberian Fasting Cleanse For Body And Mind RUSSIA / Le Temps, Aug. 17 El Chapo Escape, When Income Inequality Breeds Corruption MEXICO / […]
PARIS — Our fair-minded but ever subjective staff of journalists, translators and editors have chosen what we believe to be the year’s most engaging and provocative stories. Why The Chinese Are So Good, But Rarely Great CHINA / Caixin, Jan .5 That Slippery Euphemism We Call “Cultural Differences” FRANCE / Worldcrunch, Jan. 15 Artificial Intelligence […]
Ukraine’s Pro-Russian Separatists Are Bad News For Russia The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, located on the Moldovan border with Ukraine, has relied on Russia for the past two decades. A perfect example of potential new burdens for Moscow. — KOMMERSANT In India, The World’s First Vegetarian City After monks went on a hunger strike to push […]
Here are some of the best stories we ran this year, from our fair-minded but ever subjective staff of journalists, translators and editors. Crunchers united! From Ukraine To Syria, Mercenaries With A Cause Hurriyet / TURKEY Le Monde / GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, LIBERIA Süddeutsche Zeitung / GERMANY Economic Observer / CHINA Kommersant / RUSSIA, UKRAINE […]
You’ve been with the professors, and they all like your looks… A group of five Swedish scientists of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have revealed that they have been inserting Bob Dylan lyrics and song titles into research articles for the past 17 years as part of a bet. The scientist who winds up quoting […]