Sailing the seas of global trade: From China to Europe on a cargo ship
Most of the world’s goods travel around the world on the same routes traced by ships for centuries. Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff is making this journey aboard the 1,100-foot cargo ship “Christophe Colomb.” Follow her trip in photos and dispatches as she sails from Hong Kong to Southampton, England.
In Congo, hip-hop gives youth a political voice
In the DRC, where war is waxing and free speech is waning, music is deadly serious business Topics: Culture Democratic Republic of the Congo Music The Street Dance crew rehearses at Yole!Africa, a youth cultural center in Goma, a city in the violence ravaged eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Natalie Keyssar GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On a rocky backstreet in this large eas
OPINION: What’s in the name of a dead Syrian child?
The identities of those who have perished from the civil war should haunt us for a long time Alan Shenu and Hamza al-Khatib were two young boys from Syria whose short lives and cruel deaths will forever haunt us. Three-year-old Alan from Kobani in northern Syria died from drowning in the Aegean Sea earlier this week, along with his mother Rehan and 5-year-old brother Galip, when their boat capsize
St. Louis burning: America’s atomic legacy haunts city
St. Louis burning: America’s atomic legacy haunts city County parks, homes, businesses remain open and untested after decades of exposure to potentially contaminated creek Topics: Health Environment U.S. Dawn Chapman, right and Karen Nickel hug after learning that workers who worked on the sites in the 1970s will speak to them about what happened at the sites.Alexey Furman for Al Jazeera America K
OPINION: Is decommunization good for Ukraine?
At 62 meters tall, Mother Homeland, a monument to the fallen troops of World War II, rises above the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kiev, Ukraine. During Soviet times, dissidents joked that the statue’s main value was that its sword and shield facing northeast protected the nation against possible aggression from Russia. Today the joke isn’t so funny: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko conte
OPINION: Tsipras is letting democracy decide
Wassilis Aswestopoulos / Pacific Press / LightRocket / Getty Images On June 26, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced an emergency referendum during an special televised announcement. On July 5 the Greek people will be able to vote on whether to accept the harsh fiscal demands of its troika of monitors — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund
OPINION: Dylann Roof’s struggle for true whiteness
The Charleston shooting was about race, class and a wellspring of black flourishing The black church in America remains one of the greatest catalysts of African-American well-being in our nation’s history. Since the formation of black Christian congregations on slave plantations, it has served as a place for spiritual formation, black dignity, training and education, organizing for social justice,
OPINION: Charleston shooting is domestic terrorism
Addressing the gravity and toll of hate violence in America requires structural responses A gun rampage. A hate crime. An act of domestic terrorism. The shooting deaths of nine people in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday night must be characterized as all three. While we await further information about the suspect, Dylann R
OPINION: Democratize FIFA now
Don’t blame the global south for corrupting football’s organizing body The crimes for which several powerful FIFA officials were arrested in Zurich this week will sound familiar to anybody who followed great Scottish investigative journalist Andrew Jennings’ series of high-profile muckraking scoops starting in 2006. Jennings shared what he knew with the FBI, and without his work, it’s hard to imag
OPINION: Free-market dogma has jacked up our electricity bills
Prices for electricity are higher in states that embraced market pricing and are likely to rise even more A new analysis shows that people pay 35 percent more for electricity in states that abandoned traditional regulation of monopoly utilities in the 1990s compared with states that stuck with it. That gap is almost certainly going to widen in the coming decade. Residential customers in the 15 sta
OPINION: PEN America, Charlie Hebdo and the virtue of self-restraint
PEN America, Charlie Hebdo and the virtue of self-restraint There is, of course, no justification for the murder of political cartoonists. Nothing I say should be construed as in any way mitigating the horror of the Jan. 7 attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine by two gunmen affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Yemen. In no way do I excuse the crime or accuse the victims of somehow bringing
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