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A soldier’s body lies next to a destroyed Russian truck on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

Social media provides flood of images of death and carnage from Ukraine war – and contributes to weaker journalism standards

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Photos of civilians killed or injured in the Russia-Ukraine war are widespread, particularly online, both on social media and in professional news med...

06 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Beena Sarwar

Some women in Nigeria knowingly or unknowingly contribute to patriarchy. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Patriarchy persists in Nigeria – and men aren’t the only ones who keep it that way

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Chrisland Schools on Victoria Island in Lagos was recently in the news for the wrong reasons. Nigerian newspapers – and some further afield – carried ...

05 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Egodi Uchendu

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her delegation leave Taipei on August 3, 2022. Taiwanese Foreign Ministry/Handout/Andalou Agency via Getty Images

Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit sparked international tension, but isn’t likely to shake up her popularity with Chinese American voters at home in San Francisco

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei, Taiwan, prompted warnings and threats from the Chinese government, but it is unlikely to upset her ...

04 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jonathan H. X. Lee

Daniela Vesco/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images

It’s Beyoncé’s world. We’re just living in it

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As Rolling Stone wrote last month, “for at least the past decade, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been the world’s greatest living entertainer.”

03 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Phoebe Macrossan

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife, conservative activist Virginia Thomas, in October 2021. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House...

02 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Eve Ringsmuth

Does Jacinda Ardern’s popularity really qualify as a cult of personality, as some critics claim?

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has fluctuated over the past five years, with the prime minister’s approval peaking at 76% in May 2020. Those early rises ...

01 Agosto 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Anne-Mette Holmgård Sundahl

Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Author provided

Why John Byrne is one of Scotland’s greatest artists

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

A Big Adventure, John Byrne’s retrospective at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery, offers a fascinating insight into the breadth of skills of one of Sc...

31 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Blane Savage

Jennifer Lawrence, dans le rôle de Katniss, héroïne de “Hunger games”, et personnage apprécié par les adolescentes. Allociné / Copyright Metropolitan FilmExport

Fictions pour la jeunesse : les nouvelles héroïnes cassent-elles vraiment les stéréotypes de genre ?

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

C'est en se heurtant au réel et en multipliant les expériences que chaque enfant dessine son chemin vers l'âge adulte. Mais sa personnalité et ses con...

30 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Viviane Albenga

Pope Francis receives a traditional headdress after apologizing near the site of the former Ermineskin Residential School, in Maskwacis, Alta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Pope’s long-awaited apology for Indian Residential Schools in Canada is a ‘first step’

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Pope Francis fulfilled the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Call to Action No. 58 by offering an apology, in Canada, to the survivors of In...

29 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jeremy M. Bergen

Le risque d’une écologie devenant elle-même une ressource pour la communication et le marketing. Shutterstock

L’écologie est-elle soluble dans les démocraties capitalistes ?

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Suite aux élections législatives de 2022, la toute récente reparlementarisation de la vie politique française pourrait faire évoluer la place des ques...

28 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Albin Wagener

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Activists including Myanmar citizens protest in Tokyo on July 26, 2022, against Myanmar’s recent execution of four prisoners Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images

Top democracy activists were executed in Myanmar – 4 key things to know

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

The current conflict in Myanmar raised new international concern when the country’s military announced on July 25, 2022, that it had executed four pro...

27 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Tharaphi Than

Could structural racism in U.S. schools lead more young African Americans to drink? Jose A. Bernat Bacete / Getty Images

Alcohol use more likely among Black youths at racially segregated schools

(Tiempo de lectura: 2 - 4 minutos)

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

03 Septiembre 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Guangyi Wang and Rita Hamad

Why it’s more important than ever for workplaces to have staff well-being plans

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

A recent survey of New Zealand workplaces revealed more than a third have no workplace well-being plan in place. Yet it is necessary, now more than ev...

25 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Dougal Sutherland

Protests in Nairobi as Maasai activists deliver a petition to the Tanzania High Commission, in Kenya, 17 June 2022. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu

Moving the Maasai: Tanzania is repeating Kenya’s colonial past

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Images of distressed members of the Maasai community being forcibly moved from their homes, beaten and harassed by police and the army in northern Tan...

24 Julio 2022
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Lotte Hughes

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Social media provides flood of images of death and carnage from Ukraine war – and contributes to weaker journalism standards

Patriarchy persists in Nigeria – and men aren’t the only ones who keep it that way

Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit sparked international tension, but isn’t likely to shake up her popularity with Chinese American voters at home in San Francisco

It’s Beyoncé’s world. We’re just living in it

Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics

Does Jacinda Ardern’s popularity really qualify as a cult of personality, as some critics claim?

Why John Byrne is one of Scotland’s greatest artists

Fictions pour la jeunesse : les nouvelles héroïnes cassent-elles vraiment les stéréotypes de genre ?

Pope’s long-awaited apology for Indian Residential Schools in Canada is a ‘first step’

L’écologie est-elle soluble dans les démocraties capitalistes ?

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Top democracy activists were executed in Myanmar – 4 key things to know

Alcohol use more likely among Black youths at racially segregated schools

Why it’s more important than ever for workplaces to have staff well-being plans

Moving the Maasai: Tanzania is repeating Kenya’s colonial past

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Necesitamos tu apoyo económico para hacer
un periodismo fiable y con valores sociales