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Tim Walz’s candidacy for vice president underscores the political power of teachers

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

On July 25, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the American Federation of Teachers – the first labor union she addressed after announcing her...

22 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Christopher Chambers-Ju y Melissa Arnold Lyon

Demonstrators make graffiti reading ‘Columbus Out, Long Live the People’ on a fence protecting a statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City on Oct. 12, 2020. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their independence from colonial powers. From July to September, publi...

14 Noviembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Elena Jackson Albarrán

Evacuation is more difficult for people with health and mobility issues. Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way, and it’s not just stubbornness

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people were in evacuation shelters. Hundreds of thousands more had fled...

17 Noviembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Carson MacPherson-Krutsky

5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Polls and analyses from journalists, scholars and even religious leaders often seem to assume that evangelicalism represents a singular religious and ...

17 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por La redacción

A year of devastation: with hope and trust shattered, what can bring an end to the violence in Israel-Palestine?

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

On October 7 2023, Hamas launched a savage attack on southern Israel, massacring around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 240 peop...

08 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Eyal Mayroz

When people spread lies online, they may know they’re sharing falsehoods. Timucin Taka/500 px via Getty Images

Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My col...

02 Febrero 2025
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por H. Colleen Sinclair

More Arab Americans look likely to vote for Donald Trump than Kamala Harris. Graham Hughes/Alamy

How the Middle East conflict could influence the US election – and why Arab Americans in swing states might vote for Trump

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

As we near the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel, the conflict in the Middle East has escalated significantly. Iran just launched ne...

04 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Natasha Lindstaedt y Faten Ghosn

Youth take part in an action to mark the ninth anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. AP Photo

Russia’s new ideological battlefield: The militarization of young minds

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Over the summer of 2024, some 250 Russian children traveled to North Korea for a 10-day-long kids camp. Framed as cultural diplomacy, the event was th...

21 Noviembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager

Retraites, chômage, salaires: Barnier sous la pression des syndicats

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Les syndicats CGT, FSU, Solidaires appellent à une mobilisation massive ce mardi 1er octobre, jour du discours de politique générale du premier minist...

01 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Dominique Andolfatto

De Napoléon à Emmanuel Macron: destitution, démissions et coups d’État

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Aucun président de la République n’a été destitué dans l’histoire française. En revanche, de fortes tensions entre exécutif et législatif ont souvent ...

30 Septiembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Thierry Truel

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Des électeurs font la queue devant un bureau de vote le 5 novembre 2022 à Charlotte, en Caroline du Nord. Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP

L’état critique de la démocratie américaine : les problèmes structurels du système électoral

(Tiempo de lectura: 6 - 11 minutos)

À l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de novembre, chercheurs et éditorialistes, qui alertent l’opinion depuis les années 2010, continuent de s’in...

18 Octubre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Blandine Chelini-Pont

«L’absence de poids lourds au gouvernement n’est pas forcément source de faiblesse»

(Tiempo de lectura: 5 - 10 minutos)

Michel Barnier a nommé le 21 septembre 2024 un gouvernement pléthorique de 39 ministres, qui marque la continuité d’un processus de rapprochement prog...

24 Septiembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Mathias Bernard

Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

In their campaigns, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris project different emotions and moods. The contrast between them was...

23 Septiembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Patricia Friedrich

Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah look like war crimes – international legal expert

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Tensions in the Middle East have reached a new high after thousands of pagers and radios used by members of Hezbollah exploded across various cities i...

20 Septiembre 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Giacomo Biggio

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Tim Walz’s candidacy for vice president underscores the political power of teachers

Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America

Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way, and it’s not just stubbornness

5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns

A year of devastation: with hope and trust shattered, what can bring an end to the violence in Israel-Palestine?

Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing

How the Middle East conflict could influence the US election – and why Arab Americans in swing states might vote for Trump

Russia’s new ideological battlefield: The militarization of young minds

Retraites, chômage, salaires: Barnier sous la pression des syndicats

De Napoléon à Emmanuel Macron: destitution, démissions et coups d’État

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L’état critique de la démocratie américaine : les problèmes structurels du système électoral

«L’absence de poids lourds au gouvernement n’est pas forcément source de faiblesse»

Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind

Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah look like war crimes – international legal expert

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