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Apple & Foxconn: Is the ‘Disinfectant’ of Sunshine Starting to Work?
It remains to be seen whether these moves will result in real improvements, but they’re at least an implicit pledge of change, and they almost invite an even brighter spotlight on the largely dark backstory behind Apple’s glistening products.
When Journalists Die
All conflicts begin to seem more real, closer and bloodier when one of your own dies.
Didn’t make it to the Global Hit, But still Heard on The World
Our Global Hit team, Marco Werman and April Peavey, get about 40 CDs each week. “Not enough time in the day,” April says. It’s a Herculean task. You can’t hear them all, and the ones you do get to hear, you don’t always have time to craft a Global Hit around it [...]
Senegal: Fire and Riot Time
The routine at these almost daily rallies goes like this: crowds gather, including local activists like Y’en a marre and the civil society activists in M23. They chat, rail against incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade, and exchange the latest news until one or more of the opposition candidates running against Wade arrives. Youssou N’dour often shows up as well.
Djily Baghdad Raps the Anthem of Y’en a Marre
Djily Baghdad, featured here in video, raps the anthem of the Y’en a marre (we’re fed up) movement. Y’en a marre is a large community of rappers who are demanding President Abdoulaye Wade to leave power.
Get Your Tear-Gas Masks Here
I used to notice the Senegalese strivers on the streets of New York City and how, whenever it rained, they’d be the first ones in the aisles of the job-lot stores, buying a gross of umbrellas, and unloading them in the proverbial New York minute [...]
Greece, Saved or Sacrificed?
The ink is not yet dry on the Greek rescue deal and the gloom has already returned. How can it be that after months of arduous, often acrimonious brinkmanship no one thinks this latest accord is good enough? [...]
The Simpsons at 500 Through the Lens of a Childhood in India
Growing up in India, I would turn to the BBC World Service for a very British view of the world. And then, watch The Simpsons for some light-hearted American humor [...]
Kosovo’s No-Credit Crunch
In Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, their problem is too much borrowing. In Kosovo, you’re lucky if you can borrow at all. Needless to say, Kosovo doesn’t have a debt crisis. But I’d reckon that your average Kosovar would happily trade places with an underwater homeowner in Nevada or a civil servant in Athens with a newly lightened paycheck [...]
Show Producer’s Blog: Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid was a great friend to our show, often going out of his way to make time for an interview with Lisa or Marco. Just last week he apologetically turned us down because he was about to hit the road on what turned out to be his last reporting trip. He said he’d be back in a week [...]
Israel Blames Iran for Attacks at Israeli Embassies
The Israeli government was quick to lay the blame on Iran for the two car bombs planted near Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia today [...]
Year of the Dragon in Boston’s Chinatown
This year is the most important of the Lunar New Year zodiac signs — the Year of the Dragon [...]
Malek Jandali Believes in the Creative Power of the People of Homs
Pianist and composer Malek Jandali says if Syria manages to free itself from dictatorship, it will once again create and innovate as it once did.
Earworms … Eeeewwww!!!
I can’t remember when or where I first came across the word ‘earworm,’ but I can never forget the first time I used the word in this newsroom [...]
New Anti-Corruption Ruling in India
India’s Supreme Court has canceled 122 telecommunications licenses awarded to companies in 2008. The ruling is the latest chapter in a long-running corruption drama in India.
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