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What’s a “watch party“? That’s what my friends from Italy ask me on WhatsApp. What do I tell them? That I’m in a mega-club in Brooklyn, and that while I dance, pretending to be twenty-five myself, on a giant screen…

by George Banez “Biologists seem to care more about eagles than the people living in the forests with them.” The executive director of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC), an anthropologist, told me that in 1989. The young me, a budding…

For over 2,000 years, ginseng has been cultivated, extracted, and has benefited countless people in East Asia and around the world. It’s often called the “root of life,” symbolizing vitality, longevity, and spiritual balance. In recent years, Korean ginseng, locally…

by Shamsul Basunia After the July 2024 uprising, people in Bangladesh expected to have shining days for their lives. But they still don’t have it, even until the writing of this report on November 6th on 2025. The National Consensus Commission…

En el oeste de Kenia, en la tranquila aldea de la comunidad de Lela, cerca del Lago Victoria, Dorothy Adenga, humanista, hija de una familia campesina, donó un terreno, una tierra ancestral que le había sido cedida a su marido, por su…

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum concluded in Gyeongju, South Korea, after two days of intense discussions focused on strengthening supply chains, promoting digital innovation, and advancing toward sustainable and inclusive growth. Under the theme “Building a Sustainable Tomorrow: Connect,…

Zohran Mamdani’s victory is not just a historic victory for a new-generation immigrant youth. Not just a stunning victory for the son of a Muslim father and a Hindu mother who rose from nothing. Behind this victory is the huge…

by Maxine Lowy. Journalist, editor and translator.   “Let’s go to La Toma!” “Youth and glory, La Victoria!” Twenty children alongside their parents and preschool educators chant and sing as they parade through the streets of their neighborhood on the…

Zohran Mamdani’s recent win represents an important milestone in New York City’s political life — but this time, the significance goes well beyond a single campaign. What emerged in this election is the visible force of a new generation of…

In a somewhat unstable socio-political context, a few days before October 10, the date on which World Mental Health Day is celebrated each year, Bogotá was the epicenter of a silent revolution that promises to transform the way the world…