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Another homer off the bat of Aaron Judge. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

MLB home run counts are rising – and global warming is playing a role

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Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments when everyone looks skyward, baseball players and fans alike, anxiously awaiting the outcome: run o...

08 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Christopher W. Callahan and Justin S. Mankin

Des affiches appelant à la grève lors du blocage de l'université Bordeaux-Montaigne, à Pessac, le 15 mars 2023. AFP/Philippe Lopez

Les étudiants engagés contre la réforme des retraites : une mobilisation inédite ?

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Alors que se poursuit la mobilisation contre la réforme augmentant l’âge de départ à la retraite, les étudiants et les lycéens sont beaucoup plus nomb...

06 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Robi Morder

Le chef de l'État a suggéré l'idée dans son interview télévisée du 22 mars. Ludovic Marin / AFP

Taxation des superprofits : un outil de redistribution des gagnants vers les perdants des crises ?

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Les événements géopolitiques récents ont montré qu’une crise pour certains peut représenter une opportunité pour d’autres. Avec des entreprises affich...

05 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Rodolphe Desbordes y tres más

Les régions Grand-Est et Hauts-de-France continuent d’être les plus touchées par le chômage. (Ici, une façade d’usine désaffectée à Tourcoing, dans le Nord) Jacques Caffin/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Chômage : un chiffre au plus bas mais qui masque le creusement des inégalités entre les territoires

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

Au quatrième trimestre 2022, le marché de l’emploi affiche une santé éclatante malgré le contexte macroéconomique morose. Avec 2,2 millions de personn...

04 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Nadine Levratto et Philippe Poinsot

A supporter of former President Donald Trump protests the indictment announcement near Mar-a-Lago, Fla., on March 31, 2023. Chandan Khan/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s indictment stretches US legal system in new ways – a former prosecutor explains 4 key points to understand

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

When former President Donald Trump turns himself over to authorities in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, and is arraigned, the charges on which a M...

03 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Jeffrey Bellin

Le comédien Chevy Chase parodiant le président Gerald Ford. NBC

Les « late shows » et la politique : le cas de « Saturday Night Live » et de Gerald Ford

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La tradition américaine du late show a fait ses premiers pas en France début 2023 avec Le Late d’Alain Chabat sur TF1, dans une version potache et dép...

22 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Tamara Espiñeira-Guirao y Lucille Hagège

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama leads a prayer in the Indian state of Bihar on Jan. 1, 2022. Sandeep Kumar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Dalai Lama identifies the reincarnation of Mongolia’s spiritual leader – a preview of tensions around finding his own replacement

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More than 5,600 people had gathered for a March 2023 ceremony in Dharamsala, India, when the Dalai Lama indicated toward a young child beside him.

31 Marzo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Brooke Schedneck

Gun control activists rally in Nashville, Tenn. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Nashville attack renews calls for assault weapons ban – data shows there were fewer mass shooting deaths during an earlier 10-year prohibition

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The shooting deaths of three children and three adults inside a Nashville school has put further pressure on Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-...

30 Marzo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Michael J. Klein

Emmanuel Macron en una caricatura de DonkeyHotey vía flickr.

Emmanuel Macron : la verticale du vide ?

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Entre l’Élysée et la société civile, les médiations se font rares. Le pouvoir semble s’exercer de haut en bas, et la violence, ici et là, se substitue...

10 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Michel Wieviorka

Georgians protest a foreign agent bill that mirrored a Russian law used to crack down on dissent. Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images

Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

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After several days of mass protests and clashes between protesters and police in early March, the ruling party of Georgia, a former Soviet state locat...

30 Abril 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Maxim Krupskiy

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A member of Israel’s military reserves takes part in a protest on March 16, 2023 in Bnei Brak, a city east of Tel Aviv. Photo by Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Israel’s military reservists are joining protests – potentially transforming a political crisis into a security crisis

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The judicial overhaul plan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, introduced in January, has thrown the country into its most seve...

27 Marzo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Dan Arbell

The Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture at Boston Common is called ‘The Embrace.’ Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Reaction to bronze sculpture of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston hasn’t been good – and that’s not bad for art that shatters conventions

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As an acclaimed photographer and conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas has grown accustomed to criticisms of his unconventional art and concepts of id...

31 Octubre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Kristin Ann Hass

Does public safety trump free speech? History suggests there is a case for banning anti-trans activist Posie Parker from NZ

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The impending arrival of Kelly-Jean Keen-Minshull – aka Posie Parker – has put the spotlight on the tension between free speech and protecting vulnera...

06 Noviembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Kevin Veale

Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump are vying for the Republican nomination for president. Abaca Press / Alamy Stock Photo

Trump v DeSantis: how the two Republican presidential heavy-hitters compare

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In an episode of HBO’s Real Time in March 2023, comedian Bill Maher hit the nail on the head when describing the current debate over Donald Trump v Ro...

23 Marzo 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Thomas Gift

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MLB home run counts are rising – and global warming is playing a role

Les étudiants engagés contre la réforme des retraites : une mobilisation inédite ?

Taxation des superprofits : un outil de redistribution des gagnants vers les perdants des crises ?

Chômage : un chiffre au plus bas mais qui masque le creusement des inégalités entre les territoires

Trump’s indictment stretches US legal system in new ways – a former prosecutor explains 4 key points to understand

Les « late shows » et la politique : le cas de « Saturday Night Live » et de Gerald Ford

Dalai Lama identifies the reincarnation of Mongolia’s spiritual leader – a preview of tensions around finding his own replacement

Nashville attack renews calls for assault weapons ban – data shows there were fewer mass shooting deaths during an earlier 10-year prohibition

Emmanuel Macron : la verticale du vide ?

Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

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Israel’s military reservists are joining protests – potentially transforming a political crisis into a security crisis

Reaction to bronze sculpture of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston hasn’t been good – and that’s not bad for art that shatters conventions

Does public safety trump free speech? History suggests there is a case for banning anti-trans activist Posie Parker from NZ

Trump v DeSantis: how the two Republican presidential heavy-hitters compare

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