On July 25, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the American Federation of Teachers – the first labor union she addressed after announcing her candidacy for president.
This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their independence from colonial powers. From July to September, public plazas in countries from Mexico to Honduras and Chile fill with crowds dressed and painted in national colors, parades feature participants costumed as independence heroes, fireworks fill the skies, and schoolchildren reenact historical battles.
As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people were in evacuation shelters. Hundreds of thousands more had fled coastal regions ahead of the storm, crowding highways headed north and south as their counties issued evacuation orders.
Polls and analyses from journalists, scholars and even religious leaders often seem to assume that evangelicalism represents a singular religious and social identity. Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump, who received 81% of the white evangelical vote in the 2016 election, is predicted to garner a majority share of this vote again in 2024.
On October 7 2023, Hamas launched a savage attack on southern Israel, massacring around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 240 people. The following day, I wrote in an analysis for The Conversation:
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 colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.
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 nearly 200 missiles on Israel, and Israel has continued its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza.
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 the result of a new youth exchange launched in 2022 that sees Russian youth compete for the free trip abroad. To win a place, children have to write an essay on one of three subjects: the role of Russia in a multipolar world; children’s interest in the culture of North Korea; or the story they would like to tell North Korean children about Russia.
Les syndicats CGT, FSU, Solidaires appellent à une mobilisation massive ce mardi 1er octobre, jour du discours de politique générale du premier ministre, exigeant notamment l’abrogation des réformes des assurances retraite et chômage. Une journée test, alors que la nouvelle ministre du Travail, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, semble prête à certains compromis.
Aucun président de la République n’a été destitué dans l’histoire française. En revanche, de fortes tensions entre exécutif et législatif ont souvent conduit à la démission des chefs d’État, parfois à un basculement vers un régime autocratique.
À l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de novembre, chercheurs et éditorialistes, qui alertent l’opinion depuis les années 2010, continuent de s’inquiéter du délabrement apparent d’une démocratie états-unienne dont la dérive, à la fois institutionnelle et partisane, a commencé bien avant la première mandature de Donald Trump.
Michel Barnier a nommé le 21 septembre 2024 un gouvernement pléthorique de 39 ministres, qui marque la continuité d’un processus de rapprochement progressif entre la macronie et LR. L’historien Mathias Bernard nous raconte notamment les rôles joués par Gabriel Attal et Gérard Larcher. Entretien.
In their campaigns, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris project different emotions and moods. The contrast between them was particularly sharp during their debate on Sept. 10, 2024.
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 in Lebanon and Syria over September 17 and 18. The attacks – which have widely been attributed to Israel, which has not commented – have resulted in at least 30 people killed and more than 3,000 wounded.
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