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Un jeune soudanais se réchauffe les mains dans un camp de migrants à Ouistreham, dans le nord de la France. Photo prise pour un reportage de Mathieu Clavel. Lou Benoist/AFP

Le casse-tête de la loi immigration : et si l’on se trompait d’interlocuteurs ?

(Tiempo de lectura: 5 - 10 minutos)

Attendu depuis près d’un an, le projet de loi pour contrôler l’immigration et améliorer l’intégration, objet d’un débat houleux, a provoqué une crise politique majeure pour la présidence d'Emmanuel Macron. Suite à son adoption par la commission mixte paritaire, saisie le lundi 18 décembre, le Rassemblement National a décrété « une victoire idéologique » et le parti Les Républicains a montré que sa formation faisait désormais office de pivot au sein du gouvernement.

27 Enero 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Antoine Pécoud

A frail but free Alberto Fujimori. Renato Pajuelo/AFP via Getty Images

Release of Alberto Fujimori in Peru rekindles fears of backsliding on human rights

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The release from prison of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Dec. 6, 2023, has sparked concern over Peru’s commitment to human rights.

15 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Ñusta Carranza Ko

Jordan Bardella, président du Rassemblement National, arrive à Saint-Denis pour une rencontre transpartisane avec le président de la République le 17 novembre 2023. Julien de Risa/AFP

Le RN, « trou noir » du paysage politique français

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

L’adoption de la motion de rejet sur le projet de loi immigration par l’Assemblée nationale signe sans doute un échec personnel pour le ministre de l’Intérieur, Gérald Darmanin, qui s’y était beaucoup investi et dont certains pensaient qu’il lui servirait de point de départ pour d’éventuelles ambitions présidentielles.

13 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Luc Rouban

Harvard President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania then-President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testify before Congress on Dec. 5, 2023. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Why university presidents find it hard to punish advocating genocide − college free speech codes are both more and less protective than the First Amendment

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

If the same student left her perch on the sidewalk and returned to the Harvard campus to continue the rant, the student could be silenced by campus police and either suspended or expelled from the university under the school’s code of conduct.

13 Marzo 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Lynn Greenky

That’s a lot of potential voters behind Swift at her Denver concert on July 14, 2023. Tom Cooper/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Taylor Swift: Person of the year and political influencer

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Even before Taylor Swift was named “Person Of The Year” by Time magazine, politicians courted Swiftie voters.

08 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Matt Harris

Why Yemen’s Houthis are getting involved in the Israel-Hamas war and how it could disrupt global shipping

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, marking a clear escalation in maritime attacks in the critical Bab el Mandab strait between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

07 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Leena Adel y Ben Rich

People take part in a protest in support of Palestine in Montreal, Friday, October 13, 2023. La Presse canadienne/Graham Hughes

Le conflit israélo-palestinien met à l’épreuve le multiculturalisme canadien

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Dans l’imaginaire collectif et la représentation sociale que l’on se fait du Canada, le pays est généralement perçu comme ouvert et accueillant envers la diversité ethnoculturelle et religieuse.

18 Febrero 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Christian J. Y. Bergeron

A change in policy means more Philly students are staying in school and out of the legal system. AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Philadelphia reduces school-based arrests by 91% since 2013 – researchers explain the effects of keeping kids out of the legal system

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.

05 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Amanda NeMoyer y Naomi Goldstein

Former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Henry Kissinger: history will judge the former US secretary of state’s southern African interventions to be a failure

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Henry Kissinger, who sexed up the art of diplomacy in the eight years between 1969 and 1977, has died at the age of 100.

04 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Peter Vale

Edward Blum stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 20, 2022. Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Edward Blum’s crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 7 minutos)

Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws.

21 Diciembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Julian Maxwell Hayter

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A brief history of the US-Israel ‘special relationship’ shows how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state

(Tiempo de lectura: 4 - 8 minutos)

In his first remarks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden affirmed the United States offered “rock solid and unwavering” support to Israel, “just as we have (done) from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its founding, 75 years ago.”

30 Noviembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por La redacción

COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 5 minutos)

In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before falling again. Vallance explained that delaying and reducing the height of that peak was essential to ease the strain on Britain’s healthcare system. Boris Johnson, then prime minister, put it much more succinctly: “Squash that sombrero.”

29 Noviembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por James Cheshire y Rob Davidson

UAE state oil company CEO and COP28 president, Sultan Al Jaber. AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh largest oil producer, will host the 28th UN climate change summit (COP28) in Dubai from November 30 to December 12. Presiding over the conference will be the chief executive of the UAE state-owned oil company Adnoc, Sultan al-Jaber.

28 Noviembre 2023
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Emilie Rutledge y Aiora Zabala

Green growth or degrowth: what is the right way to tackle climate change?

(Tiempo de lectura: 3 - 6 minutos)

Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as “green growth” and “degrowth”. Can these ideas be reconciled? What do both have to say about the climate challenge?

19 Mayo 2024
Publicado en Babel
Escrito por Mark Fabian

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Le casse-tête de la loi immigration : et si l’on se trompait d’interlocuteurs ?

Release of Alberto Fujimori in Peru rekindles fears of backsliding on human rights

Le RN, « trou noir » du paysage politique français

Why university presidents find it hard to punish advocating genocide − college free speech codes are both more and less protective than the First Amendment

Taylor Swift: Person of the year and political influencer

Why Yemen’s Houthis are getting involved in the Israel-Hamas war and how it could disrupt global shipping

Le conflit israélo-palestinien met à l’épreuve le multiculturalisme canadien

Philadelphia reduces school-based arrests by 91% since 2013 – researchers explain the effects of keeping kids out of the legal system

Henry Kissinger: history will judge the former US secretary of state’s southern African interventions to be a failure

Edward Blum’s crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil rights activists

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A brief history of the US-Israel ‘special relationship’ shows how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state

COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit

Green growth or degrowth: what is the right way to tackle climate change?

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Necesitamos tu apoyo económico para hacer un periodismo fiable y con valores sociales

Necesitamos tu apoyo económico para hacer
un periodismo fiable y con valores sociales