Sudan: Security forces ‘hiding corpses’ of protesters dumped in the Nile and ‘raping doctors’ amid brutal crackdown (Warning: two autoplay videos.)

Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization

African Swine Fever Is Killing China’s Pigs and Stoking Inflation

Is Student Debt Cancellation Regressive? NO.

Somewhere between ¼ and 1/5 of Hong Kong’s entire population turned out to protest. That’s just mind-boggling.

Academic Freedom: universities must take a stance or risk becoming complicit with Chinese government interference

Taiwan with Hong Kong

Hegel’s search for the universal patterns of history revealed a paradox: freedom is coming into being, but is never guaranteed

What it’s like to be a white woman named LaKiesha (I sometimes wonder if I didn’t move to Taiwan just so I wouldn’t have to explain my name anymore? 🤣🤣🤣)

Sudan Ousted a Brutal Dictator. His Successor Was His Enforcer

The Neoliberal Road to Serfdom

“You may say that it’s shoe-shining, but I have to say I find President Xi more and more charismatic and admirable in the things that he is doing and saying” 🤔🤔🤔

Will climate change kill everyone — or just lots and lots of people?

‘Loco,’ ‘Hombres’: Why Trump Uses Mock Spanish

U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid (We live in terrifying times…)

“Twenty-one Indian cities are expected to run out of groundwater by 2020, and 40% of India’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030, the report said.”

Johan Renck, before he directed Chernobyl for HBO…

“One peer-reviewed study suggested that at least 4.1 percent of those sentenced to death in the United States are innocent“

Year in Review: In the Time of Public Anthropologies

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to pause controversial extradition bill (Only suspended. Not withdrawn. Keep up the pressure!)

Ukrainian oligarchs accused of laundering $470b, buying up much of Cleveland (US citizens living abroad have to report every penny in our banks, but in the US anyone can set up an anonymous shell corp.)

Social Security Isn’t Going Broke. Older Americans Are.

Belgium’s Beijing Embassy Calls Chinese Cops on Uighur Family (My Belgian friend taught me a new word: “Godverdomme!”)

‘Hong Kong’ searches surge behind China’s Great Firewall

Taiwan’s confused reaction to the Tiananmen Incident in 1989