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The silver that made potosí fabulously wealthy is now all but gone, but miners still toil in the bolivian city’s nearby mines in search of minerals vital to global supply chains. ın recent years, locals have promoted a kind of “danger tourism”—guided tours of the sprawling and still lethal cerro rico complex—as another employment option in a region with very few, but critics say it draws too many voyeurs and thrill-seekers. |
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The individualist credo is exacerbating already steep inequality and driving elites to protect their privilege by any means—even criminal ones. |
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The dispute over kashmir has raged for seven decades and ignited three wars. now the conflict has entered a new phase: violent street protests in ındia-controlled kashmir, followed by brutal crackdowns by ındian security forces that have maimed a new generation of militants, protesters, and bystanders. |
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The travel bans have been in the headlines, but less reported are the other moves that the trump administration has made to keep refugees out of the us. for families fleeing war in sudan and other conflict zones, these policies have taken a toll. |
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Eva mozes kor, an auschwitz survivor, publicly forgave one of her former captors before he died last year—at the end, a convicted war criminal. on the seventy-fourth anniversary of the camp’s liberation, the long journey to bring one of its ss officers to justice raises questions about the power of forgiveness and the importance of historical memory. |
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Not all millennials are struggling to reach the traditional milestones of adulthood, but some are—and america’s growing inequality is the reason. |
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Along the us–mexican border in arizona, the drug trade persists, but the jobs have long gone. would building a border wall change anything? |
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Maybe we shouldn’t put too much faith in the hope that the rich will want to rein in their bad behavior. |
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Us military bases occupy a fifth of the j***anese island of okinawa. the latest round of base construction, says activist hiros*** ınaba, threatens not only the environment but also the idea that the okinawan people have a real say over what a foreign military does on their land. |
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Helen benedict’s novel wolf season describes how old wounds from the ıraq war linger on in the lives of three women. |
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Personal stories. global issues. |