The Surprising Role of Circus Performers in the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
It's no secret that the fight to win the right to vote for American women was a massive effort. But one of the many groups involved in that effort may still hold a little surprise: female circus performers. As explained in this preview clip from the new PBS American Experience documentary The Circus, premiering Monday and Tuesday in two parts, one major element turning the tide toward suffrage...
3m Oct 09, 2018
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Owner of Limo That Crashed and Killed 20 May Be in Pakistan, Officials Say
The owner of the limousine company involved in the deadly crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York Saturday has been located, and investigators believe he is outside of the U.S. "We have located the owner of the company,” said Maj. Robert Patnaude, a commander with the New York State Police, at a news conference Monday. Shahed Hussain, the owner of Prestige Limousine, the company that ...
3m Oct 09, 2018
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Mike Pompeo Urges Saudi Probe into the Disappearance of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called on Saudi Arabia to investigate the strange disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose case has sparked international outcry over the extent of the kingdom's crackdown on dissent. "We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation of Khashoggi's disappearance and to be transparent about the results of that inves...
2m Oct 09, 2018
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American Researchers Win Nobel Prize for Economics
Two researchers at American universities have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics. Yale University's William Nordhaus was named for integrating climate change into long term macroeconomic analysis and New York University's Paul Romer was awarded for factoring technological innovation into macroeconomics. They will share the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize.
2m Oct 08, 2018
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Taylor Swift Breaks Her Political Silence to Back Tennessee Democrats
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Music superstar Taylor Swift announced Sunday she's voting for Tennessee's Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen, breaking her long-standing refusal to discuss anything politics. "In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now," ...
2m Oct 08, 2018
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The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who ‘Discovered America’
Many Americans will celebrate Monday as Columbus Day, a federal holiday that marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's Spanish-led expedition arriving in the Americas, or as Indigenous Peoples Day, to acknowledge those who were displaced by European settlement in North America.
13m Oct 08, 2018
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She Was a Teenage Victim of Domestic Violence and Rape. She Sought Help. This Week, Iran Executed Her
“Child bride.” “Criminal.” “Juvenile offender.” These are some of the many labels assigned to Zeinab Sekaanvand during her far too short life. Sekaanvand, who was executed on Tuesday in Urumieh prison in Iran's West Azerbaijan province, was rarely seen for who she really was: a vulnerable young woman trapped in a cycle of violence and sexual abuse since childhood. Sekaanvand, who was 24 when s...
6m Oct 08, 2018
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A Star Is Born Again and Again. Here's Why Bradley Cooper Finally Got It Right
Moviegoers often dismiss Hollywood’s penchant for remaking old pictures as a failure of imagination. But given how drastically women’s roles in society, and within their marriages, have changed in the past century, we should consider ourselves lucky that, every 20 or 30 or 40 years, a filmmaker comes around to reconsider the essence of A Star Is Born.
9m Oct 08, 2018
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European Soccer Is Set Up to Protect Superstar Players. So What’s Next for Cristiano Ronaldo?
Nine years ago, Kathryn Mayorga signed a non-disclosure agreement presented to her by lawyers for the international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. Last week, in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel and in court filings in Las Vegas challenging that NDA, Mayorga broke her silence and spoke out publicly. She says Ronaldo raped her in 2009 in a Las Vegas hotel room. The allegations ...
7m Oct 08, 2018
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Brazil’s Far-Right Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Surprises With Overwhelming Election Lead
(SAO PAULO) — A far-right former army captain who expresses nostalgia for Brazil's military dictatorship took a strong lead in its presidential election Sunday, rallying voters to his promises to rid Latin America's largest nation of rampant corruption, crime and moral rot. With 92.5% of returns in, congressman Jair Bolsonaro was leading polls with 47% of the votes. If he manages more than 50%...
7m Oct 08, 2018
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Everything You Need to Know About Carnage, the Villain in the Venom Post-Credits Scene
Warning: Spoilers for Venom ahead Venom may be an anti-hero, the sort of scary monster who only eats bad guys. But there are plenty of true villains in the Venom cinematic universe. Venom fought riot in his onscreen debut. And a teaser mid-way through the credits for the movie hinted that Venom would have to fight another Spider-Man universe baddie in a sequel.
4m Oct 08, 2018
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Yes, You Should Get a Flu Shot in 2018. Here’s Everything to Know
The 2017-2018 flu season was a bad one. The dominant viral strain, H3N2, was a particularly severe form of influenza, leading to widespread and serious illness across the country. The flu and its complications killed around 80,000 people last year, the CDC estimates, including 180 children. That's the highest flu death toll in four decades.
6m Oct 08, 2018
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Drinking More Than Three Times a Week May Harm Your Health, Study Says
Decades-old advice about alcohol has recently come under fire, with two recent studies suggesting that even a moderate drinking habit may raise the risk of early death. The latest study, published Wednesday in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, finds that drinking lightly four or more times per week may raise the risk of early death, even though that amount of drinking i...
5m Oct 08, 2018
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Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren’t on Track to Do Any of Them
Climate scientists have understood for decades that unchecked, man-made global warming will wreak havoc on human civilization. The challenge has only grown more urgent as the scientific understanding expands and the world begins to feel the impacts. Now, a landmark U.N. report offers both a glimmer of hope and a giant warning.
6m Oct 08, 2018
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What Americans Should Learn from the Trump Tax Story—and One Way to Help Stop Further Trickery
The tax schemes that Donald Trump and his father Fred used in the 1990s were, by any measure, extraordinarily aggressive. The New York Times concluded that some of them amount to “outright fraud,” and the Times does not toss around those allegations lightly.
8m Oct 08, 2018
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Here’s How Kavanaugh’s Accusers Are Responding to His Supreme Court Confirmation
The Senate confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, bringing to an end an intensely angry and partisan process that involved multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the judge, public testimony by him and one of his accusers and an additional FBI investigation over the last week.
9m Oct 08, 2018
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Toddler Shreds Up Parents’ $1,000 Savings Because the Rules Don’t Apply to Him
Leo Belnap may not share his parents’ love for University of Utah football. The money that they had carefully saved up for season tickets wound up in the paper shredder—and 2-year-old Leo is the prime suspect. Jackee and Ben Belnap had managed to save $1,060, carefully tucked into an envelope that they were going to send to Ben’s parents to repay them for the cost of season tickets to root on ...
2m Oct 08, 2018
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Red Tide Is Spreading to Florida’s East Coast. Here’s What to Know About It
Tourists and residents alike have been chased away from Florida's famous beaches by an ominous-sounding ecological occurrence: red tide. Florida sees red tide — an algae outbreak that can kill marine life and sicken humans — nearly every year, but the current flare-up seems to be spreading toward the state's Atlantic Coast, a rare occurrence that's been documented only nine times in the last 7...
4m Oct 07, 2018
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Column: Why Americans Aren’t Paying Attention to the Longest War in Their Nation’s History
Weeks ago, in Afghanistan, the Taliban marked the Eid al-Adha holiday with a surprise attack. It sought to demonstrate that 17 years of effort by the U.S. forces were for naught--and to inspire the American public to bring its troops home, as the Tet offensive playing out on U.S. TVs did during the Vietnam War. There was just one problem. Almost no one noticed. Yes, the Taliban seized much of...
5m Oct 07, 2018
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Review: The Hate U Give Is a Galvanizing Drama About Young People—For Everybody
Twice while watching The Hate U Give, the marvelous and provocative film that director George Tillman Jr., has made from Angie Thomas’s 2017 young-adult novel, my throat closed tight with fear. The movie shows two distinct encounters between white cops and black men—with women involved as bystanders—and both times, I braced myself for the worst. I’m a white woman who has no reason to fear a cop...
5m Oct 07, 2018
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Timothee Chalamet on a Call Me By Your Name Sequel: “Armie and I Are 1000% In”
Timothée Chalamet is, well, busy. When I sit with him to talk about his new film Beautiful Boy, for which he’s already earning Oscar buzz, he’s just returned from Hungary, where he was in production on Netflix's The King opposite Robert Pattinson and Joel Edgerton. Next he’ll star in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming remake of Little Women with Meryl Streep, Emma Stone and Saoirse Ronan. (He calls the sc...
2m Oct 07, 2018
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Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad Taught Me the True Meaning of Courage
The audience sat in silence. Nadia Murad had just wrapped up a speaking event at the Carr Centre at Harvard University. The room had been full, as it usually was when Nadia spoke to an audience. "I can take more questions," she said. But none came. The crowd had listened intently and seemed empathetic, yet was seemingly too shy to ask much of the slight, 23-year-old woman they saw before them. ...
6m Oct 07, 2018
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Column: Has Anything Changed For American Women Since 2016?
There she was: a professional blond woman, speaking carefully, trying to say only what she knew to be true. There he was: an angry and red-faced man, shouting accusations about partisan conspiracies. Her allies asked why a man accused of sexual assault should sit in one of the most powerful seats in the nation. His found reasons to ask if this woman could really be trusted. It was like watchin...
4m Oct 06, 2018
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One Week On, Indonesia Quake Survivors Begin to Worry About the Future
When Amirudin stopped running, he thought he had stopped moving. The shop across the street, a mango tree, his aunt’s house — everything looked like it was rushing past him as he stood on a block of asphalt clinging to his infant daughter. About five seconds later, when everything stopped, he realized he had ridden a strip of road like a surfboard as a river of mud engulfed half of his village.
5m Oct 06, 2018
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Pop’s Secret Weapon Emily Warren Is Stepping Into the Spotlight
Emily Warren was always front and center. At least, that's how it was during middle school, when the young singer-songwriter convinced her brother's friends to be her backing band. But after writing nearly a thousand songs over the past dozen years, the pop artist has mostly been behind the scenes as a collaborator. Now, though, she's finally getting her moment to shine — solo — with the Oct. ...
5m Oct 06, 2018
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The Stakes Couldn't Be Higher in Brazil's Presidential Election. Here's What to Know
Brazil's presidential election is taking place on Sunday in an atmosphere of crisis. The world's largest corruption scandal has brought down dozens of politicians and severely damaged public trust in the two parties that have dominated Brazilian politics for decades: the leftist Workers' Party (PT) and the center-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).
12m Oct 06, 2018
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We Followed Our Dreams and Retired to Mexico. This Is What No One Tells You About Starting a New Life Abroad
In the summer of 2012, Brad Johnson and his wife joined the thousands of Americans who each year decide to spend their retirement years living overseas. They rented out their house in Phoenix, Ariz., got a six-month tourist visa that they anticipated renewing indefinitely, packed up their two cars, and set off southward, to the first of a series of rental homes in and around Puerto Vallarta, M...
7m Oct 06, 2018
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The Book Thief Author’s New Novel Grapples With Masculinity and Brotherhood
Growing up in Australia, Markus Zusak would ask his mother and father--post--World War II immigrants hailing from Germany and Austria, respectively--to tell him the same stories about their lives over and over. Zusak's own stories have been in print since his first novel, The Underdog, was published in 1999. But it was his 2005 global YA hit, The Book Thief, inspired by threads of those family ...
3m Oct 06, 2018
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Sexual Assault Survivors Who Met With Susan Collins Feel Betrayed She'll Vote for Kavanaugh
Last Thursday night, Amanda O'Brien sat on a bus for 10 hours to get from Maine to Washington D.C. to meet with Sen. Susan Collins and share her opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The bus was full of sexual assault survivors, who shared their stories with their seat mates as they crawled toward the Capitol. O'Brien, who wore black like the rest of the survivors, tried to prepa...
6m Oct 06, 2018
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‘Where Is Jamal?’ Here’s What to Know About Missing Washington Post Columnist Jamal Khashoggi
Prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi mysteriously vanished earlier this week and has not been heard from since Tuesday, according to the Post. Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming wedding, his fiancée told the Post. Saudi Arabia denied detaining him.
4m Oct 05, 2018
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More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here’s Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn’t Better Known
These days, and especially since the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., last August, it has become clear to many Americans that the specter of Nazism in their country is not resigned to 1930s history. But until very recently, even that part of the story was less well known than it is today. In fact, when Bradley W. Hart first started researching the history of Nazi sympathy in the United St...
6m Oct 05, 2018
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This 8-Year-Old Girl Pulled a Pre-Viking-Era Sword From a Lake in Sweden
While swimming on her summer vacation, an eight-year-old girl wrested what she thought was a stick from a lake in Sweden. Instead, it turned out she had discovered a pre-Viking-era sword that archaeologists believe is over 1,000 years old. "It's not every day that one steps on a sword in the lake!" Mikael Nordström from the Jönköpings Läns Museum told Swedish outlet The Local.
2m Oct 05, 2018
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Does China Have Anything to Fear from Foreign Universities? Not Exactly
Alyanna Felix wept when she realized she was going to New York University. They weren’t tears of joy. The Philippines-born New Yorker had unwittingly also ticked the boxes for NYU’s Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses on her college application form. In the end, it was the Shanghai campus that accepted her.
12m Oct 05, 2018
12m
This National Park in Alaska Is Holding a 'Fat Bear Week' Contest
Fall has many charms: colorful changing leaves. Pumpkin spice lattes. Cozy sweaters. And Fat Bear Week, a competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska to determine just which of its many brown bears has been most successful at plumping up and gorging on salmon over the summer in preparation for five months of winter hibernation — and, of course, will win the important title...
2m Oct 05, 2018
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Climate Change Could Destroy This Peruvian Farmer’s Home. Now He’s Suing a European Energy Company for Damages
Climbing a snowcapped mountain in the predawn light, Saúl Luciano Lliuya says he could sense something changing. All his life, pristine glaciers have nestled between the peaks surrounding his hometown in the Cordillera Blanca region of the Peruvian Andes, providing water, work and beauty. “Now you can see it,” he says. “They’re disappearing.
9m Oct 05, 2018
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‘People Are No Longer Afraid.’ Hundreds of Women Protest As Kavanaugh’s Fate Hangs in Balance
As Senators huddled around the closely guarded FBI report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged assault of Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday, the protesters seeking to sink his nomination turned up the volume. They had been demonstrating for weeks, occupying the atrium of Washington, D.C.'s Hart Senate Office Building, flooding phone lines, and confronting wary Senators in airports.
5m Oct 05, 2018
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Why Steve Carell Doesn’t Want to Give You the Office Reboot of Your Dreams
There may still be a chance for a reboot of The Office, but fans shouldn't hold out hope for the return of Steve Carell as Michael Scott. In an interview with TIME about his new movie Beautiful Boy, Carell explained why he has no plans of ever reviving his role as the irreverent boss of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. "I've never thought of it as a good idea," he told TIME about the prospec...
2m Oct 05, 2018
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Nike ‘Deeply Concerned’ by ‘Disturbing’ Cristiano Ronaldo Allegations
(LONDON) — Nike has told The Associated Press that it's "deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations" facing soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. The emailed statement Thursday from the media department for the U.S. sportswear firm follows the filing of a lawsuit in Las Vegas by a woman who alleges that she was raped by Ronaldo in 2009. Ronaldo has denied the claims.
1m Oct 05, 2018
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Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad Win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Physician Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the awarding committee announced Friday morning. Mukwege and Murad won the award for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, said committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen, speaking at a ceremony at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
3m Oct 05, 2018
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This Chart Shows How Much the Average American Earns at Every Age. See How You Stack Up
Ever wonder if you make more money than the average American your age? The average full-time worker's salary was $44,720 for 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that lumps all American workers together. Young workers make far less than others -- just $28,000 for those between the ages of 20 and 24. But as their skills improve, they can usually count on steep raises, with sa...
3m Oct 05, 2018
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Honesty Isn’t Always the Best Policy in Relationships. Here’s When Experts Say It Might Be Better to Lie
You were probably taught to never lie: Your parents likely preached the power of the truth. Your partner told you honesty matters most. But researchers say there is a lot we get wrong about deception, truth-telling and trust—and that, if mastered, lying the right way can actually help build connections, trust and businesses.
6m Oct 05, 2018
6m
Robert Redford Isn’t Retiring Just Yet
Robert Redford didn't break the Watergate scandal. But he played one of the guys who did, in All the President's Men. He has also never run for public office. But he played a guy who did, in The Candidate. And he has never robbed a bank, though in his new movie, The Old Man & the Gun, he delighted in playing a real-life character who did so dozens of times and who, when he did get caught, manag...
9m Oct 05, 2018
9m
How to Watch the 2018 MLB Playoffs Online for Free
Now that the Major League Baseball tiebreaker and Wild Card games are completed, the 2018 MLB playoff series can get fully underway. In the National League, two best-of-five series determine which team will play for the division championship: Colorado Rockies vs. Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers. In the American League, it's the Cleveland Indians vs. Houston Astros ...
5m Oct 05, 2018
5m
How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America
History often seems inexorable in hindsight, shaped by powerful figures operating beyond our control. But when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walked in to face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth, it was clear that an unassuming psychology professor and mother of two was about to change the course of current events in real time.
10m Oct 04, 2018
10m
Why Suze Orman Hates, Hates, Hates the Retire Early Movement
Suze Orman just threw cold water on early retirement dreams. In a recent podcast, Orman said you need at least $5 million -- and "really" more like $10 million, saved up in order to make an early exit from the workforce. It should come as no surprise that experts think the amount you need to retire is eye-popping: To retire at the traditional age of 65, experts typically recommend having saved...
4m Oct 04, 2018
4m
White House Says Trump Was ‘Stating the Facts’ When He Mocked Christine Blasey Ford
Amid criticism from key Republican senators, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Donald Trump for mocking Christine Blasey Ford during a rally Tuesday. Speaking at a press briefing at the White House, Sanders argued that Trump was not making fun of the California psychology professor, who alleged that as a teenager Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh held her do...
3m Oct 04, 2018
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Microsoft’s New Surface Devices Look Great Except for One Frustrating Flaw
Microsoft on Tuesday announced three new models in its Surface line of PCs: the convertible Surface Pro 6, the traditional Surface Laptop 2, and the all-in-one Surface Studio 2. The company also showed off its new noise-cancelling Surface Headphones.
6m Oct 04, 2018
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Trump’s Attack Against Christine Blasey Ford Mischaracterizes How Memory Works, Experts Say
President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, for not remembering certain details about the alleged incident. "How did you get home? 'I don't remember,'" Trump said, imitating Ford. "How did you get there? 'I don't remember.
5m Oct 04, 2018
5m
Trump Administration Tears Up Treaty in Latest Confrontation With Iran
Hours after the United Nations' top court said the United States was in breach of a decades-old bilateral agreement with Iran, the Trump Administration withdrew from the treaty altogether. The reflexive decision to tear-up the Treaty of Amity, a 1955 pact that promotes ties between the U.S. and Iran, was the latest in a series of White House moves to confront Tehran.
6m Oct 04, 2018
6m
Landlocked Bolivia Wants a Path to the Pacific. Here’s Why That Won’t Be Happening Any Time Soon
On Oct. 1, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled against forcing Chile to negotiate giving up a slice of its territory to provide neighbouring Bolivia with a route to the sea. Gathered around giant screens in town squares in the capital La Paz, Bolivians watched with dismay. To them, the country’s landlocked status is a historical injustice and an affront to national pride.
4m Oct 04, 2018
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