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Madagascar: Why I’m Not Giving Up On Politicians (Yet)
On October 25, 2013, my home country of Madagascar will finally be electing a new president. In recent years the citizens of Madagascar have witnessed their economy plunge into the abyss, its natural resources pillaged. Accor...
Guinea-Bissau: The Failed State You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
If popular online quiz website, Sporcle, is anything to go by, there is a chance you have never heard of Guinea-Bissau. Yet the West African state, situated between Senegal and Guinea, has been declared the continent’s first ...
A Free or Responsible Press?
“A great victory for the forces of oppression”, that’s how Trevor Kavanagh the associate editor of the Sun Newspaper described the Royal Charter drafted by UK politicians in the wake of the Leveson enquiry. “...
WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise
The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...
WATCH: The Crowd In The Machine
What shall we make of the flood of images and voices coursing through the Internet, and how shall we process it? In our minds, the details of so much material overlap and overwhelm. On the Internet, we say, our attention is get...
Korean Video Reminds The Top 1% Of How The 99% Live
This poignant Korean video reminds us once again of the existence of poverty next to wealth. Beautifully choreographed to highlight the parallels and differences, it follows a single day in two children’s lives, from the hous...
