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The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the US plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies grew faster than the G7 economies. Beyond the obvious symbolism, this difference entails real political, cultural, and economic consequences, writes Richard Wolff, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a founder of the Democracy at Work project.

Irish author Sally Rooney has refused to allow her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, to be translated into Hebrew in Israel, a state she intends to boycott for contravening international law in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Alessio Colonnelli, a translator and European affairs commentator, gives his view on Rooney's stand.

Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, science in Brazil is under attack with multiple budget cuts that threaten research and the instrumentalization of science for electoral purposes, say more than 200 researchers and academics from around the world in this open letter of support for their Brazilian colleagues. By attacking science, they write, Bolsonaro not only hurts the scientific community, but all of Brazilian society.

Il y a un mois disparaissait Bernard Stiegler. En hommage à sa mémoire et en accord avec sa famille, Mediapart publie la réflexion sur la crise sanitaire qu’il nous avait fait parvenir peu de temps avant son décès, texte qu’il avait conçu en trois épisodes. Voici le troisième et dernier qu’il avait intitulé « Risque, ouverture et compromis ».

Il y a un mois disparaissait Bernard Stiegler. En hommage à sa mémoire et en accord avec sa famille, Mediapart publie la réflexion sur la crise sanitaire qu’il nous avait fait parvenir peu de temps avant son décès, texte qu’il avait conçu en trois épisodes. Voici le deuxième qu’il avait intitulé « Incertitude et indétermination ».

Il y a un mois disparaissait Bernard Stiegler. En hommage à sa mémoire et en accord avec sa famille, Mediapart publie la réflexion sur la crise sanitaire qu’il nous avait fait parvenir peu de temps avant son décès, texte qu’il avait conçu en trois épisodes. Voici le premier qu’il avait intitulé « Crédit et certitude ».

Trump administration officials have been cited 13 times for violating the Hatch Act, a New Deal-era law prohibiting government officials from engaging in campaigning, co-reports online US investigative news magazine ProPublica and WNYC radio.

No matter how much countries strive to impress one another by trying to convince everybody else that they are special (and, by implication, others aren’t), no matter how much this term is banded around, ‘exceptionalism’ is a word all Europeans should stop using – it’s poisonous, argues Alessio Colonnelli, translator and commentator on European political and social affairs.

Silvia Romano, who works for the Milanese charity Africa Milele, was seized by gunmen in south-eastern Kenya in 2018. Alessio Colonnelli,  translator and commentator on European political and social affairs, examines why her sudden release has sparked such a large debate in Italy.