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Oct 30, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Peter Taylor
Recently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless other countries offer in abundance.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Peter Taylor
Recently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless other countries offer in abundance.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nacla.org | Peter Taylor
Recently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless other countries offer in abundance.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Peter Taylor |Nathan J. Robinson |Alex Skopic
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 May/June Details Worker, prisoner, president: what the Left can learn from Lula's rise from humble childhood to becoming one of the world's most popular politicians. On June 22, 2002, Brazilian metalworker, union leader, and presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote an open “Letter to the Brazilian People.” In a few sparse pages, Lula, as he is commonly known, tried to toe a fine line.
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May 18, 2024 | 
todayville.com | Peter Taylor
By Peter Shawn TaylorIn a breathless 1999 article on the opening of Canada’s top-security National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, the Canadian Medical Association Journal described the facility as “the place where science fiction movies would be shot.” The writer was fascinated by the various containment devices and security measures designed to keep “the bad boys from the world of virology: Ebola, Marburg, Lassa” from escaping.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
roadsbridges.com | Peter Taylor
By Peter Taylor, Contributing AuthorTransportation is the backbone of our current lifestyle. The necessity for effective transportation is clear when natural disasters occur, and transportation infrastructure fails. An integral part of this system is the 4-million-mile U.S. public roadway network. Pavements that facilitate this system are therefore critical to the well-being of the nation.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Peter Taylor |Matt McManus
In Atlanta, the criminal trial of rapper Young Thug (born Jeffery Williams) is underway.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Peter Taylor |Stephen Prager
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Professor Philip Ewell on how we decide what music is worthy of scholarly attention, and how to make music theory more welcoming for everyone.
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Arjun S. Byju |Allison Dean |Peter Taylor
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Financial reporter Zeke Faux, author of a new book on Sam Bankman-Fried and the bizarre world of crypto scams, joins to tell us what he witnessed in crypto-world.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Peter Taylor
It’s 1968, and the world is in flux. All kinds of people, particularly students and other youth, are daring to dream of a different kind of world, one free of violence and poverty and oppression and defined instead by love, harmony, and creativity. Protests have rocked the streets everywhere from Chicago to Mexico City to Prague. Not content to placate bourgeois cultural attitudes, untold numbers of artists, musicians, and writers are catalyzing and harnessing this energy.
