Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a ...
Apr 15, 2022 · which describes Spiegelman’s process and explores the public reception of the text. Photo by Kirk McKoy/Getty Images. In MetaMaus, Spiegelman reflected on the different cultural responses to Maus he saw while promoting the book and conducting interviews for it at various points in time.
The myth and the hero: the writing and rewriting of Vietnam’s …
Oct 1, 2024 · The only problem is that Lê never existed. Although the depot did indeed explode, the story of Lê’s martyrdom was entirely fabricated as a tool of wartime propaganda. In 2009, professor Phan Huy Lê, an established historian, Communist Party member, and former President of the History Association of Vietnam, published his evidence of the invention of the hero.
How did 2024 reshape our world? From Damascus to Kyiv to …
Dec 18, 2024 · In Damascus, as over half a century of iron-fisted dictatorship crumbled to dust, journalist Zeina Shahla described the atmosphere: “I have lived in Damascus through all the years of the war, and this week has been like nothing else.
I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies ...
Nov 12, 2024 · The healthcare landscape is changing fast thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence. These technologies have shifted decision-making power away from nurses and on to the robots. Michael Kennedy, who works as a neuro-intensive care nurse in San Diego, believes AI could destroy nurses’ intuition, skills, and training. The result being that patients are left
Oligarchs: The New Gods & the Case of Bill Gates - Coda Story
Oct 11, 2024 · A fascinating new report from Oxfam draws a compelling link between oligarchy, poverty, and the world’s inability to fight climate change. The Oxfam report argues that the “global oligarchy” of the super-rich, make international cooperation on solving issues like climate change and poverty all but impossible.
How California's wildfires are fuel for propaganda - Coda Story
Jan 16, 2025 · Chinese state media drew flattering comparisons between China’s response to catastrophe and that of the U.S. government. Look at last week’s Tibet earthquake, Chinese media crowed, where over 14,000 rescue workers were deployed on search and rescue operations.And remember the 2022 Chongqing wildfire, they added, reposting videos of locals transporting extinguishers, supplies and emergency ...
Jailed for a Like - Coda Story
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Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance …
Sep 24, 2024 · Everything is bigger in Texas—including state police contracts for surveillance tech. In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a …
What Donald Trump owes to George Soros - Coda Story
Nov 18, 2024 · Of course there will be chaos. But isn’t that the plan?It certainly seems so now that Trump’s proposed cabinet features an alleged Russian “asset” as national intelligence chief, an alleged sexual predator as attorney general, thus leading a department that recently investigated him for sex-trafficking, and as health secretary an anti …
The Age of Broligarchy - Coda Story
Nov 7, 2024 · There will be so much soul-searching in the next days and weeks as Democrats in the United States, and supporters of liberal ideas elsewhere, come to terms with their defeat and try to figure out a path forward.