The Daily Brief

Jun 26, 2023 The Daily Brief

Russia’s Weird Weekend

Short-Lived Insurrection, Lingering Fears; Is Spain Ready for Its Next Heatwave?; A Victory for Trans Rights in the US; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: LGBT Rights in Muslim Asia.

Servicemen of the Wagner Group military company guard an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (AP Photo)
Jun 23, 2023 The Daily Brief

Climate Crisis: France Shoots the Messenger

Banning Eco-Group Won’t Make Climate Crisis Go Away; The Melilla Massacre, One Year On; Peru: Girls Not Mothers; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Listen: Sportswashing in Football; Quote of the Day: UN, Israel, Palestine; Correction: Japan.

Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France March 2023.
Jun 22, 2023 The Daily Brief

Stopping Darfur’s Downward Spiral

Escalating Ethnic Attacks in Darfur; Uniting to Prevent Another Disastrous World Cup; A Rainbow over the Baltic; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Update: Windrush at 75; Quote of the Day: Venezuela.

A Sudanese refugee who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, at her makeshift shelter in Koufroun, Chad, May 15, 2023.
Jun 20, 2023 The Daily Brief

Myanmar Junta Blocking Aid to Cyclone Victims

Cyclone Mocha’s Victims Denied Help in Myanmar; Automated Neglect in Jordan; A Victory for Native Children’s Rights in the US; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Sudan.

Local residents walk past damaged buildings after Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, May 16, 2023.
Jun 19, 2023 The Daily Brief

The EU’s Moral Meltdown

Mass Drownings and Persecution of Rights Defenders; Good News: Ontario Ends Immigration Detention; Post-World-Cup Labor Abuses in Qatar; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Update: Russia Continue; Quote of the Day: Democracy.

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Jun 16, 2023 The Daily Brief

US Hospitals: Charity Care or Profiting off the Poor?

Health Care Subsidy Numbers Don’t Add Up; Save Darfur. Again.; 50 Years on, the Crime Continues; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Listen: Banning Books, Banning Truth in the US; Quote of the Day: Mass Drowning on EU Border.

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Jun 15, 2023 The Daily Brief

Under Water, Under Occupation

Russia Blocks Rescues and Aid after Dam Destruction; Islamist Armed Groups Wreaking Havoc in Burkina Faso; Jailed for a Song in Uzbekistan; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Update: Another Avoidable Mass Drowning; Quote of the Day: The Right to Seek Asylum.

The flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, after the June 6 destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, June 10, 2023.
Jun 14, 2023 The Daily Brief

Damaging Internet Shutdowns in “Digital India”

India Leads the World in Internet Blackouts; Rwanda-Backed Atrocities in Congo; Kyrgyzstan Moves to Control Civic Space; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Haiti.

Women working at a job site in a village in Rajasthan under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), September 2022. NREGA is the Indian government’s income security program in rural India.
Jun 13, 2023 The Daily Brief

Fighting the US Increase in Child Labor

Child Labor on the Rise in the US; The Critical Minerals in Electric Cars; Save Maria Kalesnikava; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Jordan.

Workers house harvested burley tobacco in a barn in Shelbyville, Kentucky, US, August 20, 2020.