Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Making Sense of a Chaotic World

What’s behind the South African riots?
‘I am broken’: South African communities are gutted by a wave of looting, arson and loss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/17/south-africa-unrest/

Cuba’s protests
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/14/the-guardian-view-on-cubas-protests-people-deserve-better-from-their-leaders-and-the-us
Cuba’s Pain Is Not Washington’s Gain
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-14/cuba-s-pain-is-not-washington-s-gain
 
U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/13/haiti-moise-invasion-washington-revolution-occupation-black-republic/
 
Fear and Misery in an Afghan City Where Taliban Stalk the Streets
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/world/asia/afghanistan-kunduz-taliban.html
 
Defeating Viktor Orbán will be hard, but undoing Hungary’s democratic decline will be harder.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/07/viktor-orban-autocracy-hungary-election/619351/