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.
In Nicaragua, there are no more newspapers - Coda Story
Sep 14, 2022 · Nicaragua ranked 160 out of 180 in this year’s freedom of press index. According to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Nicaragua and Venezuela are the two countries with the highest rate of censorship in the Americas.
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
My mother tongues - Coda Story
Jul 17, 2024 · My father, Swapan Dasgupta, was born near Calcutta in April 1947, just four months before India became an independent nation. By 1947, India had been transformed under British rule from a global center of economic production into an exemplar of deprivation, of hunger, of sickness, and of dire, desperate poverty.
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.
Silicon Valley’s sci-fi dreams of colonizing Mars - Coda Story
Jul 3, 2024 · It was a late spring evening in Devon, England, in May 2021. Even before we saw the satellites, the party had become surreal: it was one of the first gatherings in the region since the pandemic had begun. We were camping in tipis in a field overlooking the Jurassic Coast, the ocean thundering below. Inside
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
Apr 21, 2021 · In the West, the online phenomenon of cottagecore has rocketed in popularity during the pandemic, with influencers showcasing picture-perfect lives of vegetable growing, knitting and baking in gingerbread-house surroundings.
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 tool Donald Trump might use to crush dissent - Coda Story
Nov 26, 2024 · Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said the bill was “part of a broader assault on our civil liberties.” Introduced in the wake of protests on American campuses over the war in Gaza, the bill, Tlaib warned, is not “just about Palestinian human rights advocacy organizations, this is about the NAACP, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.”