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Evghenia Gutul, the elected Baskan of Gagauzia, a self-governing region in southern Moldova, has released a book containing 30 letters she wrote from prison. “The Gutul Case. Anatomy of Political Persecution” details the breakdown in relations between Gagauzia and the Moldovan central authorities, a dispute that resulted in her arrest and transfer to solitary confinement. [.....

I keep going over a detail in the reports of Disney’s April layoffs because it is so subtly cruel that it nearly seems like fantasy. According to reports, several of the fired employees had their one-on-one HR sessions in conference rooms adorned with their own artwork, including concept pieces and murals that they had created [...]

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At the center of the fight against climate change is a persistent issue that receives far less attention than electric vehicles and is housed within a blast furnace. In order to produce steel using the conventional method, coal is required not only as a fuel but also as a chemical reducing agent that extracts oxygen [...]

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Once you hear a certain silence on Main Street in a little American town that has lost its youth, you can hear it everywhere. The hardware store turned vaporizer shop. The diner is still open, but half of the booths are dark. Nearly all of the grads of this high school are heading to Austin, [...]

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Young programmers spend long, muggy days coding the payment code that silently transfers money over a whole continent in a building in Yaba, the unglamorous Lagos district known to the locals as “Yabacon Valley” with a mix of pride and mockery. One API at a time, the so-called African digital boom is being built in [...]

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