Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine.
On the same day this week that President Obama announced a measure that could give legal protection to 5 million undocumented immigrants, massive protests raged across Mexico against the impunity and corruption that led to the horrific massacre of 43 students. From Mexico City, Sergio Sarmiento, Elena Poniatowska and Homero Aridjis chronicle the events and ponder what’s next. Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz examines the causes behind Mexico’s corrosive impunity.
Meanwhile, as Xin Chunying writes from Beijing, China is also seeking to establish the rule of law through steadily boosting the role of the National People’s Congress. While stifling dissent, China’s President Xi is taking on both “tigers and flies” in his no-holds-barred assault from the top down on corruption.
Can China’s effort succeed without active public engagement? Can Mexico learn from China and move from angry protest to systemic change?
Also writing from Mexico, Javier Ciurlizza and Mary Speck of the International Crisis Group note how the protesters’ slogan, “I Am Fed Up With Fear,” marks a turning point for Mexico.
As bleak as the troubled world today looks from the angry streets of Mexico, Human Age author Diane Ackerman finds inspiration in the most ingenious things humans are doing this week, from soccer balls that generate electricity to buildings and freeway overpasses that “eat smog.”
Writing from New Delhi, Pawan Khera argues that it would be “disastrous” for India’s development to agree to a climate accord like that just announced between the U.S. and China. Anoop Jain underscores just how far India lags behind China, with 550 million people without even toilets.
In an exclusive, The WorldPost publishes a wide-ranging dialogue between Henry Kissinger and Fu Ying, China’s “iron lady,” about whether the U.S. and her country can co-exist as “equal brothers.”
Greece’s president Karolos Papoulias tells Arianna Huffington, who is in Athens to launch yet another international edition of HuffPost, that the “troika” overseeing Greek eurozone reforms “acts as if they’re speaking to rocks, not people.”
WorldPost Middle East Correspondent Sophia Jones reports from Istanbul that, despite formal legal protections, “turkish women are still dying over the right to divorce.” Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls for the establishment of an International Children’s Court to end the global violation of children’s rights.
In a video appeal, Bono reminds the world that epidemics like Ebola are what happen when promises of aid to Africa are broken. On the ground in Liberia, Dr. Phuoc Le talks candidly about what it means for a physician to treat Ebola patients with a “no touch” policy.
Finally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tragically flared once again in Jerusalem. Baroness Warsi writes that “violence always breeds violence” and there is no hope if that cycle is not broken. Beatriz Becerra, a Spanish member of the European Parliament, worries that recognition of a “Palestinian state” is an artifice destined for failure. And in this week’s Forgotten Fact series, The WorldPost looks at a controversial response that Israel has brought back to terror attacks.
WHO WE ARE
EDITORS: Nathan Gardels, Senior Advisor to the Berggruen Institute on Governance and the long-time editor of NPQ and the Global Viewpoint Network of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media, is the Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost. Farah Mohamed is the Managing Editor of The WorldPost. Kathleen Miles is the Senior Editor of the WorldPost. Alex Gardels is the Associate Editor of The WorldPost. Nicholas Sabloff is the Executive International Editor at the Huffington Post, overseeing The WorldPost and HuffPost’s 11 international editions. Eline Gordts is HuffPost’s Senior World Editor.
CORRESPONDENTS: Sophia Jones in Istanbul; Matt Sheehan in Beijing.
EDITORIAL BOARD: Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels, Arianna Huffington, Eric Schmidt (Google Inc.), Pierre Omidyar (First Look Media) Juan Luis Cebrian (El Pais/PRISA), Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute/TIME-CNN), John Elkann (Corriere della Sera, La Stampa), Wadah Khanfar (Al Jazeera), Dileep Padgaonkar (Times of India) and Yoichi Funabashi (Asahi Shimbun).
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Moises Naim (former editor of Foreign Policy), Nayan Chanda (Yale/Global; Far Eastern Economic Review) and Katherine Keating (One-On-One). Sergio Munoz Bata and Parag Khanna are Contributing Editors-At-Large.
The Asia Society and its ChinaFile, edited by Orville Schell, is our primary partner on Asia coverage. Eric X. Li and the Chunqiu Institute/Fudan University in Shanghai and Guancha.cn also provide first person voices from China. We also draw on the content of China Digital Times. Seung-yoon Lee is The WorldPost link in South Korea.
Jared Cohen of Google Ideas provides regular commentary from young thinkers, leaders and activists around the globe. Bruce Mau provides regular columns from MassiveChangeNetwork.com on the “whole mind” way of thinking. Patrick Soon-Shiong is Contributing Editor for Health and Medicine.
ADVISORY COUNCIL: Members of the Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council and Council for the Future of Europe serve as the Advisory Council — as well as regular contributors — to the site. These include, Jacques Attali, Shaukat Aziz, Gordon Brown, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Juan Luis Cebrian, Jack Dorsey, Mohamed El-Erian, Francis Fukuyama, Felipe Gonzalez, John Gray, Reid Hoffman, Fred Hu, Mo Ibrahim, Alexei Kudrin, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Alain Minc, Dambisa Moyo, Laura Tyson, Elon Musk, Pierre Omidyar, Raghuram Rajan, Nouriel Roubini, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eric Schmidt, Gerhard Schroeder, Peter Schwartz, Amartya Sen, Jeff Skoll, Michael Spence, Joe Stiglitz, Larry Summers, Wu Jianmin, George Yeo, Fareed Zakaria, Ernesto Zedillo, Ahmed Zewail, and Zheng Bijian.
From the Europe group, these include: Marek Belka, Tony Blair, Jacques Delors, Niall Ferguson, Anthony Giddens, Otmar Issing, Mario Monti, Robert Mundell, Peter Sutherland and Guy Verhofstadt.
MISSION STATEMENT
The WorldPost is a global media bridge that seeks to connect the world and connect the dots. Gathering together top editors and first person contributors from all corners of the planet, we aspire to be the one publication where the whole world meets.
We not only deliver breaking news from the best sources with original reportage on the ground and user-generated content; we bring the best minds and most authoritative as well as fresh and new voices together to make sense of events from a global perspective looking around, not a national perspective looking out.
