Every four years, when the World Cup comes around, Americans have to figure out how to respond to the fact that soccer is the
Category: International
Photoshopping beauty: An international experiment
“In the U.S., Photoshop has become a symbol of our society’s unobtainable [sic.] standards for beauty. My project, Before & After, examines how these
Coca-Cola ad delivers ‘happiness’ via drones, but the world’s workers are still thirsty
The latest ad from Coca-Cola, made in collaboration with the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM), has an upbeat, random-acts-of-kindness message. But before you help the
Spanish island is about to be fully powered by solar and wind
Big ideas sometimes start small, and that’s exactly what’s happening on El Hierro, the smallest and southernmost of the Canary Islands. El Hierro, with
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Poverty & powerlessness, up close and personal
I’ve just read–two years after everyone else–Katherine Boo’s powerful book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. It won the 2012 National Book Award, and a blurb
“It only takes a girl” focuses on child marriage and the cycle of poverty
It all starts with the girls. That’s the message of a video, called “It Only Takes a Girl,” produced by Zoe Keating on the
A Sliver of Light: Hiker hostages tell their story in an amazing new book
I’d almost forgotten about the three friends who, while hiking in Kurdistan in 2009, were lured across the Iraq/Iran border and then held prisoner
Mauricio Mayorga and his Clean Garbage Project
Mauricio Mayorga, a Colombian artist, loves sand, the beach, the ocean and the sea (all beaches, all oceans and all seas). Many of his
“The two Brazils:” How World Cup preparations highlight economic disparities
With soccer’s World Cup just a few months away—this time in Brazil—the story behind the story is beginning to emerge. The sports story will,
Putin’s Crimea problem
Buzzfeed may not be the best source of information, but it seems to be one of the few places with extensive coverage over the