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READING IS RESISTANCE
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East Africa’s first semiconductor plant was built to hedge against global supply shocks. Instead, it has become collateral damage in shifting US politics. The small facility in Nyeri in the Kenyan highlands benefited from Washington’s brief embrace of...
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We assume that superpowers will play their geostrategic game of controlling global mineral wealth by compromising our leaders with a loan here, a grant there and a threat here. Few consider the far subtler, yet more opaque, pathways made possible by...
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Khalil Gibran, a poet born in Lebanon in the late 1800s, wrote that we work so that we might keep pace with the earth and its soul. We’d argue that some of us work with love and purpose so deep, clear and abiding that they outpace the soul of the...
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“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love,” wrote Tennesse Williams, the celebrated 20th century playwright. “Love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share:...
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