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Some 70 years after the end of the Second World War, the Polish parliament has voted in favour of a bill making it illegal to accuse Poland of complicity in Nazi crimes. The dominant Polish narrative of World War II is about victimhood, but as Geneviève Zubrzycki writes, that’s not the full story.
And new data shows 8.8 million Brazilians have been internally displaced by disaster, development and crime since 2000. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country, but as Robert Muggah writes, Brazil still has no solid refugee plan.
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‘Anti-Semitism is treatable’ – a banner at a Warsaw demonstration.
Reuters/ Agencja Gazeta
Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
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Arts + Culture
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Soo Kang, Colorado State University
The mountainous Gangwon province, home of the 2018 Olympics, boasts some unique fare. A Korean professor describes her favorite dishes, from Korean surf and turf to tofu as soft as ice cream.
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Business + Economy
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Anne Goldgar, King's College London
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
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Health + Medicine
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Dr. Jeffrey M. Farber, University of Guelph
As the death count in South Africa’s listeriosis outbreak rises, Canadian researchers are isolating bacteria from the microbiome of exotic foods to try to develop a solution.
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Politics + Society
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Robert Muggah, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Since 2000, 8.8 million Brazilians have been displaced by disaster, development and crime, new data shows. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country. Still, Brazil has no real refugee plan.
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Marc Zupan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Highly engineered composite materials let skis ride smoothly, carve neatly and turn quickly – for top athletes and regular consumers alike.
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Francis Markham, Australian National University; Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University
Care needs to be taken in interpreting progress on closing the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and ascribing it to actual policy change.
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Mohamed M Diatta, Sciences Po – USPC
Africa needs strong institutions. But they can only be built if there's a change in leadership.
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