Who do I know in #Ethiopia? Do I have a friend there, or a friend with a friend there, who might like to write for @cosmo_globalist about the #Tigray War?
Likewise, do I know anyone who can write for us about the #DRC, #Rwanda, and #M23? Do you? Can you put me in touch?
These are massively important stories, with huge human significance--millions affected, displaced--yet I can barely find any news about them beyond the occasional report from an NGO.
Thank you to everyone who answered this: I'm so glad to make so many new Ethiopian acquaintances.
To everyone who answered this tweet: Thank you. I clearly have a *lot* to learn about this topic. I’m going to spend the next several days reading everything you've sent me. After that, I’ll reply personally to everyone who wrote. Thank you again.
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Most Americans, when polled, say there should be "common sense" restrictions on gun ownership.
They say the same thing about abortion.
What if we made a national pact to stop killing the kids.
The left agrees to legislation that limits abortions. The right agrees to legislation that limits gun ownership.
Could that work?
Politicians on both the right and left are hostage to the extremes of their base. They know they can't agree to *any* compromise on these issues.
But if there were an explicit quid-for-quo, might it allow politicians to stand down without losing face?
Each side would compromise what they see as a fundamental and inalienable right, but they'd do it *in exchange* for something they believe to be a transcendent good.
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I fell asleep about halfway through the debate. (I'm not really an evening person.) I just watched the second half on re-run, and I pronounce the debate "unlikely to change things in any way." Macron won't have picked up a single vote from Le Pen, but nor will he have lost any.
She wasn't quite as bad a train wreck as she was in 2017, but she was a pretty bad train wreck.
And I join the rest of France in thinking I'd be just as happy not to see them shrieking at each other on TV ever again.
He came off as Macron: arrogant, impatient, aloof, but *competent.* She tried very hard at first to soft, calm, and approachable, but as soon as he reminded her that she really has no idea what she's talking about, the thing turned into 2017 redux, with her shrieking again.
We don't have a sadistic impulse to terrify our readers, but the truth is the world *is* facing a convergence of extremely serious crises.
Recently, for obvious reasons, Global Eyes has been weighted toward European news.
but in principle, we weigh the regions of the world more-or-less evenly, and always include at least the most important items from every region. (Our categories: ASIA, EUROPE, AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAS.) In doing that,
There should be a word for this phenomenon: Reading something you wrote long before and realizing, at once, that you'd forgotten about it completely--someone else might have written it--and that it's a fine piece of writing. Or that you were *exceedingly* right.
There's a curious combination of emotions when it happens. Pleasure, of course. But also puzzlement.
When the fragment or essay is very old, I worry that I've lost my youthful intellectual powers. And when it's very recent, I'm sure of it.
(This happens a lot, too. I can write something on Monday and read it with all the pleasure--or dismay--I'd feel in reading a complete stranger's work by Friday. I guarantee that by next week I'll have forgotten writing this, for example.)