The Trump-Loving Israeli Doctor Offering Aid to Palestinians

Dr. Yitzchak Glick is beloved in the communities where he provides medical care … as long as politics aren’t discussed.

“Shalom! Shalom!” shouts Dr. Yitzchak Glick exuberantly as always, waving to several Palestinian children beside the village mosque.

To my surprise, they wave back without hesitation. No rocks thrown, no dirty looks even. “Shalom! Shalom!” they respond.

Are we really still in the West Bank?

The fear of becoming a victim is driving female audiences, say experts.

While studying for a Ph.D. in mass communications at the University of South Carolina, Kelli Boling often found herself cutting across radio lines during her hour-and-a-half-long commute. Looking for something to occupy her time, she started listening to true crime podcasts. First Serial, made famous by NPR’s Sarah Koenig, and then Undisclosed, another deep dive on wrongful convictions. Then she found herself falling down an addictive audio rabbit hole, listening to everything from American Public Media’s In the Dark to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Accused to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown.

Boling became curious: Was she the only woman deeply interested in these real-life tales of murder and violence?

Record numbers of the most educated researchers and academics are leaving the country, hobbling Brazil’s sciences while helping those abroad.

Brazilian microbiologist Amaro Emiliano Trindade Silva loves his work at the Federal University of Bahia, where he analyzes the impact of climate change on underground water, research that could prove a game-changer for understanding a little-known facet of global warming. But for the first time in his life, he is contemplating leaving Brazil for good. And Silva is not alone.
Latin America’s largest economy and most populous nation is grappling with an intellectual exodus propelled by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s funding freezes in higher education and research. Since it took office in January, Brazil’s new government has stalled the release of 8 billion reals ($2 billion) from education, science and technology budgets as part of austerity measures, leaving research projects in limbo and thousands of researchers without research scholarships.