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16/10/2018

Kheiro is excited to welcome you to our new project page at PubLab Journal, powered by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)! Here you can learn all about our new mission statement and upcoming fundraising campaign. In honor of our new, solutions-driven mission statement, this week we will be highlighting stories that show our commitment to not just investigating and understanding global problems, but asking what we can do to solve them. We invite you to be part of the solution! https://goo.gl/gzqSsM

16/10/2018

29/09/2018

Exit polls found that in 2016, the Supreme Court was the "most important" factor among 27% of Trump voters compared to just 19% of Clinton voters. The difference in priorities speaks to a broader failure of the Democratic Party leadership when it comes to the federal courts, Nico Brancolini argues. Will the be enough to finally change that?

Democrats must finally campaign against corporate interest judges who dominate the Supreme Court

26/09/2018

We're back! This summer Kheiro has been quietly working on a relaunch with the USC/ Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) Publishing Workshop. Over the next few weeks we'll be introducing some exciting updates, starting with a whole new look for our newsletter and a featured project page with the inaugural edition of the PubLab journal on the future of publishing. Stay tuned!

16/07/2018

And that's a wrap for our Season 1 recaps of the ! Senior culture writer Bethy Squires will be talking to us soon about her TWW-inspired zine, Two Fake Presidents — stay tuned for more!

Welcome back to Kheiro Magazine’s West Wing recaps, where things get dicey

03/07/2018

Summer reads, Kheiro style! Murder, mystery and history: what really happened to the martyrs of Otranto in Southern Italy?

Driven by a passion for uncovering historical truths, Daniele Palma scrutinized more than 300 diplomatic letters from the Ottoman invasion…

18/06/2018

Capraia's residents have banded together and set a lofty goal: to achieve a perfect balance between human activity and the natural environment — and to show other coastal communities that it can be done.

The island of Capraia has undertaken a series of sustainability initiatives to create a model that could be exported to other small…

21/05/2018

Only about 10-15% of worldwide cases involving murdered journalists are ever solved, even in liberal democracies. What will it take to stop the killing of journalists with impunity?

The unsolved murders of Daphne Galizia and Ján Kuciak have highlighted flaws in Europe's legal framework to protect journalists

11/05/2018

Italy shows how a culture of silence, cronyism and nepotism are incompatible with women’s rights, as these forces guard the country’s sexist institutions against attempts to evolve in the era.

Italy shows how a culture of silence, cronyism and nepotism are incompatible with women’s rights

01/05/2018

It's our birthday! Celebrate with a look back at the article/manifesto that started it all: https://goo.gl/ZBDzn6

Political stagnation and crisis have created an opportunity for anti-liberals with deep pockets to push a strategic, data-driven agenda

01/05/2018

In case you missed it! Check out Kheiro's interview with an Italian Holocaust survivor in honor of National Liberation Day last week.

As a toddler, Umberto di Gioacchino was hidden first in a monastery and then a farmhouse

19/04/2018

Check out Kheiro's latest contribution to !

In a decision hailed as the first of its kind by the Italian press, an Italian judge awarded more than 100,000 Euro in damages to a woman who claimed her boss sexually harassed her for years.

22/03/2018

As we near the end of Season 1, it's polling day on

Welcome back to Kheiro Magazine’s West Wing recaps, where landlines still matter, apparently

12/03/2018

Filed to: "Watch what they do, not what they say." Italy's right-wing nationalist party claims to only oppose *illegal* immigration, but its rhetoric, policy proposals and voting history suggest otherwise.

Italy’s nationalist party focuses on illegal immigration to downplay the fact that its policies also punish people who enter the country…

07/03/2018

19 episodes into Season 1, The West Wing finally becomes the show fans know and love!

Welcome back to Kheiro’s West Wing recaps, where at long last everyone gets their s**t together

07/03/2018

According to the state of Italy he can’t hold political office, he can’t teach, and he can’t be appointed as a guardian. But for the Church he’s completely innocent and could soon be given a new posting.

A religious court found the priest not guilty even though Italy’s appeals court had previously sentenced him to jail for child molestation

26/02/2018

Want an internet landscape that promotes democracy and human rights instead of concentrating wealth and power? The UN is soliciting public opinion on how to take back the internet.

UNESCO wants the public’s help mapping the early promise versus reality of the internet

08/02/2018

Alarming stuff coming out of Italy this week

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07/02/2018

Step one: DO recognize that your insecurities are your own, and have nothing to do with your partner or the Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Welcome back to Kheiro’s West Wing recaps, where everyone is a big idiot baby

01/02/2018

"The organization, which protects and defends adversarial journalism, said it aimed to protect publications from what it calls the 'billionaire problem,' or the ability of news figures to buy publications with the intent of taking them offline, along with any unfavorable prior coverage. [...] In an interview on Wednesday, Parker Higgins, director of special projects at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said he hoped buyers’ inability to totally eliminate past coverage would discourage anyone from trying. 'The hope is: If you know that this kind of attack won’t scrub the internet of this kind of content altogether, maybe it won’t be worth undertaking the attack in the first place,' he said."

The Freedom of the Press Foundation will make copies of content from sites that it thinks are at risk of being defanged by wealthy buyers.

25/01/2018

This week we're looking at campaign finance, West Wing style!

Welcome back to Kheiro’s recaps of The West Wing, where we see how much you liberals REALLY hate plutocracy

22/01/2018

Who attended one of the global Women's March events over the weekend?? We were at the Women's March Florence ✊

19/01/2018

Is there anything more American than getting mad at the person who calls out the guy being racist, instead of at the racist himself? Find out in our latest

Welcome back to Kheiro’s West Wing recaps, where as always nothing bad happens to the racist guy

08/01/2018

In this edition of , Russia and Venezuela bet on crypto currency to circumvent sanctions, Norway stops selling weapons to the UAE, France goes after fake news, and the editors at Words Without Borders share their favorite translated works of 2017!

Headlines from around the world in the fight to protect democracy and the rule of law

04/01/2018

Start the new year off right with Kheiro's weekly recaps of ! Check out the latest here:

Welcome back to Kheiro’s West Wing recaps, where this week it’s the president’s world and CJ’s just living in it