Donald Trump promised a huge infrastructure push. Here’s how that has worked in other countries.

In Tuesday night's speech, President Trump promised to rebuild America. “The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding. America has spent approximately $6 trillion in the Middle East, all this while our infrastructure at home is crumbling. With the $6 trillion, we could have rebuilt our country twice, and maybe even three times, […]

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This Arab teacher’s catchy attempt to teach Hebrew has become an online sensation in Israel

  JERUSALEM — Jehan Jaber is an unlikely star. An elementary school teacher from a small Arab town in central Israel, Jaber uses a darbuka (Arab drum) and a simple chant to teach her students the Hebrew language. And, it has caught on. In a big way. Little more than a week after a crudely […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/01/this-arab-teachers-catchy-attempt-to-teach-hebrew-has-become-an-online-sensation-in-israel/

Police went on strike in a Brazilian state. The result was near-anarchy.

BRASILIA — The boardwalk along the beach in Vila Velha, a coastal town in northeastern Brazil, is normally swarming with tourists. But in early February it was deserted save for a few soldiers who marched down the road, guns held ready. Shots punctured the eerie silence as thieves held up pedestrians for their cars and purses, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/01/police-went-on-strike-in-a-brazilian-state-the-result-was-near-anarchy/

Russia’s trolly Twitter account just took aim at an Oscar winner

When “The White Helmets,” a documentary short about volunteer rescue workers in Syria, took home the Oscar on Sunday night, the group's press officer was elated. He tweeted: “the world stands with the white helmets. Standing ovation at the Oscars. We have won.” The film follows three volunteers from the Syria Civil Defense as they do […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/01/russias-trolly-twitter-account-just-took-aim-at-an-oscar-winner/

The Trump presidency ushers in a new age of militarism

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. There's a facile contention that President Trump — hostile to free trade pacts and skeptical of grand military alliances — is an isolationist, an advocate of American […]

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