À près de 80 ans, Manana Cissé raconte toujours avec fierté son légendaire mouvement de danse ultra-rapide, impossible à saisir en photo. Née en 1947 à Boké, en Guinée, elle a rejoint les prestigieux Ballets africains à l’âge de douze ans. Aujourd’hui, elle est directrice artistique de cette troupe mythique, jadis figure de proue du renouveau culturel guinéen. Dans une interview exclusive, la grande dame de la danse évoque son parcours, son engagement auprès d’Ahmed Sékou Touré, l’héritage de Keita Fodéba et la nouvelle dynamique insufflée aux Ballets africains par le spectacle « Mansa Moussa, roi d’or ».

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As the Council of Europe debates a controversial Additional Protocol on involuntary psychiatric treatment, two of its supporters face an uncomfortable question: why do countries with some of Europe’s highest rates of compulsory psychiatric admission believe that the problem lies primarily elsewhere? Germany and Switzerland are among the countries supporting a revised draft Additional Protocol […]

Consumer prices in September jumped 3.7% from a year ago. The Social Security Administration said benefits will increase next year to help keep pace with the rising cost of living.

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Consumer prices in September jumped 3.7% from a year ago. The Social Security Administration said benefits will increase next year to help keep pace with the rising cost of living.

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Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.

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Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.

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People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.

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People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.

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With less than a month until the midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans alike are trying to identify the key battleground states and districts in which to concentrate their efforts. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what these races may mean for both parties.

“What we’re seeing right now is a referendum on the president’s policies over the past two years,” Adam Harris, a host of Radio Atlantic, said last night. “You have the war in Iran that [President Trump] can’t tether to Joe Biden,” and so now more voters are linking “the president’s policies specifically, from the war on down,” to issues such as increases in prices.

Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Carrie Dann, the managing editor of The Cook Political Report; Harris; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; and Annie Linskey, a White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

Watch the full episode here.

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