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Writer Merryana Salem reflects on the unreality of living in a time of global crisis while remembering to make dinner and do the laundry.

Amelia Glover-Jewsbury discusses the growing apathy to politics in her generation and a possible cause to explain this dissonance.

America may eschew the cruel details of Soviet elections, but we negate voters' agency just the same as the USSR.

The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. With a groundswell of mass support, both men rebelled against the established order in their respective countries and set about throwing the world into confusion. Both share an

IT’S hard not to be swept up in the hyperbole and romanticism of the Ukrainian resistance, or the folk-hero status of Volodymyr Zelensky. But then…

Those who came into adulthood as the USSR collapsed around them 30 years ago recall a time of transition.

Every evening, Soviet army vehicles ploughed the white sand beaches at the shoreline of Soviet Lithuania, on the western border of the USSR. Locals kn

Holiday reading from war lessons to Jakarta street life and Ai Weiwei | Asia’s tourism pain

BERKELEY, Calif. – At its annual convention in early November, the American Musicological Society awarded the prestigious Lewis Lockwood Award to Dr. Maria Sonevytsky for her book “Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine,” published in October 2019 by Wesleyan University Press as part of its Music/Culture series. Dr. Maria Sonevytsky The Lockwood Award “honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year in any language and in any country b...