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Arts and Culture Why did the twentieth century produce so many—and such vivid—dystopias, works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? After all, never had material progress been greater; never should man have felt himself freer of the anxieties that, with good reason, had beset him in the past. Famine had all but disappeared, except in civil wars or where regimes deliberately engineered it; and for the first time in history, the biblical span—or longer—was a reasonable hope for many. Medicine had conquered the dread infectious diseases ...

© Ekaterina Kondratova/Shutterstock.com California has been a hotbed of architectural changes and innovation. From the wacky to the sublime, this list shows the wide range of architectural experimentation and aesthetics in the Golden State. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. First Church of Christ Scientist Bernard Maybeck viewed the architectural canon as a style smorgasbord. Gothic, Romanesque, Asian, Arts and Crafts, Classicism—all w...

North Korea's Party Congress is Moment of Truth for Kim and Country Newsweek 1/6/2021 Tom O'Connor © Korean Central News Agency North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un presides over his ruling Korean Workers' Party 8th Party Congress on January 5 in the April 25 House of Culture, Pyongyang. "Underlining the need to start the work for further developing the overall economy of the country under a new five-year plan, the Supreme Leader analyzed the present states of the key industrial sectors including metal, chemical, electricity, coal, machine and mining industries and set...

6 countries provide $10 million in food aid to North Korea this year: UN

I remember specifically meeting a young woman in a library in pyongyang, a study house where they have access supposedly to books from all over the world. this young woman was sitting at a computer and asked her if she'd ever heard of social media, like facebook. she was 32 years old and shook her head and said no. all they have access to is a strictly controlled internet and websites if you can call them that, that are controlled by the government and only allows them to see what the government wants them to see. >> will, thank you as always, will ripley in tokyo. north korea wants that joint...