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Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. April 12, 2021 Awakening I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in. The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out. My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell of the earth. I was huddled in the dark next to my mother in a root cellar in the west of Germany, su...

What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips-"Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree" (Utne Reader)-investigates these same questions, beginning in the marketplace of modern-day Athens. He goes on to investigate the timely responses and outlooks of people from different cultures and backgrounds around the world: from Greece and Spain to Japan...

A Timeline of Minnesota's Alternative Media Last fall the Star Tribune Media Company scapegoated the coronavirus and unceremoniously pulled the plug on alt-weekly City Pages after a 41-year run. The only appropriate tribute? A snarky history of alternative presses in the Twin Cities. Expand Images courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society ( Goodhue, Der Wanderer, U of M team, Roy Wilkins); StudioSmart (gavel), Robuart (peace), Nito (flag); Deb Hopp (Twin Cities Reader); from Alamy stock photo: Everett Collection Historical (Parks); Tsuni / USA (Lizzo) Group of images from the article 1849 Jam...

Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994. Overby has covered scandals involving House Speaker Newt Gingrich, President Bill Clinton, lobbyist Jack Abramoff and others. He tracked the rise of campaign finance regulation as Congress passed campaign finance reform laws, and the rise of deregulation as Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions rolled those laws back. During President Trump's first year in office, Overby was on a team of NPR journalists covering conflicts of interest sparked by the Trump fami...

Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994.