Berlin Wall

I've FaceTimed my best friend for two Fridays in a row now. OK, I know, that doesn't seem like much to brag about.  But that's something we never really did before — gestures vaguely at the state of the world — all of this.  I love my best friend. We…

Skip to comments. Prague mayor who removed Soviet war hero statue goes under police protection amid fears of an assassination plot after 'Russian enters Czech Republic with ricin in his briefcase' daily mail ^ | April 28, 2020 | By HARRY HOWARD FOR MAILONLINE and AFP Posted on 05/02/2020 11:46:01…

As the econom­ic dispar­ity grows today fresh proof is emergi­ng that ideas seldom die The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist and tweets @FarrukhKPitafi The First World War was raging when the German authorities struck gold in a clever idea. If they could send Vladimir Lenin and the rest of…

For a work predestined to become a political football, Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments is admirably oblivious to current events. It’s the surprise sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, coming 34 years after that culturally influential work. In recent years, it’s become part of the political miasma since its 2017 adaptation…

Skip to comments. We’re In A New Cold War, This Time With China The Federalist ^ | April 30, 2020 | Kyle Sammin Posted on 04/30/2020 5:53:20 AM PDT by Kaslin In our exultation, we forgot to finish the job. Communism lived on in mainland China, and is once again…

A decision by officials in Prague to remove a statue of a Soviet army marshal from a local park last fall has evolved into a diplomatic dust-up that has only escalated since the sculpture was finally taken down in April, pushing tensions between the Czech Republic and Russia to their…

As in much of the world, the coronavirus pandemic has shut down North Korea’s economy. The country’s fiscal resources are overwhelmed, forcing Pyongyang to issue domestic bonds for the first time in 17 years. The crisis highlights the country’s financial weakness, which stems from its decades-long self-imposed isolation and more…

This is the reckoning we had to have. The rise of China was never going to be risk-free.The coronavirus crisis has revealed what should have been plainly obvious: China and the West have been on a collision course.While China has been on the march, the West has been asleep —…

'Releasing club music right now is like going fishing in a pond where there are no fish. You throw the bait in, but it can’t be consumed when there is nothing there to consume it.' Paul van Dyk’s name is synonymous with trance. A pioneer of the genre before it…

This investigation is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune. ProPublica Illinois is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to get weekly updates about our work. Long before the coronavirus crisis shut down Illinois schools, state education officials had encouraged districts to prepare for…