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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…

In 1991, filming began today for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, which reassembled the Original Series cast for a prescient look at the end of the Cold War.With Star Trek: The Next Generation in its celebrated fourth season and the Star Trek movie series essentially moribund after the critically…

Forty-one years ago this summer I was a young investigator working in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC for the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, a big federal investigation chaired by Dartmouth Professor John Kemeny, who is best known as the father of the BASIC programming language.…

Previous Next Deep cuts of early rave from scenes around the globe. Transition, a new series from the Dutch label Knekelhuis, has a specific yet open-ended focus: artists who made post-punk and EBM in the '80s turning to rave culture in the early '90s. It's loosely inspired by the fall…