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Consider that a calamity in its own right. March 16, 2022 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. In certain quarters in this country, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has generated enthusiasm…

Nina Khrushcheva is a Moscow-born professor of international affairs at the New School, in New York. She is also the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the former Soviet leader famous for denouncing Stalin, enacting liberal reforms, and pursuing a policy of “peaceful coexistence” with the West. Khrushcheva has written several books…

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. Last October, I sat in the office of Klaus Emmerich—the chief union representative at the Garzweiler brown-coal mine, in western Germany—as he shared his misgivings about the country’s celebrated plan to stop burning coal. Germany’s buildup of renewable energy…

MOSCOW —  On a wintry January day in 1990, the grand opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in what was then the Soviet Union was hailed as an emblem of the thawing Cold War. A serpentine line wound through the capital’s Pushkin Square, a throng of thousands waiting patiently for a…

Russian athletes have been barred this year from the Paralympics and the World Cup. The Russian owner of an English Premier League team has seen its sale frozen in the U.K. – and no new tickets can be sold for games. An international cat association even banned Russian cats. And…

Pictures have emerged from inside an abandoned underground bunker in Wales that dates back to the beginning of the Cold War. Dozens of bunkers that were built to be used as Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts remain scattered across northern parts of Wales to this day, though the…

The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze. February 4, 2022 The American labor movement was built by Black workers, organizers, and activists, from the Rev. Addie L. Wyatt to Lucy Parsons to the washerwomen of…

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What exactly does it mean to be free? “Freedom” was the mantra of the Cold War, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, it is most often associated with the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution, the country’s secular bible: freedom of the press,…