Portrait of the Artist as a Young Refugee
Escaping war and transforming it into art.
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Escaping war and transforming it into art.
Johnny Depp’s clever strategy, Laura Kipnis on Title IX, and Reactionary Feminism
Tatiana Valovaya, a political appointee who heads the United Nations Office in Geneva, represents one of the world’s most important humanitarian, trade, and conflict resolution hubs. And yet, while the UN’s specialized agencies from UNHCR to WHO have denounced the carnage in Ukraine, Valovaya is silent, which highlights the UN’s already deteriorating credibility as an institution that defends human rights.
Author and global strategist Shay Khatiri lays out his worst-case scenarios for Ukraine, Europe, and the world’s geopolitical framework.
The syndrome is mysterious, the attempts to deny its existence, not so much. For decades, the US has been secretly studying ways to exploit a similar phenomenon.
Those agitating against vaccine mandates threaten to become part of a larger wave destabilizing the country by creating doubts about… almost everything.
It certainly is strange that Taylor Budowich took time out from the chaos of the day to create a new corporate entity — and later made that entity a party to a lawsuit to protect his financial records from congressional scrutiny.
A wrongly maligned bird shows us how choosing some stories and ignoring others makes us fear a world we could be taking better care of.
Almost 60 years after John F. Kennedy was killed, the government still won’t show us what it knows. And the Washington Post calls us names for complaining.
On music apps, wellness, and the many types of “tech story.”
Devastatingly accurate comments on democracy in America — and so relevant it’s scary!
What’s not cool? Privacy.