In the latter half of the 20th century, the legacies of abstract expressionism and conceptual art dominated the art world. Abstract expressionism was known for its hot, emotional and sensuous ...

Last Thursday, the front page of Le Monde featured a headline in its running commentary on the war in Ukraine: “Vladimir Putin assures that Russia is ready for negotiations with Kiev on the basis of ...

In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of ...

A Washington Post headline reads: “A big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who won’t retire.” For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five generations are competing in the ...

The primary aim of all education, he said, is or should be character building. In a letter to his son Manilal, written from Volksrust prison in 1909, Gandhi wrote, ‘Education does not mean a knowledge ...

Like both Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have been oppressed and dispersed and have fought for their independence as a state. Although most Kurds are Muslims, they take a variety of views on the ...

Botswana is the model of democracy, good governance and pragmatic policy. In the words of The Economist Foreign Editor Robert Guest, the country has “been governed sensibly, cautiously, and more or ...

It’s early summer in Moldova, and the cherries are already ripe. Fellow journalist Marian Männi and I pick and pop them into our mouths as we follow our chosen tour guide up a hill. We are exploring ...

AI is an increasingly visible feature of our environment. It has even achieved the status of an artificial culture. As cultures are defined by their values, do we know anything about the values of ...

The American expression, “time is money,” sits at the core of United States culture. It doesn’t just mean that you can put a price on time “spent” or that you shouldn’t waste time. The copulative use ...

The Rohingya refugee community living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, seems to have been trapped in Satan’s trifecta. With dwindling funds and increasing violence in the camps, their camp life ...

The institution of monarchy epitomizes stability. A royal family ties a nation back to history and can take a long view of events. In Southeast Asia in particular, monarchy is about traditions and ...