The recently completed onec-every-five-years Party Congress in China, which confirmed Xi Jinping for a third term as General Secretary of t...

 Maybe. An October 21 report in NK Daily says so, with further speculation on this matter on blogs that cover North Korea. Supposedly Kim Jo...

 If that come to pass, especially if GOP takes both houses, presumably they will be able to do it in the lame duck session, assuming that Ma...

 The death of a Kuidish-Iranian woman doe not wearing a hijab to cover her hair has led to weeks of demonstrations led by and mostly by youn...

 When Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, completed the transfer of that company’s ownership to an environmental trust fund, it was fr...

 Yesterday I had Konstantin Sonin present a seminar at JMU on "The Degenerate Autocrat: Origins and Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine ...

 On Octobet 5, 2022, the Washington Post published a front section srtory, "Uyghyr crackdown eases, bu Xinjiang;s scars endure," b...

 Latest reports have after Putin annexed four oblasts in Ukraine the Ukrainian military making numerous gains in several of those and simply...

 My wife, Marina, has returned from a two and a half week to Moscow to visit her 93 year old mother.  She almost got bumped from her Turkish...

 One of the greatest musical performances I ever saw live was in Spring 1966, sorry have not tracked down exact date, in the University of W...

 Thomas Schelling got his Nobel Prize in economics for saving the world from global thermonuclear war in the 20th century, when many thought...

In his 1965 farewell lecture at Brandeis University, Herbert Marcuse read a long passage from the Grundrisse's " fragment on machin...

 My late mother seriously admired the now late Queen Elizabeth II. Not only was she a conservative Anglophiliac with overwhelming British an...

 It keeps looking like it might, but then ne obstacles seem to appear. President Biden promised to undo what I have long argued was the wors...

 Mikhail Sergeivich Gorbachev died on the same day as our daughter Sasha's 33rd birthday. Sasha herself noted that if it were not for hi...