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I am living in a world that no longer exists.  I once lived in a vital world whose only limit was no-limit, “free frame of ...
In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, ...
Preliminary results of first-round voting for president of Bolivia on August 17 determined that centrist Rodrigo Paz, with 32 ...
The global music industry, while outwardly glamorous, is structurally imbalanced. The ones who suffer most are those who ...
There is an old Robin Williams gag about an unarmed English bobby who shouts at a fleeing criminal: “Stop! Or I’ll say stop ...
From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war—not ...
A whole history of art history writing could profitably be written concerning the changing uses of illustrations. When an art ...
I flew from Barcelona to Cairo via Milan to join the sizable Swiss delegation taking part in the Global March on Gaza. On the plane, I spotted other unmistakable activists linking up with the Spanish ...
Last week’s papers were so bad, I decided to go cold turkey.  It wasn’t because of the Times’ dutiful repetition of Israel’s mendacious claim that Anas-al-Sharif, murdered by the IDF along with three ...
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” – Karl Marx “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Wilhelm ...
Vladimir Putin has been demonized. Not only is the president of the Russian Federation under indictment by the International ...