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Bomb Scare

Arts, Culture & Media

Twenty years ago today, at a press conference aboard the Russian cruise ship Maxim Gorky, the end of the Cold War was officially declared. And yet the fear accompanying nuclear weaponry remains, as evidenced byPresident Obama’s explanationof the stakes in Afghanistan on Tuesday night: “We know that al Qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, […]

About that “Negro dialect”…

Arts, Culture & Media

Sideshow Podcast: Giving the Perfect GIF

Arts, Culture & Media

Sideshow Podcast: Giving The Perfect GIF

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Hamilton at the White House, Somewhere Over the Google Doodle, and a very funny fox win the internet this week.

Man in crowd hugging child, photo from above

Why a recent Supreme Court decision on bonds is a ‘red flag’ for immigrants in detention

Justice

A battle is on over the constitutionality of indefinite immigrant detention.

Anti-government Russian demonstrators took to the streets in Decembe, 2011, increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as he sought a new term as Russian president. The placard reads "Get tired! Leave!"

Putin’s Cold War mentality explains a lot

Books

Has the White House been meddling in Moscow? Here’s a view from on the ground in Russia.

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been arrested by authorities in Havana three times in recent years.

Cuba’s most controversial artist sketches the island’s post-Fidel future

Global Politics

Fidel Castro’s death has this Cuban artist declaring it’s time for the island to reinvent itself.

Hiroshima residents release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing.

Japanese and Americans remember the closing chapter of World War II so very differently

Justice

Here’s why President Obama won’t revisit the history of the decision to drop the A-bomb when he goes to Hiroshima on Friday.

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