Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

The White House confirmed today that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had revealed secret war plans in an encrypted chat group ...

Unfortunately, the government of China learned the wrong lessons from the failures of the Great Leap Forward ... by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption ...

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One such document is practically legendary: “From Dictatorship to Democracy” by Gene Sharp. It's been translated into 34 languages — including Georgian, Armenian, and Turkish — and has become the de ...

She describes her life as a “Chinese fairytale”, but there’s more to Monika Tu than just glitz, glamour and a fabulously ...

There’s a whole lot of false consciousness running around. How to battle against it?  It’s a matter of public health.  It’s as bad as the measles.  The Wobblies, or members of the IWW (Industrial ...

The October Crisis, of course, is when a Quebec nationalist terrorist group stages two political kidnappings, prompting the ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta ...

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Are we truly on the brink of a cure for obesity? Or could neglecting the root causes risk worsening the very problems we seek ...