2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (1395+ words) Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Art Kyiv has become one of the country's most important contemporary art events. Looking at this year's edition, which galleries, artists, or collaborations are you particularly excited about, and what makes them significant for Ukraine's evolving art…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1286+ words) Anton Obozhyn, a Kyiv-based Ukrainian programmer and longtime Wikipedian, sits at the intersection of open knowledge and wartime reality. A computer science graduate working in game development, he has contributed to Wikimedia projects since 2014 and taken on an increasingly prominent…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (999+ words) International Policy Digest Ted Turner: The Devil Behind Cable News Being very much the all-American figure that he was, the passing of Ted Turner was bound to enliven the clich" machine with the usual, clotty descriptions: the philanthropist, the conservationist,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1190+ words) Sailee Charlu is a student at Orange County School of the Arts with a deep interest in socio-cultural divides and bilingual educational equality. She founded nonprofits Habla Arte and The Lit League, both bilingual Spanish-English initiatives that bridge the language…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (81+ words) In an influential Foreign Affairs article assessing the development of the former Eastern Bloc a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman argued that Poland, unlike most of its post-communist neighbors, had become…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (438+ words) The Gypsy punk scene emerged in the late 1990s in New York's immigrant communities, coinciding with the nascent Celtic punk movement spearheaded by groups such as Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys. Due to its emphasis on eclecticism, Gypsy punk is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (558+ words) Along the way, he reflects on what endures within alphabetic systems, why the Great Vowel Shift continues to echo through contemporary spelling, and how linguistics can be rendered accessible without sacrificing its intellectual weight for a broad audience. Jacobsen: English…...