Whom to believe on Ukraine: Biden, Putin, or Nikolai Gogol?
Rather than the propaganda machinery of Russia or the US, the world would be better off turning to Gogol.
So what if Putin likes Dostoyevsky?
Rather than the propaganda machinery of Russia or the US, the world would be better off turning to Gogol.
Iraj Pezeshkzad, who passed away in Los Angeles at the happy and fulfilling age of 94, was an Iranian institution.
What went wrong with Mohamed Diab’s ‘Amira’?
What is in a tree?
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It is time for the former colonial powers of the world to take responsibility for the climate emergency they created.
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It is about the American world.
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The news of Colin Powell’s passing invoked different thoughts in different people.
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By awarding this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Swedish Academy ennobled the prize itself.
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Who cares to remember Abu Ghraib?
