How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
The world needs safe spaces to protect us against the oppression of the privileged. Think of Orwell’s “Animal Farm” — we have a right to be deaf! Implausible though it may seem, a few months ago I found myself in the most heartless of places....
With homeless people strewn across cities, young Americans might think the problem is inevitable. But it was not always so — and need not be. Panhandling at subway entrance on “Billionaires’ Row” (57th Street) (Photo by Susan Ruel) NEW YORK – Young people of...
I spent the past year in Beijing. The Chinese language has taught me that change is inevitable — and life will yield new loves for me. “The Orchard Pavilian Gathering” (Wikimedia Commons) This past year I lived in China as a 17-year-old American high...
It was the best of times and the worst of times. The 1960s stirred so many hopes — utopia was within reach! — only to see many crushed. The lessons? (Photos courtesy of the AP and Wikimedia Commons) This post script ends our series of articles by...
(This story has been corrected to make clear, in the fourth paragraph, that it was Shushkevich who fell victim to an anti-corruption drive, and not Lukashenko, who was a former state farm boss.) By Elaine Monaghan Twenty-one years ago, I learned the true meaning of...
When Syrian refugees started flooding into Jordan, citizens in my city were angry and concerned. But with time and investment, tensions have eased. Syrian refugee children at the Za’atari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan, 19 March 2014. (EPA/Jamal Nasrallah) This...
I returned from the Vietnam War in 1968 and helped lead the anti-war movement that exploded in Chicago. Looking back, I wonder what we learned. Chicago police officers try to disperse demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 29 August 1968....