Yes, Putin cares about Trump’s impeachment trial — but not for the reason you might imagine
Source: The Washington Post / www.washingtonpost.com / by Jessica Pisano / Some puzzles buried in the House’s articles of impeachment may not …
As Others See It: Roger Scruton was a philosopher of a ‘humane and moderate politics’
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette / www.post-gazette.com / The British conservative died Sunday at 75 / In May 1968, visiting his girlfriend in Paris, …
How crowds toppled communism’s house of cards in 1989
Source: BBC News / www.bbc.com / By John Simpson / When the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe collapsed in the final months …
In 2020, put people first: Protesters are not ‘urban naxals.’ Government needs to listen to them
Source: The Times of India / www.timesofindia.com / By Sagarika Ghose / “Go to Pakistan,” a senior UP police officer was recently …
A Hit Man, a Detective Novelist and a Woman Who Fell From the Sky
Source: The New York Times / www.nytimes.com / By Dan Bilefsky / One writer details 10 of his most memorable profiles in …
Demands for democratic change may be spreading across Africa and the Middle East – but so is apathy
Source: Independent / www.independent.co.uk / By Borzou Daragahi / Some 41 years ago, Vaclav Havel wrote about the greengrocer who put up …
How Kremlin Coups Led to Democratic Revolutions
Source: The Algemeiner / www.algemeiner.com / By Jiri Valenta / In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was under pressure from the fundamentalist communist …
A History of Buddhism in the Czech Republic
Source: Buddhistdoor global / www.buddhistdoor.net / By Alexandra Kallay / Buddhism was established in India more than 2,500 years ago. For a …
30 years after Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, have we come full circle?
Source: History News Network / https://historynewsnetwork.org / By Gideon Remez / I’m dedicating these remarks to the memory of my dear friend …
Victims, not victors? The uniquely Czech debate over how to memorialise the Velvet Revolution
Source: The Guardian / www.theguardian.com / By Paul Wilson / Prague has long an uneasy relationship with monuments to its history – …