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1 month, 2 weeks ago

CNN's Abby Phillip Spots 1 'Real Problem' For Democrats In Blunt Postelection Take

LOADING ERROR LOADING CNN anchor Abby Phillip on Monday declared that Democrats need to “break out” of echo chambers and embrace different points of view following Donald Trump’s election win over Kamala Harris. Phillip, in remarks at Harvard University spotted by Mediaite, said she’s found that “elites” have increasingly talked exclusively to each other, which has led them to believe …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Trump election win: The Harris campaign’s most absurd response to complete failure.

Slate

It is a confusing time to be a Democrat. Trump has wasted no time outfitting his Cabinet with both familiar neocon reactionaries and darker, weirder menaces licking their chops at the damage they’ll soon be able to inflict. But I think I speak for everyone when I say the one entity I don’t need to hear anything from is the …

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2 months, 1 week ago

A Symphony of Cultures: Accordion Culture Extends Its Reach to Tacheng

China Daily

An ancient Chinese quote reflects the power of different musical expressions. In Tacheng, a city along Xinjiang's northwestern border with Kazakhstan, the beautiful landscapes and rich cultural heritage illustrate the unity of nature and the people who live there. The Accordion Culture Exhibition Hall in the city showcases the rich history and cultural significance of the instrument, with over 1,000 …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Of course ‘go woke, go broke’ isn’t true – why would it be?

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If “go woke, go broke” was …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

"It's blanket opportunism": "Rural America" author on "switch between" the "two different JD Vances"

Salon

As demonstrated this week at Chicago's United Center, modern American politics is an exercise in branding. This is the second of a two-part interview: One of the dominant narratives—which does not hold up well to the empirical evidence in the aggregate— is that Trumpism and the MAGA movement are a “revolt” by the “left behind” working class in rural red …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Xinjiang's multiethnic community fosters bonds of support, friendship

China Daily

URUMQI — Ma Hongmei, of the Hui ethnic group, has been working in a multiethnic residential community in Northwest China for 15 years. The paired assistance program is among the various activities that have been initiated by Guyuanxiang since 2001, according to Zhang Yaowen, the community's incumbent Party secretary. Zhang says that the community has some 4,800 residents, over 95 …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Xinjiang's multiethnic community fosters bonds of support, friendship

China Daily

URUMQI — Ma Hongmei, of the Hui ethnic group, has been working in a multiethnic residential community in Northwest China for 15 years. The paired assistance program is among the various activities that have been initiated by Guyuanxiang since 2001, according to Zhang Yaowen, the community's incumbent Party secretary. Zhang says that the community has some 4,800 residents, over 95 …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Russian American journalist gets 6½ years in prison after secret trial

LA Times

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia, on May 31. A court has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison after a …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Mike Muñoz: College champion of marginalized students

LA Times

Mike Muñoz bears the lofty title of superintendent-president of Long Beach City College. Progress among Black and Latino students is particularly striking, with rising enrollments and persistence rates, meaning more students continued their studies after entering instead of dropping out. He and his team have provided more campus jobs using unspent federal work study awards; free after-school care for children …

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11 months, 1 week ago

The UN's top court is ruling in a case in which Ukraine accuses Russia of backing terrorists

The Independent

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1 year ago

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. “I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

China Daily

Visitors take photos of cultural relics at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing, which opened to the public in September. It starts with Lufengpithecus lufengensis, ancient apes dating back about 8 million years, through ancient dynasties and up to the new era, and marks significant moments in time and major historical events in China's history. It serves as a kind …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

China Daily

Visitors take photos of cultural relics at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing, which opened to the public in September. It starts with Lufengpithecus lufengensis, ancient apes dating back about 8 million years, through ancient dynasties and up to the new era, and marks significant moments in time and major historical events in China's history. It serves as a kind …

China Cultural Museum Chinese Erlitou

1 year, 3 months ago

Russia’s role in Nagorno-Karabakh questioned after renewed tensions

Al Jazeera

Azerbaijan and Armenia have reached a deal after a brief offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. His parents hail from Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital since the early 1990s, when the first war between two Armenia and Azerbaijan, claimed thousands of lives, displaced up to a million and became one of the former Soviet Union’s “frozen conflicts”. “An Armenian in power with anti-Russian slogans is …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Chinese Indonesians reflect on life 25 years from Soeharto’s fall

Al Jazeera

The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice. “It’s important to emphasise that discriminatory practices and exclusionary narratives about ethnic Chinese didn’t start from the Soeharto period,” the author of the forthcoming book Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia, told Al Jazeera. Even before Indonesia’s independence in 1945, Dutch colonial …

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1 year, 8 months ago

To edit Muslims out of India’s history is to deny them a future

Al Jazeera

Other countries have made this mistake. References to independent India’s first education minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad — a senior figure in the country’s struggle for freedom from British rule, a close comrade of Mahatma Gandhi and a beacon of Hindu-Muslim unity — have been eliminated. The medieval historical period is such a crucial era of India’s past — one …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: How B.B. King helped me embrace my Romani identity

LA Times

In April 2022, I stood crying on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to B.B. “We’re here.” Back in Russia, Dad told us stories about King, who was born on a plantation in Mississippi in 1925. King’s success as a Black American and musician resonated with my father, who, as a professional musician and a Roma, yearned for that same …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Malaysia’s Anwar gets to work, promising inclusive government

Al Jazeera

Southeast Asian country’s new prime minister says he will govern for all as he reaches out across political divides. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Anwar Ibrahim has started work as Malaysia’s prime minister after promising to lead a government inclusive of everyone in the multiethnic, multireligious Southeast Asian nation. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken also offered Anwar and the …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Long-time reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysian PM

The Hindu

Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as Malaysia's prime minister on Thursday in a victory for political reformers who were locked in a battle with Malay nationalists for days after a divisive general election produced a hung Parliament. Malaysia's king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, named Mr. Anwar, 75, as the nation's tenth leader after expressing satisfaction that …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Letter From the Editors

The Diplomat

Particularly in the age of social media, narratives can take on a life of their own. This month, we take advantage of the longform format to dive deep into some topics frequenting headlines this summer: China’s upcoming Party Congress, Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, Uzbekistan’s multiethnic makeup, and North Korea’s nuclear program. Sometime this fall, the Chinese Communist Party will hold …

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2 years, 4 months ago

‘Grief and memory’: Challenging Malaysia’s historical narratives

Al Jazeera

A new documentary performance seeks to unpick the official narrative on the multiethnic Southeast Asian nation’s road to independence. “We wanted to critically bring on stage the tools of the documentary or supposed ‘truth-making’ world – various cameras and media techniques such as the green screen,” director Mark Teh, a member of the Kuala Lumpur-based collective Five Arts Centre, founded …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Meet the real-life Sharmas of Regency London: The history behind ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2

LA Times

Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury, from left, Charithra Chandran as Edwina Sharma, Shelley Conn as Mary Sharma, Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Episode 207 of “Bridgerton.” When “Bridgerton” premiered in late 2020, it broke the period drama mold by presenting an exciting, reimagined version of Regency England with a racially integrated aristocracy. Working with his writing staff and historians …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Russian jewel shines for continent-hoppers

China Daily

Elegant Russian architecture makes the streets of Kazan a joy for strolling. Then feast on the cultural melting pot of a multiethnic city where East meets West, Ren Qi reports from Kazan, Russia. If you're thinking of a trip to Russia and want to venture beyond the well-trodden tourists spots of Moscow, St. Petersburg or Sochi, the city of Kazan …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Russian jewel shines for continent-hoppers

China Daily

Elegant Russian architecture makes the streets of Kazan a joy for strolling. Then feast on the cultural melting pot of a multiethnic city where East meets West, Ren Qi reports from Kazan, Russia. If you're thinking of a trip to Russia and want to venture beyond the well-trodden tourists spots of Moscow, St. Petersburg or Sochi, the city of Kazan …

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CNN's Abby Phillip Spots 1 'Real Problem' For Democrats In Blunt Postelection Take

Trump election win: The Harris campaign’s most absurd response to complete failure.

A Symphony of Cultures: Accordion Culture Extends Its Reach to Tacheng

Of course ‘go woke, go broke’ isn’t true – why would it be?

"It's blanket opportunism": "Rural America" author on "switch between" the "two different JD Vances"

Xinjiang's multiethnic community fosters bonds of support, friendship

Xinjiang's multiethnic community fosters bonds of support, friendship

Russian American journalist gets 6½ years in prison after secret trial

Mike Muñoz: College champion of marginalized students

The UN's top court is ruling in a case in which Ukraine accuses Russia of backing terrorists

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

Russia’s role in Nagorno-Karabakh questioned after renewed tensions

Chinese Indonesians reflect on life 25 years from Soeharto’s fall

To edit Muslims out of India’s history is to deny them a future

Opinion: How B.B. King helped me embrace my Romani identity

Malaysia’s Anwar gets to work, promising inclusive government

Long-time reformist leader Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysian PM

Letter From the Editors

‘Grief and memory’: Challenging Malaysia’s historical narratives

Meet the real-life Sharmas of Regency London: The history behind ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2

Russian jewel shines for continent-hoppers

Russian jewel shines for continent-hoppers