Australian actress Cate Blanchett says she is bewildered by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence
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Déjà Vu: Tear Gas Released in Kosovo’s Parliament Again
Kosovo’s political opposition released tear gas into a parliamentary session in order to prevent a border agreement
Banksy mural backs jailed Turkish artist Zehra Dogan
British street artist Banksy is now showing solidarity with imprisoned Turkish-Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan
China’s new pro-Xi film is a blockbuster enforced by government
Citizens across China are being corralled into cinemas to watch a propaganda film extolling Xi Jinping
One man’s thirty-seven years of White House protest
Philipos Melaku-Bello protests from a shelter plastered with signs advocating for peace, against the nuclear industry
Why Chinese censors are blocking this woman’s viral eye-roll
China’s censors are scrambling after social media frenzy unleashed by a journalist’s reaction to a softball question
Study finds pre-election polls are still as reliable as ever
Pre-election polls are not becoming less reliable, said a study Monday addressing public distrust stemming from surprise results
New Album by Talking Heads frontman offers vision of US utopia
Artists and scholars have been churning out dystopian visions but David Byrne is defiantly chipper
Study finds personality trait link to voting patterns in UK and US
Research has shown that the best indicator of how people cast their vote are the Big Five personality traits
Cartoonist freed after 5 months in Equatorial Guinea prisons
>A cartoonist who was held in custody for more than five months in Equatorial Guinea was released on Wednesday