nationalism
Nationalism a scourge in both Russia and Ukraine
March 22, 2022A correspondent finds his 2014 encounters with a cab driver and a “polite fascist” in Kiev and his time in Donbass as keys to understanding today’s disaster in Ukraine.
Read moreA criminal war ushers in the worst of times in Ukraine, Russia, and Europe
March 11, 2022March for peace wherever you can, but watch out for who is next to you and who is on the speaker’s platform.
Read more‘It was once our home’: Socialist Yugoslavia before the breakup
December 3, 2021We Yugoslav exiles now wander the world like lost strangers and bore our company with tales of a wonderful country that was once our home, a country so fantastic that it sounds a bit like a...
Read moreChristianity on display at Capitol riot sparks new debate
February 1, 2021The rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, leading to federal charges against more than 130 people so far, included several people carrying signs with Christian messages.
Read moreUnions, civil rights groups join mass NYC march against anti-Semitism
January 9, 2020Both the Southern Poverty Law Center and federal figures show huge increases in anti-Semitic crimes in the three years since President Donald Trump took office.
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