The issue of cultural appropriation remains a hot topic in opera. Is it still PC to have Puccini’s Madama Butterfly set in Japan or his Turandot in China? And what is to be done with Verdi’s Aida, a ...

Russian action and its puppet regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela aiming to destabilize Western world. Starting in 2014 ...

I have long been puzzled by the haste and of the conservative-interventionists’ desire for a showdown. Why do all of them ...

If you’re thinking of boycotting the US because of the threatened tariffs, this is a good time for it in the movies. The highest profile new American film today is a dud. A couple from Canada might be ...

he’s clear-eyed about the all-out descent into totalitarianism the country has experienced since those harrowing days of February 2022, when Vladimir Putin began his “special military ...

To suggest that the ends justify the means is to launch oneself down a moral, ethical and legal rabbit hole that leaves us in ...

The menacing actions of Donald Trump’s presidential administration and near certainty of worse to come had city councillors ...

AS the world continues to evolve, the contrast between democratic, authoritarian and totalitarian systems underscores the ...

Formed in 1961, the agency with a roughly $40 billion budget provides humanitarian assistance abroad and funds other projects ...

For over a decade, the Assad regime benefited from longtime allies Russia and Iran, who both committed to propping up the totalitarian ... targeting weapons depots, military assets and other ...