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Date: 04-12-2016 Source: The New York Times For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage? BY IAN BURUMA One of the strangest episodes...

Nigerians Saving Nigerians: www.nigerianssavingnigerians.org Pius Adesanmi Nigeria, the country on whose account we are gathered here today for a feast of reflections, is older than me. This age gap imposes certain protocols of interaction in my culture...

Visual Arts Highlights “IN-Between” is the title of an installation of the work by the Seattle architectural firm of Suyama, Peterson Deguchi. This inaugural exhibit opens Jan. 14th at the Gould Court in the UW College of Built Environments. A conversation...

I. Migration “no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark…” According to the United Nations, there are currently more displaced people on the planet than at any other time in recorded history. Nearly sixty million people have fled or have...

Kyrgyz nomads, 2011 “Act so that there is no use in a center. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to the ones preparing. They do not eat who mention silver and sweet.” — Gertrude Stein, “Rooms,” Tender Buttons (1914) IN 1983, Edward...