Tag: East

The recent examination of the cold war era through the depiction of early 1960s Berlin in the 2015 film Bridge of Spies and the drama series Deutschland 83, reminded me of a visit I made to the city in 1986 and again in 2008. On both occasions I took a photograph from the same vantage...

Stop Logan Airport Expansion: Part One The haul road proposal in East Boston is an airport trucking expansion proposal which will add truck traffic, congestion, and pollution, and reduce public safety. Bigger warehouses and more truck access equals more trucks and more pollution. by Chris Marc...

Claiming yourself as a feminist may not always be considered “cool,” especially in a bustling East Asian city like Hong Kong. In this part of the world, you might find yourself labeled as radical, a troublemaker, or accused of enjoying a “feminism buffet,” which implies using...

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Hong Kong and East Turkistan propaganda is whitewashing genocide and human rights abuses, and enabling transnational repression. To inform the public and policymakers, this report analyzes a broad spectrum of the CCP’s propaganda practices, ...

It’s probably not the first place people think of when they are considering their favorite place in the world. It’s busy. It’s loud. It’s expensive… very expensive. And it’s in Israel and carries all the baggage that goes along with that —the politics, the ...

Lawrence Avenue is a major street running through Toronto, but I think of it as the river of my youth. Though I have lived in Scarborough, one of the city’s five districts, less than four years in total, it might as well be a lifetime. If not my formative years, they were certainly the impress...

We sometimes find ourselves confronting so many issues of racism here in America, that we ignore the significant racism against Black people in other parts of the world. Understandably, many Black Americans don’t have much bandwidth left to focus on things taking place 7,000 miles away when...

We sometimes find ourselves confronting so many issues of racism here in America, that we ignore the significant racism against Black people in other parts of the world. Understandably, many Black Americans don’t have much bandwidth left to focus on things taking place 7,000 miles away when...

Modern humans of the Initial Upper Paleolithic wave (IUP) are suggested to have expanded from a population hub through a star-like expansion pattern (>45kya), and are linked to the “East Eurasian” lineage, broadly ancestral to modern populations in Eastern Eurasia, Oceania, and the Am...

Though we may not notice it, our planet is moving and changing all the time. In fact, since Earth first formed it’s been in a constant — albeit slow — state of flux. You’re likely familiar with the map of Pangea, a period when all of the world’s current continents we...

The Romany-Gypsy people came from Central/East India more than 1500 years ago and traveled to the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Americas. From their origins in Odisha, an area of central and east India, they held Hindu beliefs, specifically Shaktism, a denomination of Hinduism. In Shaktism, a mo...