In Shibuya, Tokyo, there is a Ukrainian support center called Himawari. Here, on the 8th floor, is one of the two public ...

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Billy Bragg, who just wrote and released the song “City of Heroes,” talks with the Monitor about the impact of protest songs.

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A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.

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In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...