Daily life under military occupation is complicated, as you exhaustively covered above. It brings to mind two handbooks intended for occupied people; one from Lithuania just a few years ago (https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/16/lithuania-to-citizens-in-case-of-russian-invasion-do-your-job-worse-than-usual/):
The fall from power is never short, and it’s rarely graceful.
I come back to this thing every once in a while, I love a haka story. Read more
In 2015, Time Inc., the listing titan of 20th-century publishing, bought FanSided—a network of more than 300 sport-…
One of the most interesting things I’ve read on World War I was about the vastly different treatment of Western Front prisoners back then, where if they were officers their oath was considered trustworthy enough to allow them to be paroled for the weekends to enjoy themselves in town. Read more
When did the modern-day fitness movement really begin in the U.S.?
I won’t ever forget the photo of the minutes-old murder a prisoner at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina…
Related to the “Line Between Combatants” piece from 7/20, all of these rules are much more sensible and reasonable when adjudicated between two uniformed armed forces and their combatants. Read more
Of the many responses to Elizabeth Cambage’s historic 53-point performance with the Dallas Wings on Tuesday…
Thank you for sharing this. Your article is beautiful. Audiences and fans only ever see the final results of the sacrifices artists and athletes make. And sacrifice they do. Read more
One of the first times we meet Irina Viner-Usmanova, the head of Russia’s dominant rhythmic gymnastics program, in…
Races are won by more than just drivers. They’re won by people like Brehanna Daniels, who changes the rear tires on…
We must stand united against the Arctic before it destroys us all.
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Part of this is in our culture here in America. Look at the people that get statues they are mostly military leaders, or people who fought for something. We have holidays honoring our military and our fallen. Our text books define periods of american history by the wars fought. Read more
A wise man on his own quest for peace once said, “There will be peace when the people of the world want it so badly that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them.” Read more
The representatives of Canada and Pakistan got together at a Geneva establishment and together took a red pen to the draft AP II Read more
Not at all what I was expecting to spend my lunch break reading, but informative! Read more