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After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

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First Alliance Credit Union is almost done demolishing its former branch office at 320 Alliance Place NE with the goal of building a new one on the site. The branch being demolished closed in 2023.

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...