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How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary...

Visual Arts Highlights Advance warning – Noted architect/sculptor/installation artist Maya Lin who designed the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. will give a talk as part of the “SAM TALKS” series on June 29th at Seattle Art Museum. Go to seattleartmuseum...

This post is sponsored by The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to...

And the new peace feelers in the Asian Game of Zones. . . First up, from News Corp Australia, the inevitable: Four men arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack to kill Queen Elizabeth A SUSPECTED plot to kill the Queen at a Royal British Legion...

It's been quite a year. What better way to review the last 365 days than to examine, analyze, drool over and gush about the work of photojournalists and photographers, who worked to capture everything from protests to parades, scandals to celebrations...