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Italian Food’s UNESCO Heritage Has A Secret Ingredient: The Mixing

UNESCO’s recognition highlights how migration, exchange, and diversity shaped Italian food, and why that legacy still matters today.

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This Happened

An Oil Merger To A Punk Icon’s Birth — On This Day In History November 30

An important march, the creation of one of the biggest oil companies in the world and the birth of a British star.

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Society

How Modi Is Using Architecture To Build His “New India” Political Legacy

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans for beautification supposedly capture the aspirations of citizens but are a cover for the actual political project of legitimizing his narrative of history, which glorifies right-wing groups and appropriates leaders who have been purportedly overlooked by Congress.

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Russia-Ukraine War

How Russia Is Training Its Foster Parents To “Russify” Ukrainian Orphans

Since the war began, an estimated 2,500 children have been transferred from Ukraine to Russia, where local authorities are training potential foster parents on how to raise these “children from the combat zone” and “work with their national identity.”

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Geopolitics Ideas

The Problem With The Ukrainian Identity Of Canada’s Most Powerful Woman

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, like many others, is rightly outraged at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet her emotional attachment to Ukraine, where she has family roots, risk undermining what should be her priority: the interests of Canada.

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Society

What Jews Can Teach Chinese, A View From China

Two writers explore the evolution of the Jewish and Chinese experiences, at home and abroad, finding lessons from what the two cultures share in common, and what they don’t.

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