What statesmanship is there in the signing of a lethal munition, which in the eyes of the world represents Israel's greatest sin in this war – sowing devastation in Gaza and killing innocents?

Lebanon's president condemns 'blatant crime', as Israeli strikes kill more journalists.

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Five Plovdiv Artists and Their Legacy in the City

A podcast on power, propaganda, art and culture presented by award-winning theatre director, curator and author.

How to imagine is our solemn task.

A weekly post which explores the evolving relationship between power, propaganda, art and culture written by an award-winning theatre director, curator and author. Click to read Clickbait Citizen, by ...

What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it

Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!

When the ancient actor stepped out of the chorus to comment on the action it was the equivalent of cultural nuclear fission. Authority responded, first with regulation and then with violence.

From Melno Park to Theresienstadt

Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no ...

Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.

Festivals are the decentralised and irreplaceable spaces for imagining the unimaginable. Welcome to Trieste.

Talking about the histories, politics and democracies...through a cultural lens. Click to read Clickbait Citizen, by Chris Baldwin, a Substack publication. Launched 8 hours ago.

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The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

What comes after democratic breakdown.

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Scientists have a clear vision of what 2050 will look like, shaped by the choices we make today.

As part of culture360 recent Call for articles, Chris Baldwin explores how the opening art event of Eleusis 2023 (European Captial of Culture) will mark as a defining point fo...

The art of performance is much more than the simple creation of a word in a given space and time. It is history, events, relationships between people, all concentrated in the unique here and now.

An article on democracy, culture and ownership by Chris Baldwin for the Cultural Association LOS GLAYUS - Oviedo, Spain

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