George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

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This new book reminds us of the dangers of the ‘Machine’ and how we can resist it: In the early 1990s an American rock ...

In Tamil Nadu we tell women to study. But what is told in the North India? they say girls should not go to work, should be at ...

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin were an odd trio. Churchill, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, was a bullish aristocrat famous for his brandy and cigars while Roosevelt, ...

A new biography of Jessica Mitford portrays an upper class communist who fought for the poor - but travelled with 13 ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine has revived an internal security campaign that treats surrender and captivity as potential ...