His authoritarian legacy will live on for decades to come, and in retaining power, he even trumped Trump. Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Thursday in a scene reminiscent of the yakuza films he loved so much, gunned down in a crowd by a lone shooter who didn’t even try to escape. The nation was shocked to learn that he had passed away when it was reported by state broadcaster NHK.
Painting: JORDAN CASTEEL, BARACK, 2020. OIL ON CANVAS, 30 x 45”. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CASEY KAPLAN, NEW YORK. Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’ll just kill you quickly and take your women and enslave your children, but we won’t sla
Ursula Le Guin on fiction vs. 'alternative facts': Letter to the editorUpdated: Feb. 01, 2017, 2:30 p.m.|Published: Feb. 01, 2017, 1:30 p.m. Legendary Portland writer Ursula Le Guin is pictured here in her home in this March 2016 photo.(Motoya Nakamura) A recent letter in The Oregonian compares a politician's claim to tell "alternative facts" to the inventions of science fiction. The comparison wo
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