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Environment	The Sustainable City: Creating Car-Free Communities This month, we talk to Dr. Eckart Würzner, the Lord Mayor of Heidelberg, Germany, about his city’s efforts to create a car-free community, and Chris Shears, an urban designer and planner who has long advocated to move Americans beyond auto dependence. William Shutkin & Andy Bush \| Apr 4, 2022
Culture	The Weird, Wonderful History of Fairground Photography An essay from renowned photography historian Clément Chéroux’s book “Since 1839... Eleven Essays on Photography." Clément Chéroux, Translated by Shane B. Lillis \| Mar 29, 2022
Culture	The Brilliant Vision of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s "Sultana’s Dream" When will we ever see realized what Sultana glimpses: the abolition of fossil-fuel technologies, the greenifying of cities, the detoxification of masculinity, and the triumph of love and truth over fear and hatred? Joshua Glenn \| Mar 24, 2022
Culture	At the Azraq Refugee Camp, Restoring Humanity Through Art and Design An excerpt from “Design to Live,” documenting designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, and Melina Philippou \| Mar 22, 2022
Culture	Crossing Borders, Imagining Heimat: On Art and Home An excerpt from Peter Chametzky’s book “Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art,” the first volume to examine multicultural visual culture in Germany. Peter Chametzky \| Mar 15, 2022
Culture	Calypso Confusion Harry Belafonte’s best-selling album “Calypso!” propelled the genre into mainstream American consciousness, but its celebration of Jamaica launched a fundamental misunderstanding that obscured calypso’s origins and colonialist history. Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder \| Mar 11, 2022
Culture	Has Higher Education in the United States Lost Its Way? In conversation with Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, authors of “The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be.” The Editors \| Mar 10, 2022
Environment	The Sustainable City Podcast: Zero-Carbon, From Buildings to Cities This month, we explore the ways cities, developers, and property owners can swap out fossil fuels for renewable, zero-carbon energy sources to power their buildings and communities. Our guest is Josh Radoff. William Shutkin & Andy Bush \| Mar 7, 2022
Media	The Soviet Union’s Desperate Efforts at Mind Control In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of very unusual broadcasts. Wladimir Velminski \| Translated by Erik Butler \| Mar 4, 2022
Science & Tech	The Devastating Effects of Nuclear Weapons Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress reveal the most horrifying realities of nuclear war. Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress \| Mar 2, 2022
Culture	The Rise of Hindu Nationalism The year 2022 marks 75 years of India’s independence — and 20 years since the anti-Muslim pogrom that foreshadowed Narendra Modi’s majoritarian reboot of Indian nationalism, writes Cherian George. Cherian George \| Feb 28, 2022
Environment	City of Weeds: Tracing the Origins of the Urban Ecological Imaginary Geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy explores the fascinating history of spontaneous forms of urban nature. Matthew Gandy \| Feb 22, 2022