What prompted changes to the way we say Ukraine’s capital city?
Museums are returning pieces stolen from their original owners
The unlikely origins of the capital’s cherry blossom bonanza
Plus: Jewish persecution in Spain, and the Falkland War
The Bombardment imagines a God who loses control and “drops pencils”
The faith of Jackie Robinson and others changed baseball, and America
Try not to underestimate—or overestimate
Bell ringers in Australia are keeping a 17th century tradition alive
Plus: the beginning of gerrymandering, and Russia’s annexation of Crimea
A figure of speech that relies on contradictions