Watch melted during atomic blast over Hiroshima sells for more than $31,000
The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. — during the closing days of World War ll
The modern dictator’s handbook
A book by Frank Dikötter analyzes the common traits of 20th century despots
Artists and writers sum up communism in three words: censorship, repression, death
The journalist and editor Manuel Florentín has published a chronicle of the persecution that totalitarian regimes have perpetrated against intellectuals and creators, from Lenin’s Soviet Union to Ortega’s Nicaragua
To visit authentic dictatorships, travel back in time
To say that we live under tyranny means to ignore the cold, poverty, and terror in which millions of people lived for hundreds of years, and that many millions still suffer
Xi Jinping becomes the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao
The secretary general, who was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, may lead China until 2032