This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. The favorite civic catch phrase in Los Angeles lately has been livable city. The goal of making LA more people friendly has been used to justify all ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier reminded the country of the lessons learned from World War II in a major speech on Thursday, as Germany commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the war ...

“The howl of the cave man.” This is how a 1918 Los Angeles Times article described the music of Brahms and Bach. A year earlier the U.S. had declared war against Germany and waded into the tragedy of ...

Workers assemble car during a press tour at the plant of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen Sachsen in Zwickau, Germany, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (Jens Meyer/AP) “The Gilded Age was not a golden age ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Impressionistic, subjective snapshots of complex societies are best avoided. And yet when you actually ...