Fire dancers bring flames and flow to Adelaide | Festivals

Flames swirl in the darkness. Gothic and tribal, pagan and punk, all at the same time. Empire Fire Festival, a free event featuring shows, installations and food, returns to Adelaide for the fourth year running this weekend. Fire art has spread from Maori dance and Samoan knife spinning to post-war tourism and raves in Hawaii. […]

A former deep-state insider lays out how the government controls the flow of information

America was once a global powerhouse, exporting not only the world’s best manufactured goods but also the world’s best ideas. Now, as the State Department exports some of the world’s worst ideas, once-bustling economic zones have become ghost towns. In “Zero Hour,” Mike Bentz, a former State Department official in the Trump administration and founder […]