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Paul Kroeger is currently an opera singer in the ensemble of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin, Germany. After six years singing as a soloist in theaters throughout Germany, he will return to Texas to study at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in the fall of 2021.
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Normalcy and Horror
On soccer fields, Russian missiles, and the rhythms of everyday life in a country under siege.
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Opera for a Broken World
Alban Berg’s atonal harmonies heralded a world grasping for modernity, write Bryan Simms and Charlotte Erwin in their recent biography.
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Demining Ukraine
Ukraine relies on agriculture–but nearly 40% of its fields have been sown with Russian landmines. A look at how deminers are fighting this inhumane tactic.
Fixing Health Care with the All-American Krankenkassen
If it has to be both revolutionary and conservative, look to the master: Bismarck.