…For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia. The site…
…For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia. The site…
…For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia. The site…
…For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia. The site…
…For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago entered a world that mixed unspeakable tragedy with historical amnesia. The site…
…ref=politics> NEW YORK TIMES // JACKIE CALMES Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday announced the most sweeping and historically symbolic makeover of American currency in a century, proposing to replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet…
…resilience. While the unemployment rate has risen, it remains at 5.5 percent, which is still low by historical standards. And the economy continued to grow in the first quarter of this year. The growth is slower than we would…
…are pulled in a dozen different directions. But, isn't this a time when we could stop and admire the beauty of this historical moment? Two years in a row a U.S. president actually said the state of the…
…President Obama has a Unique Opportunity of being admitted into Parlor of Great Presidents provided having indicative historical Achievements that may be prolonged thereafter There couldn't have been any doubt that Eradication of Narcotic Vegetation might have been such…
…markets. Buyers have been demanding higher interest rates, while issuers have balked at issuing debt at historically high spreads. This dislocation has nearly paralyzed this market where states and municipalities seek financing to run basic services and finance capital projects…
…President Barack Obama used the occasion as an opportunity to kvetch about infrastructure underfunding from Congress: "The D.C. Metro historically has been a great strength of this region," he said, when asked by a reporter about WMATA's issues…
…Gen. Henry Graham at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on June 11, 1963. (AP Photo) “Historian David Kennedy of Stanford University said there are few comparisons, adding that, in branding an entire religious class of people as not welcome…
…5.7 million were displaced, and 27 thousand were kidnapped, according to Colombia's Center for Historical Memory [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0012MOfSZKrQO37cMUMeSKJSsBCAdFpTVS0brehRpNzczJZaGPcXkeUU_s5QmhSq1vmGFdOl3HqMrV3KghaW1MPFsh65aJf6lizloSr_Yi602G-YwclkRwby1PDO4K8FTpPGVIqLsptbBJeijpufWtYHHAPVm_fVHa925BdSL-5yBbSH0HF9VK5IZiL5pEB0Zg…
…resilience. While the unemployment rate has risen, it remains at 5.5 percent, which is still low by historical standards. And the economy continued to grow in the first quarter of this year. The growth is slower than we would…
…study of global affairs. Mr. Romney invited specialists like Frederick W. Kagan, a former military historian at West Point, to brief him in Boston, and he studied custom-made booklets with the names of world leaders. Mr. Bush held Sunday…
…capable of. Then you forget that most good and bad things are not unmixed.” Richard Cohen argues that “we have an obligation to place historical figures in the context of their times and to accord them what they, in some…
…unfold exactly as described, but even the momentary lift Obama's foreign policy is experiencing this fall is likely to dissipate when longer-term historical trends start to regain the upper hand. But one can hope. And there is no…
…leads to “battles over conflicting interests” (Laudato Si’, 229). The present time invites us to give priority to actions which generate new processes in society, so as to bear fruit in significant and positive historical events (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 223)…
…return to reality, as the 2008 agenda became bogged down by recession, partisanship and gridlock, it would be little more than a historical footnote--even if, as one of the innermost circle, Mr Axelrod has uncommon insights to offer. Notably…
…the sorts of Israel that might emerge from today’s intricate matrix let me dwell on the future’s most obvious quality: unimaginability. As a writer and a historian, I know that storylines do not develop the way we expect…