Tag: history
Notre Dame fire dramatizes the truly irreplaceable
If not cathedrals, what then are irreplaceable? Human life, above all, with animal and plant life close behind – and ideals and quests.
Costs of war: 17 years after 9/11, nearly half a million...
The cost of the global so-called war on terror will soon surpass $6 trillion.
The 19th-century tumult over climate change – and why it matters...
“People don’t know how to have a dialogue any more.” My hope is that the case of 19th-century climatology will remind us what a genuine dialogue looks like.
Why the time-honored White House protest needs defending
There is a lot for us to do, and unless we have public space, we can’t do the work of building a different kind of society and a different kind of world.
Ethics and empire: an open letter from Oxford scholars
Good and evil may be meaningful terms of analysis for theologians. They are useless to historians.
Don’t know much about history
Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That’s dangerous for him and all the rest of us.
Erasing History in Mesopotamia
Since the Islamic State rose out of the ashes of al Qaeda in Iraq, oil and other resource smuggling are just a few things funding this endeavor. Is this how the criminal gang now controls major cities throughout the Middle East?
Our Mania for Hope Is a Curse
“Humanity is never stationary." And it's only those who accept the very real possibility of dystopia that are the likely ones to carry out the self-sacrifice necessary for revolt.
40 Years After the US Defeat and the Liberation of Vietnam,...
Is the Pentagon's latest PR initiative to rewrite and distort the history of the Vietnam War? The Veterans for Peace campaign is calling out the Pentagon and pressuring them to correct the historical falsehoods. We need to keep the Pentagon honest.
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.