Bob CollinsHow the war ruined families was on display last week when complete strangers pitched in to help fix up the house for sale in Willmar.
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War
After its big hit exploring an otherwise non-descript murder case, Serial, the This American Life spinoff podcast has become something of a mystery itself since its producers announced it would be back for a second season.
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The New York Times’ expose revealing the U.S. military wants its soldiers to ignore the pedophilia of its allied military commanders demands a response to a pretty simple question: why? Read more →
There are many ‘heroes’ designated in war, but a piano player isn’t usually among them.
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Getting tripped by a TV journalist might be the best thing that’s happened in months to Osama Abdul Mohsen and his family. Read more →
The Telegraph newspaper is recreating the battle with a “live” blog as the battle raged.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, I’d forgotten how offended I was to stand on a public street and be asked — a demand really — to prove who I was to people who weren’t public servants. Read more →
Here’s the antidote for yesterday’s shocking video of refugees of war being chased down by the cops in Hungary. Read more →
This is a rather astounding piece of video from Hungary today, when the refugees who have fled war in the Middle East, broke out of a holding area and raced in search of a better life… through a corn field.
Then a TV reporter covering the story did her part to stop them. Read more →
This was a nice moment at an NFL pre-season game the other day. A returning soldier surprising his cheerleader-wife at a St. Louis Rams game. It screams ‘America!’ And also: ‘Football!’ Read more →
The mass migration of people trying to flee war has one constant: the children. Always the children. Read more →
Ray and Ellie Williams, Navy veterans who married the day after V-J Day, kicked off the anniversary of the famous kiss, captured by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square on August 14, 1945. No, they weren’t the actual people photographed in the original, but they represented the “Greatest Generation” at today’s moment. Who the original Read more →
From many indications, the militarization of local police isn’t slowing down much since the Ferguson, Mo., confrontations. And while the threat of terrorism is often stated as the reason, Mother Jones reports that a war on drugs is primarily responsible. Read more →
PRI’s ‘The World’ deserves a lot of credit for its innovative map to understand the impact of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima 70 years ago today.
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This was the last time we saw “That’s All, Brother”, the Douglas C-47 that led the D-Day invasion in World War II. The company that owned it was about to turn it into a more modern turboprop plane when someone researched its past and found it was the first plane of paratroopers into France. Read more →