Bob CollinsEven Americans who lived through the duck-and-cover years of the Cold War must wonder every now and again whether we really have any clue at all how close the United States is to a shooting war with a super power at any given moment. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
War
When they arrived last night in Kansas City, a few people greeted them, but the family’s sponsors didn’t announce the time of their arrival so even if Kansas City wanted to put on a big display of open arms, Kansas City couldn’t. Read more →
John Witmer, of West Allis, Wis., has more than earned the right to ask a question of any one of the three men who will appear on stage tonight for the Republican presidential debate. His daughter died for his right to be able to ask it. Read more →
Ketevan Kardava had a choice photojournalists sometimes have to make. When is it time to help and when is it time to take photographs?
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It probably shouldn’t take an act of Congress to get the U.S. Government to stop illegally taking money from wounded soldiers, but apparently it’s going to. Read more →
Hayley Orlowski is full of hope that she can do something about the number of military veterans who take their own life every day, Read more →
It shouldn’t be taking this long to overturn an Army decision denying women who served as WASPs the dignity of an Arlington National Cemetery burial. Read more →
Thirteen thousand refugees are stranded at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Macedonia-Greece border, the BBC reports today.
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Although we are a land of assimilation, it’s always a good idea to remember your roots. Read more →
Want a little bit of inspiration? Then you want to watch today’s Google on this International Women’s Day. Read more →
Strohfus is survived by several generations of women who fly airplanes, and a country that could be a little more appreciative than it has been. Read more →
There were loud cheers yesterday when Master Seaman Francis Legare embraced his partner, Corey Vautour, after more than eight months at sea, the CBC reports. Read more →
Samuel Willenberg devoted most of his 97 years to preserving the memory of more than 875,000 people who were murdered by the Nazis in the Treblinka death camp in World War II. Read more →
The lost boys escaped the war between north and south region of Sudan. The north was primarily Muslim, the south Christian. Most of the boys were orphaned by the killings. About 90 percent of the boys have become American citizens since arriving in the county, the paper says, and more than 60 have graduated from college. Read more →
A 93-year-old veteran from Virginia has reunited today with the 88-year old Australian woman with whom he shared a wartime love. Read more →