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JFK’s unfinished legacy of peacemaking, a dream during the Cold War
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoKennedy’s lofty rhetoric, coupled with his energetic youth, propelled the nation into what he termed...
Trump should embrace Kennedy’s call to address chronic illness
The Washington Times· 5 hours agoFormer President Donald Trump has the ability to do this in 2024 with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when it...
Cold War CIA director's longtime mansion sells for $30 million, smashing San Marino record
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAn industrialist and California native, McCone built the estate in 1957, a year before serving as chair of the Atomic Energy Commission. He was CIA director under President John< ...
Are Russian warships in Havana a flashback to the Cuban Missile Crisis? Take a look
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhat become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the Cold War between the U.S. and...
Iran’s foothold in Venezuela requires a tougher response
The Hill· 4 days agoBiden make clear that Venezuela will be held economically, diplomatically, and militarily...
Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at 88
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoEd Stone, the scientist who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets for 50...
Don’t Believe the Military. We Don’t “Need” More Nuclear Weapons.
The Nation· 2 days agoAs a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad....
DAVID SHRIBMAN: Two presidential candidates, mired in the past
Goshen News· 1 day agoOne candidate worried about the country being a “house divided” by slavery but saw a future where...
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought...
The Conversation· 3 days agoThe publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the relationship between mental ...
When the C.I.A. Messes Up
The New Yorker· 5 days agoThe C.I.A.’s aims were rarely popular, and its meddling was detested. Washington tolerated this, perhaps even preferred it. For all the heady talk of promoting democracy, more than two-thirds ...