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‘Don’t let it go to your head’: Descendants of US presidents bond at Truman museum
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe notion is deftly illustrated by a fractured globe at the museum and supported by the momentous...
Photos: Hiroshima after the atomic bomb – and today
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 2 days agoIn this Sept. 8, 1945 file photo, only a handful of buildings remain standing amid the wasteland of Hiroshima, the Japanese city reduced ...
This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’...
CNN.com· 4 days agoIn November 1983, the US, Soviet Union and the rest of the world were teetering closer than ever on...
WWII veteran recalls Army signup on D-Day
The Elkhart Truth, Ind. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoELKHART — Glenn Drumm turned 98 on Thursday, which also marked the 80th anniversary of both D-Day and the day he signed up for the draft. The Elkhart man ...
‘We have to be purposeful’: Progressive Caucus celebrates work in Orangeburg
The Times and Democrat· 5 days agoThe Progressive Power Tour made a stop in Orangeburg to promote the relaunch of the S.C. Legislative...
The Menace of Political Show Trials
Ludwig von Mises Institute· 2 days agoIn recent days, we have had brought home to us what “show trials” are like. Political opponents of Donald Trump charged him with felonies for acts that...
Russia rehearses delivering tactical nuclear weapons with dummy warheads
Reuters via AOL· 13 hours agoRussian drills to deploy tactical nuclear weapons for combat involved the special delivery of dummy...
Don’t Believe the Military. We Don’t “Need” More Nuclear Weapons.
The Nation· 1 day agoCertainly, my mind was clouded because two legs of that triad were the prerogative of the US Air...
US Library of Congress spotlights its American 'treasures'
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe US Library of Congress houses more than just books, with a new exhibit opening this week...
“Question 7” is an unusual, unique memoir
The Economist· 1 day agoNot Richard Flanagan’s. The Booker-prizewinning Australian author’s new memoir begins in 2012 and jumps between time periods and settings, from the...
