Berlin Wall

The following is an excerpt from Wild Places by Sarah Baxter. From deathly divide to life line. Few would have foreseen that the dark, decades long fracturing of a continent would give the earth such respite, foster such green shoots, see natural connections spring from such grisly division. And yet,…

A boy plays basketball near the Robert E. Lee statue on June 23, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia. Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the statue taken down but a Richmond judge on June 18 indefinitely extended an injunction blocking the 130-year-old statues removal. Workers are removing Confederate statues in Virginia.They face death…

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WEBWIRE – Saturday, March 26, 2022 As Dr. McCollum remembers receiving mail from the United States Fulbright Program in Washington, two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dr. McCollum requested to go to Russia, unfortunately all positions were filled out and he was offered to teach in Romania…

Biden calls Russia's war in Ukraine a 'strategic failure'01:20 Biden meets with Ukrainian refugees in Poland03:01 Lviv hit with two Russian missile strikes, at least 5 injured02:56 Dickerson: “We can do better than that in the United States, and yet it's still better than we've done in other circumstances” 04:22 Fmr.…

Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, in Moscow. Photo / AP Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald's. It was the first American…

A strong case can be made that Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked invasion of Ukraine has galvanized the American people like no foreign event since the 1989 breaching of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin’s mad-tyrant drive has led to an outpouring of emotional support for…

Loammi Wolf is a constitutional law specialist who runs the initiative Democracy for Peace. On Friday morning we woke up to the news that the Russian army had targeted the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. If one of the Russian missiles had deflected, we would have had the biggest nuclear catastrophe…

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While there are major historical and, above all, geographical forces always in play in shaping Anglo-Irish relations, it is also true that individual politicians mattered. This is manifestly evident as one scans through the copious files just released by the Department of the Taoiseach. And it is also true that…