Cold War

—In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War as it unfolded in Asia. As John pointed out last week, the Cold War was occasionally hot, and a lot of that heat was generated in Asia. This is starting to sound weird with the hot/cold thing, so let’s just…

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—In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was the decades long conflict between the USA and the USSR. The Cold War was called cold because of the lack of actual fighting, but this is inaccurate. There was plenty of fighting, from Korea to Vie…

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(Original photo: Time, caption and editing by the Author) Chairman Powell's star has reached its apogee. The experience will be short-lived. The global forces post-2020 US Presidential Election will either significantly alter or may even halt his trajectory.…

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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis is planning to change official Catholic Church teaching to declare the use and possession of atomic weapons as “immoral,” a move that makes clear that his rejection of the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence is to be…

Standing with survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings, Pope Francis spoke in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to criticize the use of nuclear weapons and to chide countries for dismantling Cold War-era nuclear arms control agreements. What do you think? When the Va…

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett calls up Kyle Meredith to get into the details about New Age Norms 1. The album’s the first in a proposed trilogy that finds the alt rocke…

Trade truce or not, a protracted Cold War-like conflict between the United States and China has already begun. That should worry the US, which, unlike China, is devoid of a long-term strategic framework.NEW HAVEN For the last two years, the conflict between t…