Cold War

Like many of you, I have clear and vivid memories of the last decades of the Cold War. But by the time I was a kid the whole “duck and cover” incoming nukes drills were a thing of the past and seen as a bit hokey and arcahic. One of…

President Donald Trump cultivated a "Darwinian dynamic" within his family as his children grew up, which at times involved poking his children with a pole to get ahead of them as they raced down the mountain on family ski trips, according to a lengthy report …

The Cold War was a great time for NASA and the US Air Force. It seemed like they were able to do pretty much whatever they wanted in the interest of just seeing if they could do it. But the X-15 was much more than just a power play. Even…

Ivanka Trump and her older brother, Donald Trump Jr., have represented a “good cop/bad cop” contrast in the Trump world. Ivanka has been trying to position herself as more of a right-wing intellectual and sort of a Millennial Peggy Noonan — her father has had…

On the eve of Apple announcing the iPhone 11, a report from China Labor Watch has accused the company — along with its manufacturing partner Foxconn — of profiting from worker exploitation to build the new phone. Investigators from China Labor Watch went u…

Lara Prescott can trace her interest in Dr. Zhivago back to the beginning the very beginning of her life. She's named after one of the main characters in Boris Pasternak's novel about a doomed love affair at the time of the Russian revolution. (Prescott's mot…

My easy like Sunday morning reads: How 8chan Was Born and Became the Worst Place on the Internet (Vice) see also So Whats His Kill Count?: The Toxic Online World Where Mass Shooters Thrive (Wall Street Journal)And Now, a Word From a Fanatic (NYT)The Hedge F…

US-China trade war: Supply chains affected in Thailand - Al Jazeera English

WASHINGTON (AP) White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow compared trade talks with China on Friday to the U.S. standoff with Russia during the Cold War. In other words, negotiations could continue for a long time. U.S. and Chinese officials have agreed to h…

Comment of the Day: Kaleberg: "'...the general effect of cold war extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union by the end of the 1980s.' - George Kennan. 'The suggestion that any Administration had the power to inf…