Updated on Oct. 14, 2020 Photographer Gary Knight has documented war, but now he’s trying to understand peace. ...
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U.S.-Taliban deal falters amid Kabul government turmoil, renewed attacks
America’s longest war just got longer. Kabul plunged back into violence when gunmen opened fire at a ceremony...
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Stayin’ Alive: Disco, Impeachment and Iran
With the impeachment of the president and protests in the streets of Iran swirling in the news this...
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Revisiting the land of Cain and Abel in the time of Trump
Biblical tradition holds that northern Iraq is the land of Cain and Abel. And it is right there...
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America and the Kurds: A history of tragedy and betrayal
The Trump White House’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria and clear the path for neighboring...
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Where’s the transatlantic response to Russian meddling?
They are the two political cataclysms of our time — Brexit and Trump. And this week, we were...
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Humanity lost, humanity found: 25 years after Rwanda’s genocide
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Finding Humanity: A Journey in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This year, as the world remembers the 25th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide and honors one million people who...
Jan 25, 2019
A hundred years after WWI, haunting parallels between America’s Trump and Germany’s Wilhelm
An inheritor of privilege, this leader of a superpower was impatient, reckless and vulgar. He was capable of...
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From the ashes of the Great War came powerful songs and poetry.
Editor’s Note: Brian O’Donovan is the host of WGBH’s, A Celtic Sojourn, a radio program, which explores traditional...
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