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...
Mar 29, 2019
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...
Nov 12, 2018
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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History echoes across the gravestones of World War I with a warning for today’s leaders
One hundred years ago -- at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month --...
Nov 10, 2018
The correspondent who exposed the “fake news” of World War One
BOSTON - At a time when women in the U.S. were still winning their right to vote, Mary...
Nov 10, 2018
Tracking the impact of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen
As fresh conflicting theories surrounding the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi emerge daily, the pressure on the...
Oct 26, 2018
The dire consequences of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, I went to Saudi Arabia to set out...
Oct 19, 2018
