Dan Rather anchored the ‘CBS Evening News’ for over 20 years, starting on March 9, 1981. But he always seemed more in his element as a reporter, and now as a news analyst on social media.
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A local historian combed through a 1967 collection of police incident reports from Philadelphia’s airport police that included detentions of soldiers and veterans.
Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dangerous.
Christopher Nolan turns Homer’s legendary warrior into a case study of moral injury, a condition that often appears in war veterans who struggle to forgive themselves.
The movie chimed with the dark 1970s zeitgeist, but it also prefigured the 21st-century America of Maga.
Overseas US military bases are integral to combat operations and can burnish the country’s image to advance its foreign policy goals.
In an increasingly unstable world, building the defence relationship with Australia makes sense. But New Zealand has to safeguard its military sovereignty, too.
Malcolm Fraser was one of the country’s longest-serving prime ministers. His support of multicultural policy forever changed Australia’s social fabric.
NATO members have been divided before. But the war in Iran could prove particularly troublesome for an alliance founded at the beginning of the Cold War.
In Donald Trump’s second term he and his advisers have repeatedly questioned US involvement in translatlantic security.
Throughout history, powerful militaries have been thwarted by smaller adversaries with more determination.
American voters, even those aligned with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, usually shift course when they see they didn’t get what they voted for. Will this fate befall Trump in November?
At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers held the power to declare war – not the president.
In 1970, National Guard troops killed four protesters at Kent State University. In 2026, federal agents killed two Minneapolis protesters. Public reaction to the deaths was significantly different.
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, because a shared world no longer exists.
During the Cold War, projecting a readiness to act erratically may have served a purpose. But it has diminishing returns if used too often.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with power, but with how we live together.
President Donald Trump should take notice: From Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, history shows leaders often pay a high political price when wars they start or expand become unpopular.
World leaders like to talk up peace at Christmastime. But alongside the tales of seasonal breaks in fighting are incidents of adversaries taking advantage of the season.
For five decades, the image was attributed to Associate Press photographer Nick Út. But a documentary recently released on Netflix is challenging this.
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