magine walking out of a grocery store into flashing police lights. Two suspects are kneeling with their hands up, visibly unarmed. Someone nearby says a drug sale may have taken place. Yet, despite the lack of threat, an officer suddenly shoots and[...]
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The War on Drugs and the Collateral Damage to Our Conscience
Boundaries are being tested and perhaps redrawn. What is war? The last time the USA actually declared war was 1941, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. That said, good luck convincing combat veterans of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan that they did[...]
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On This Day | Meeting Demand and The American Genius
It may take us till 1942 to get building enough airplanes to satisfy the demand but our experience has been that demand is a great challenge to American genius. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Meeting Demand and The American Genius
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What Ken Burns learned by making ‘The American Revolution’ (and Will You Be Watching?)
Ken Burns has spent nearly a decade unpacking the messy, violent, and deeply human story of the American Revolution — long before anyone was counting down to the 250th anniversary. In a new six-part series, he revisits the era not as a[...]
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Commentary: America, for so long a state of mind, is losing its sense of mission
America isn’t just a piece of remarkably fertile real estate between two great oceans. It is also a state of mind. Even when America has done wrong things (think racism) or stupid things (think Prohibition), it has still shone brightly to the[...]
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