War is never pretty, but there can be levels even to the cruelty and ugliness of war, with some almost inconceivably horrendous. Such levels can be measured by one macabre metric: the number of deaths ...
The 20-year War in Afghanistan ended in August 2021, becoming America’s lengthiest conflict ever. The second Iraq War, concluding in 2011 after 8 years, was shorter. But continuing clashes with ISIS ...
World’s Fair visitors walk around the Unisphere as the Swiss Sky Ride cars are in the background 112 off the ground on April 25, 1964, in Queens, N.Y. Sixty years have passed since the opening of the ...
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented History of Now Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key ...