
How much do you remember about 9/11? Almost certainly – unless you are quite young – you know the basics: Islamic terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. But do you remember how many American victims were murdered that day? In Mitchell Zuckoff’s book published last year, Fall and Rise: The
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In August 1989, Poland’s parliament did the unthinkable. The Soviet satellite state elected an anti-communist as its new prime minister. The world waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. And then it happened: nothing. When no Soviet tanks deployed to Poland to crush the rebels, political movements in other nations – first Hungary, followed
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Is it time for The Hate? It’s a question that we, like the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian 1984, may be asking ourselves now as we tune into a news program or click on our favorite website. For Orwell’s Winston Smith, the Two Minutes Hate occurs at 11:00 a.m. as coworkers assemble in front of
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Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. A Sunday School teacher at the Methodist church in Boonville, North Carolina taught my class this song in the late 1950s, when our state,
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I had seen complaints about the Netflix film Cuties floating around the internet for a while, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a glimpse of what they were talking about. Clips of the movie accompanied the Twitter trend #CancelNetflix. The film moments I saw before I hit the stop button are shocking, to
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When President George W. Bush launched the “War on Terror” in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, few could have predicted the campaign would entail U.S. involvement in combat in 24 countries over the next two decades. But it did, and the resulting conflicts have come at enormous costs we are only now beginning
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