I covered the fall of Saigon when South Vietnam collapsed and North Vietnamese seized the city. I now ask myself: What was the sense of it all? The author standing on the steps of the former Saigon Opera, which had been converted into the South Vietnamese National...
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Pauline Bock They share a common history and culture. They speak the same language. But they have been divided for...
By Christopher Alexander Gellert The country was littered with flags this past weekend. You couldn’t walk down a street without seeing them flying in yards and from apartment windows. In Chile, September 18 marks the South American nation’s independence from...
By Diana Montaño As the guide led us through the dimly-lit concrete tunnels of Josip Broz Tito’s socialist era military bunker, I pieced together fragments of my American education. The bunker, an underground compound able to hold more than 300 people in the event of...
By Colin McIntyre A quarter century after the fall of the “Iron Curtain” and the Berlin Wall separating Communist East Europe from the West, new barriers are going up across the continent. In stark contrast to the old barriers erected by the Soviet bloc to keep its...