She is the ultimate predator - a sleek and stealthy killer. Pouncing on her prey, she silences the baboon with one swipe of a vicious paw. Then, suddenly, something stirs in the dead animal’s fur, and the law of the jungle is rewritten.
From the bedraggled pelt of her kill crawls a tiny infant - a [...]

1989: Malta summit ends Cold War
The leaders of the two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, have declared an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks at the Malta summit.
At a joint news conference held on board the Soviet cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, the two men announced they had set [...]

Over two hundred Revolutionary War battles and skirmishes earned South Carolina the 1970s slogan “Battleground of Freedom.” Historians widely regard battles here in late 1780 and in 1781 as turning points of the war. Yet many South Carolina patriots were reluctant revolutionaries, slow to opt for independence, and the state’s many loyalists made much of [...]

Brad Warbiany wonders how the past 60 years might have been different if nuclear weapons had never been developed.

Here’s a few scenarios that I think are quite likely:
1. The Invasion of Japan
Without the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or a coup in Tokyo (which seems unlikely), the Allies would have been required to invade the [...]

I used to ask myself what I could have done to save Eddie. Now I realize: I was asking the wrong person.
I am angry when I go to the city office to reclaim Eddie’s three I.D. cards and get a World Trade Center urn. The city worker there presents me with the urn and a [...]