Articles
The Press: World War II
What this country needs, said President Roosevelt at a press conference in April 1942, is a good name for the war. After getting thousands of suggestions, he...
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Verdun of World War II
Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Ports mouth, Plymouth, London. The roll of British ports bombed last week sounded more like a train announce ment than a report...
Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams
On the day of her TCM tribute, we recall Hollywood's gleaming, improbable star and her Technicolor water ballets
Milestones
DIED Dr. Lewis Yocum, 65. An orthopedic surgeon and expert on the elbow reconstruction called Tommy John surgery, he saved and extended the careers of hundreds...
Israel to Send African Migrants to Third Country
(JERUSALEM) — Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, according to a court document obtained Monday, a...
David Westin: Leaks Help Protect National Security
There are very few examples of the press putting the country in harm's way, and many more where the country would have been better served if they had gotten more...
The Rise (and Fall) of the VA Backlog
Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs likely won’t acknowledge it publicly until later this year, but those responsible for processing disability...
The Identity Crisis That Lurks Behind Japan’s Right-Wing Rhetoric
When anti-Japan protests, the fiercest in years, erupted in China over territorial disputes last September, I was attending a conference in Tianjin, roughly 80...
Japan Conservative Backs Off Sex Advice for Marines
TOKYO – Well, I guess it’s back to cold showers for the Marines on Okinawa. Conservative leader Toru Hashimoto apologized Monday and retracted his earlier...
Sorry, But Japan Still Can’t Get the War Right
TOKYO – After weeks of muddled statements, verbal gaffes and bungled photo ops, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made one thing unintentionally clear: He thinks...
Fighting Men, Then and Now: Part 2
Part 2 of 3 Editor’s note: Captain Donald Hansen served in Army Air Corps and later the Air Force as a B-24 bomber pilot during World War II and Korea, flying...
Cyber Insecurity: The 21st Century’s Version of Air Pollution
-- Then-defense secretary Leon Panetta referred to the threat of cyber attacks as a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” -- A senior Cyber Command official has declared that...
MacArthur’s Flawed Genius
There are some military commanders who, like Cher, Elvis and Oprah, are known by a single name: Napoleon, Patton and MacArthur come quickly to mind. Army...
Syria’s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas
Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the...
Survey: Fast Food Makes Up 54% of Restaurant Sales in France
Quelle horreur!
Living History: Computing Pioneer Harry Huskey Is Honored at 97
The Computer History Museum honors a distinguished scientist who worked on the first computer, and just kept going.
The Daily Worry: How I Learned to Live with Bombs in Turkey and Israel
TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief describes life under strict security regimes in Turkey and Israel--and how it quickly becomes normal. Are there lessons for the...
Justin Bieber Hopes Anne Frank Would Have Been A ‘Belieber’ – and the Internet Explodes
The teen pop star's inscription in the Anne Frank House museum inspired anger and derision from all corners of the opinion-o-sphere.
Once and Again
In the opening pages of kate Atkinson's Life After Life, an Englishwoman named Ursula Todd shoots Adolf Hitler in the heart as he enjoys a slice of Kirschtorte...
