Russ McBee

Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic war would engulf all of Europe, and that it would start ''over some damn foolish thing in the ...

This article in today's NYT draws some interesting parallels between our national response to 9/11 and our collective response to Indian attacks in the 17th century. Although I think the author, Susan Faludi, may be overstating her case a bit, she makes some very good points about the mythos underlying many Americans' sense of themselves. The ...

Puerto Rico has long been a reliable source for recruits into the US military, but sentiment is shifting: On this island with a long tradition of military service, pro-independence advocates are tapping the territory's growing anti-Iraq war sentiment to revitalize their cause. As a result, 57 percent of Puerto Rico's 10th-, 11th- and ...

Only a week after the car-bombing at the Glasgow airport, BBC Scotland aired a program which brought Muslims and local and national government leaders to the same stage to discuss terrorism, the issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants in Scotland, and the recent bombings. Imagine that. Dialogue. What a concept. One of the panelists, a human ...