Showing results for "In Time of War" in Politics & Social Sciences

Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famous war correspondent; she was a young American reporter who would soon become a renowned journalist in her own right. This is at once a portrait of a remarkable man by a woman who loved him, the story of a Middle East broken by its own divisions and outside powers and a moving account of a relationship in dark times.

"In War between Candidates, Even FBI Director Is a Target" is from the October 31, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jonathan Martin and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Committing Poetry in Times of War is a poetic glance at a community's response to the suspension and firing of teachers who supported their students' rights to speak out on the Iraq war and the subsequent police brutality that ensued.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

"In Mosul, Trapped in War of Attrition" is from the December 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Tim Arango, Eric Schmitt and Rukmini Callimachi and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"U.N. Security Council Condemns Attacks on Health Workers in War Zones" is from the May 03, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o es estudiante en una prestigiosa escuela de Nairobi cuando la guerrilla Mau Mau reclama la independencia de Kenia. La etapa de más represión del gobierno británico coincide con su entrada al instituto, donde se siente protegido. Así, cuando Ngũgĩ visita su pueblo lo encuentra devastado y trasladado cerca de la vigilancia de las autoridades en un conjunto de pueblos a modo de campo de concentración.

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far...

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Unabridged...

4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard histories of the...

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far...

"Advocating a War in Iraq, and Offering an Apology for What Came After" is from the May 13, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Tim Arango and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

"Lauer Loses the War in a Battle Between the Candidates" is from the September 8, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by James Poniewozik and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"In Congo, Wars Are Small and Chaos Is Endless" is from the April 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeffrey Gettleman and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"""How the War Ends in Syria"" is from the December 05, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter W. Galbraithand narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Civilian Casualties in Afghan War Are Unabated in 2016" is from the April 17, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

"In Fool's Errand, Scott Horton masterfully explains the tragedy of America's longest war and makes the case for immediate withdrawal. I highly recommend this excellent book on America's futile and self-defeating occupation of Afghanistan." - Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

"Mexican Military Runs up Body Count in Drug War" is from the May 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Azam Ahmed and Eric Schmitt and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"In Syrian War, Russia Has Yet to Fulfill Superpower Ambitions" is from the September 24, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Max Fisher and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Case Looms for Possible U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan" is from the November 14, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Marlise Simons and narrated by Kristi Burns.