Collectors are bidding up the bounty on keepsake locks of the deceased and famous.
Collectors are bidding up the bounty on keepsake locks of the deceased and famous.
The 500-foot white cross atop the tomb of Spain’s Gen. Francisco Franco dominates the skyline along a highway between Madrid and Segovia. Built by slave labor, it is one of the few remaining monuments to European fascism. This week, the Spanish parliament is expected to pass a law that would remove nearly all symbols,...
A significant legacy of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi, was the return to a distinctly American mythology involving a lone hero and a maiden in need of rescue–the result of years of frontier attacks. Feminism, she contends, was among the first casualties of the war on...
Richard Rhodes has had nuclear weapons on the brain for decades. His 1986 book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, won a Pulitzer Prize and other awards. In his third book on the subject, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, he chronicles the final years of the Cold War when...
Bedlam still reigns on the primary calendar