Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
The coming months could bring South Asia and the wider On a humid June evening in Washington, five elderly gentlemen stood quietly beyond the White House gates, watching crowds gather beneath floodlights
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus The Mystery There are certain questions that accompany humanity from the cradle to
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The Government of the Netherlands has formally apologized to mothers who were forced to give up their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, acknowledging what it described as a painful historical
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka commemorated America’s semiquincentennial—250 years of independence—with Chief Guest Minister of Health and Mass Media Nalinda Jayatissa and hundreds of Sri Lankan partners, government officials, business leaders, diplomats and friends of the United States at
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Bow your head before you read further. What follows is not an anniversary tribute. It is an accounting. For one hundred and thirty-two years, from the Mediterranean shore to the deepest Sahara,
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The Communist Party of China (CPC) has surpassed 101 million members as it marks its 105th anniversary, expanding its organizational network across Chinese society and reinforcing its central role in the country’s
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A congressional hearing on the CIA’s Cold War-era MKUltra program is set to renew attention on one of the most controversial chapters in American intelligence history, but questions remain over whether the
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While discussing about the progress of civilization, the question arises as to what should be the criteria for evaluating the progress or otherwise of civilization. Should civilization assessment be made on the
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More than seven decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, questions surrounding Josef Mengele’s escape from justice continue to resurface through fragments of forgotten records and unresolved investigations. One of the latest
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From a converted barn in New Hampshire, with an American flag draped behind him, Ken Burns looks back across nearly five decades of documenting the United States. The filmmaker, widely known as
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The winding roads of the Texas Hill Country lead not only through the landscape that shaped Lyndon Baines Johnson, but also through the unresolved questions surrounding the meaning of American leadership, democracy
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King Felipe VI of Spain and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have moved to restore diplomatic ties between their countries after seven years of political tension, meeting Thursday at Mexico’s National Palace in
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Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements.
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Across the world, the strength of a governing party is often measured through numbers: approval ratings, economic indicators, or public surveys. In China, another indicator is remarkable: the number of Party members
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Forty-two years after Operation Blue Star, the events of June 1984 remain among the most consequential and contested episodes in modern Indian history. What began as a military operation aimed at removing
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