Fifty Octobers ago, the world faced a nuclear war that would have left this planet a very different place. The danger was every bit as it appeared. Nikita Krushchev, the Soviet leader who had secretly deployed 90 nuclear missiles in Cuba, had a back-up plan should the United States attack the weapon sites. READ MORE >>
November 14, 2009
Hope and Betrayal in Berlin
Twenty years ago, I was there when the Berlin Wall was coming down. What I witnessed about human aspiration in those magic November days in 1989 thrills me even now. But what it showed me about politics may be even more important. “What is freedom?” I began asking people as I waded through the crowd gathered at the Brandenburg Gate. READ MORE >>
