Five years after the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the eastern coast and triggered a tsunami that killed 18,000 people, the country paused to reflect.
Two of the principal actors—Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy—are dead; the third—J. Edgar Hoover—holds most of the secrets to himself. In this reconstruction, the result of six years of analysis and detective work, a lawyer-turned-writer pieces together the facts about the disturbing case of Washington’s spying on Dr. King.
LaGuardia is reborn, and it has a message for the nation.
For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.
Can “neurorights” protect us from the future?
The Israeli operation faces the same question that ultimately vexed the American project in Iraq: What comes next?