The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp. For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has played host ...
As I was watching 9/11 memorials on television, I kept thinking how hard it is to believe that a quarter-century has passed since that fateful September day in New York City. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor for my generation, Gen X, and millennials. Like all Americans who were old ...
A man who worked in the cafeteria at my husband's workplace disappeared. My husband talked to him each time he stopped in for lunch. One day, my husband noted how happy the man seemed. He told my husband it was because he had his final green card interview with immigration the next ...
Germany, in its commendable efforts to prevent any recurrence of or sympathy for its Nazi past, imposes limits on political activity Americans would find appalling. And the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in its beginnings in the 2000s, as Christopher Caldwell explains in First ...
Like most Americans who were adults on Sept. 11, 2001, my life is divided into "before" and "after" 9/11. I awoke to a phone call from a friend at the airport, where her flight had been canceled, and turned on the TV just a few minutes before the second plane hit the World Trade ...
In the "Terminator" movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation's nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity. One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ...
