McCarthyism

The Women Who Built the Bomb

Today, when we think of nuclear power, we might think of energy, or an arms race, or the incredibly tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster – which occurred two years ago today. But seventy years ago – before there was a Fukishima, or an Indian Point, or a Cold War – there was the notion that a […]

British Bank HSBC Allowed Money Laundering

Conflict & Justice

Newly Released Files Reveal Controversy Over Chaplin’s Knighthood

The World

Judging the Rosenbergs

Conflict & Justice
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

German musings on American capitalism

Arts, Culture & Media

Just weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about the rise and fall New York. The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at how Brecht’s work hits the mark nearly 80 years later.