Both films show how human faith falters in the face of planetary crisis. Only it’s not the Cold War anymore.

May 1945, just six months after my husband Hal was born, World War II in Europe ended. However, […]

We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]

University of Alabama historian Kari Frederickson’s new book offers a compelling and insightful account of the Savannah River Project, […]

Why is the sixty-five year-old spy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg back in the news? Anderson Cooper […]

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]

On September 1, 1964, Masanori Murakami threw a scoreless eighth inning for the San Francisco Giants. Amid a […]

[Editor’s Note: Fifteen years ago, a a group of Jewish and Latino activists began efforts to renovate and […]