Assignment Russia Av Marvin Kalb

Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea has become a global tinder box. Kalb argues that the post-cold war world today hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia,...

A funny and brilliantly original memoir of a grandmother speaking to her granddaughter from beyond the grave

<p>Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters,...