Such actions by the Russians have been but an ongoing policy of retaliation toward sanctions imposed by Western nations concerning Russia’s behavior in Ukraine.
Joseph McAuley
Joseph McAuley is an assistant editor of America.
Posted inIn All Things
80 years after the birth of Social Security, remembering Miss Ida May
Eighty years have come and gone, and the Social Security Act, while derided by some—and cherished by many—is still here, helping the Ida May Fullers of our time.
Posted inIn All Things
Food as a Power Tool
Food has become a geopolitical weapon. It is not a new concept, but it is a potent one.
Posted inIn All Things
Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, and the Ghost of Clare Boothe Luce
There was a time when one woman strode across our political landscape and made men and women take notice.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Remembering the riddle, the mystery and the enigma that was Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was a complicated man who happened to be a conflicted man.
Posted inIn All Things
When LBJ went all the way to voting right(s)
People will have their opinions about the 36th President, about what he did and what he failed to do; but no one can dispute this great act.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
The Transfiguration of Paul VI
For 80 years, the pope who was born Giovanni Battista Montini, simply trusted in God and placed his hope in Him and because of that, he hoped “for good things,” like “lasting joy and mercy.”
Posted inIn All Things
Millennials, Baby Boomers, Atychipobia and the A.&P.
Before anyone gets all worked up about this blog rsquo s title and rushes to ldquo Google rdquo atychipobia nbsp or if you rsquo re of baby boomer vintage like yours truly reaches for that trusty and ever-available Webster rsquo s Collegiate I will save you the trouble This word nbsp as de
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
Ernest Hemingway and the Cost of the Writing Life
Fifty-four years ago on a July day in 1961 the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand from a shotgun blast to the head just days short of his 62nd birthday Only the world wasn rsquo t told that exactly that at first the truth wouldn rsqu
Posted inIn All Things
What Independence Meant to a Woman Who Was Once a Blue-Eyed Little Girl
On this Independence Day when the flags are unfurled and whipping in the summer breeze and the bunting is put out and the picnic tables are festooned with the arrangement of hamburgers and hot dogs the pickles and the pretzels and potato chips macaroni and potato salads and don rsquo t forget th