Henry Kissinger

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Vietnam War
Political dysfunction since 1974
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Online Life
Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff: January 16, 2019
timesofisrael.com - Haviv Rettig Gur
Tell your friends to sign up for the Daily Kickoff here or for early 7AM access via Debut Inbox LONG READ — Aboard the private jet of billionaire …
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Advertising
Nike launches an auto-lacing smart sneaker, and Netflix hikes its prices: Wednesday Wake-Up Call
Ad Age - Angela Doland
Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing …
Quartz
China
A top Asia dealmaker retraces a life shaped by 40 years of US-China relations
Quartz
It was January 1979, shortly after China and the US established diplomatic relations, and just before vice premier Deng Xiaoping visited the US at the invitation of president Jimmy Carter. Shan Weijian,
Morality
Remembering Robert Parry, a Believer in Journalism
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Journalism lost one of its most valuable investigators when Robert Parry died on January 27, from pancreatic cancer, at the age of 68. He was the …
The Atlantic
Mike Pompeo
What Kissinger Knew That Pompeo Does Not
The Atlantic - Martin Indyk
Don’t promise the world if you can’t deliver. In November 1973, at the end of the Yom Kippur War, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made his first visit to Cairo, to meet Anwar Sadat, Egypt’s president.
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Advertising Industry
Remembering Carol Channing: Star of the stage, screen -- and TV commercials
Ad Age - Judann Pollack
The arts world has lost a major force with the death today of Carol Channing, musical and stage star, at the age of 97. But while the ebullient …
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Long-form Journalism
Norman Podhoretz, 89 Today, Has Made It
tabletmag.com - Lee Smith
The most famous first line in 20th-century American literature set in Kings County, New York, must be incomprehensible to many current residents of …
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Stephen Miller
More 'modest proposals' to resolve Donald Trump's border problem
AlJazeera - Hamid Dabashi
There are a number of options Mr Trump has to deal with the crowd of children at his southern border. "This is a humanitarian crisis - a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul." These beautiful penned
Robert D. Kaplan
America's Cold Warriors hold the key to handling China [Opinion]
houstonchronicle.com - By Hal Brands, Bloomberg Opinion
At times of great global upheaval, policymakers often reach for familiar historical analogies to help them make sense of an uncertain future. …
Fact Checking
Henry Kissinger did not say what you think he said about Trump
politifact.com - Ciara O'Rourke
Henry Kissinger is 95 years old. He was secretary of state, national security adviser and he served under two presidents. He also thinks "Donald …
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Democratic Primaries
Kirsten Gillibrand makes it official: She's running for president in 2020
USA TODAY - Jon Campbell
ALBANY – Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is running for president. Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, launched her campaign for the nation's highest office Tuesday night on CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the
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Tsai Ing-wen
Why China and Taiwan should set their sights on 2072 for implementing an agreement on unification
scmp.com - Tom Plate
I woke with a start from one of those awful dreams – something eerie about Taiwan and China, in which leaders from both sides had been screaming at …
U.S. Department of Justice
Trump Slices the Salami
slate.com - Yascha Mounk
“If the Russians try anything,” an adviser says in one episode of Yes, Prime Minister, the 1980s British sitcom that ranks as one of the most …
IdeaMensch
Fortune 500
Shabbir Evershine
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Whatever your passion, just do it. The world will reciprocate. Money will follow. Dreams will become realities. Take the first step — today. When …
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Chile
‘ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium’ takes a fascinating look at Victor Jara’s death
Daily Dot - Kahron Spearman
The latest—and best, so far—of Netflix‘s music-centric documentary series, ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium examines the grisly 1973 death of …
Europe
What Begins After the End of the Enlightenment? - Journal #96 January 2019 - e-flux
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In June 2018, Henry Kissinger published an article in The Atlantic titled “How the Enlightenment Ends.” At first glance, the article seems to suggest …
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Noel Edmonds
He’s had hits (as a poptastic DJ and I’m A Celebrity king) and misses (a very public divorce from his first wife and the
dailymail.co.uk - Cole Moreton
'I’m the last man standing,’ says Tony Blackburn, and he’s absolutely right. The veteran with the famously rich voice is the last of his generation …
New York Post
Uma Thurman
Elderly couple killed in blaze at high-end Manhattan building
New York Post - By Georgett Roberts and Amanda Woods
A fire at the River House — a posh Midtown East building whose residents include Hollywood starlets, business tycoons and even a former secretary of …
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Smoking
Manhattan Luxury High-Rise Apartment Fire Kills Elderly Couple
TIME - By VERENA DOBNIK / AP
(NEW YORK) — An elderly Manhattan couple died in a blaze that engulfed their luxury high-rise apartment before dawn Saturday and sent flames roaring …
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China
40 years later, U.S.-China relations are rocky. Or not.
The Washington Post - By Xiaoyu Pu
The United States and the People’s Republic of China established a formal diplomatic relationship in January 1979. Exactly 40 years later, as negotiators conclude the latest round of bilateral trade talks,
Boston
Here’s a look at the Boston-area restaurants that have closed recently (or will close soon)
bostonglobe.com - By Jaclyn Reiss
Several venerable Boston-area restaurants have announced they would close their doors in the past several weeks, citing a range of reasons from …
U.S. Marines
Roaming Charges: Que Syria, Syria
counterpunch.org - Jeffrey St. Clair
+ You believe pronouncements from this White House at your own peril. Two weeks ago it all seemed so clear. Trump announced out-of-the-blue that he …
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Catholicism
Solzhenitsyn in Exile
National Review - Christopher Caldwell
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Notre Dame University Press, 480 pp., $35) It is hard today …
Middle East
Trump and a World Without Gary Cooper
aawsat.com - Amir Taheri
Like some of his other quick-tweet decisions President Donald Trump’s announcement, last month, on troop withdrawal from Syria triggered a tsunami of …
Europe
China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making
nationalinterest.org
THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America’s leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In analyzing …
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Iran-Iraq War
Is Trump About to Become the Third U.S. Leader to Betray the Kurds?
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They always anticipated U.S. support would run out, but U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to rapidly pull U.S. forces out of northeast …
The Outlineadded this to Culture
Forgiveness
AAFU: My work nemesis has cancer
theoutline.com - Brandy Jensen
Should I put the past behind us? Brandy Jensen, The Outline’s associate editor, has made a lot of mistakes in her life. Has she learned from them and …
Kosovo
Kosovo in 2019: Pressure Mounts for Deal With Serbia
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With few issues solved in 2018, and many more inherited, Kosovo will be overwhelmed with uncertainties next year, as the momentum to find a political …
Liberal View
Farewell, Norman Birnbaum, 1926–2019
thenation.com - The Nation
Norman Birnbaum, who died on January 4 at age 92, was a valuable friend of this magazine. Upon hearing the news of his passing, Nation editor and …