Rush-hour traffic on Massachusetts Avenue was just beginning to thicken when a thunderous blast tore through Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C. on September 21, 1976. A car carrying Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador and outspoken critic of General Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, erupted…
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On August 4, 1914, the contours of what would become the First World War changed dramatically as three pivotal nations made their positions unmistakably clear. In response to Germany’s invasion of neutral Belgium, both Belgium and the British Empire formally declared war on the…
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