Clyde Haberman

The carnage was unspeakable. Across four days in December 1981, during El Salvador’s long civil war, American-trained and -equipped soldiers slaughtered nearly 1,000 civilians in and near El Mozote, a village in the country’s northeast. It was the largest massacre in recent Latin American history. Among the victims were hundreds of children. Raymond Bonner, then […]

Few people in Congress have stood as alone as Representative Barbara Lee did on Sept. 14, 2001. Three days earlier, the United States had endured the most devastating attack ever on its soil. Now Congress was called on to authorize the unleashing of American military power against Al Qaeda and its Taliban enablers in Afghanistan […]

To the uninitiated, Christianity’s evangelical movement can seem like a monolith that brooks no dissent on certain core issues: Same-sex relationships are sinful, men’s spiritual dominance over women is divinely ordained and, on the political front, Donald J. Trump was an improbable but nonetheless valued protector of the faith. Not everything is what it appears […]

Even before the pandemic rang down the curtain on much of the U.S. economy, times could be tough for the roughly 110 million Americans living in rental housing. For many of them, paying the landlord was a tattered hope and staving off the sheriff’s deputies an endless worry. Nearly 4 million eviction petitions were filed […]

Every day, an average of two dozen people fade from the ranks of those who were there when the world changed forever. They had survived the only nuclear weapons employed in combat: Japanese men and women who endured the atomic bombs that American planes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to end World […]

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci saw early on how the virus was killing people whose ability to fight disease had weakened disastrously. “I said, ‘Whoa, we really have an issue here,’ ” he said. “It seems to be spreading and spreading.” Dr. Deborah L. Birx, his colleague in the current struggle to tame the novel coronavirus, […]

A young African-American is killed by a white police officer in full view of others. Angry people take to the streets — unrest that goes on night after night, with scores injured and hundreds arrested. Sound familiar? But this was back in July 1964, in the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods of New York. And far […]

The prospect of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont becoming the Democratic presidential nominee has many moderates in the party quaking. No Democrat in the modern era has won the White House running well to the left of the political mainstream, let alone as far left as Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who isn’t even a […]

Countless songs have been written about the moon as an enduring inspiration for young lovers and a silvery symbol of mystery. Best as we can tell, no one ever swayed to music about the moon as a source of niobium, yttrium and dysprosium. Not yet anyway. By the time the next century rolls around, who […]

My guitar is not for the rich no, nothing like that. My song is of the ladder we are building to reach the stars. Those were among the last words Víctor Jara ever wrote, for a song called “Manifiesto.” Mr. Jara was a popular Chilean folk singer who dwelt on themes like poverty and injustice. […]