Clyde Haberman

Q. Four decades later, trials of those held responsible are stalled. What is their purpose at this late stage? Accountability. That’s the purpose from the perspective of the survivors and human rights activists. Sixteen former military officers were on trial, including the former defense minister, José Guillermo García Merino, now 87. He was America’s man […]

A stiff measure of humility is in order, suggested Richard A. Boucher, who was the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs during the administration of President George W. Bush. “You can’t remake a country on the American image,” Mr. Boucher said to Retro Report. “You can’t win when you’re fighting people […]

Many people certainly found lifelong contentment because of having waited for the right mate. But for others, as the Retro Report video shows, the dictates of the purity movement were so emotionally onerous that their adulthoods have been filled with apprehension and, in some instances, physical pain. They are people like Linda Kay Klein, who […]

One method with promise is explored in this video from Retro Report, whose mission is to examine major events of the past for their continuing impact and enduring lessons. The underlying premise is a familiar one: giving people a genuine stake in their apartments and houses by turning renters into owners. The video focuses on […]

As shown in this latest offering from Retro Report, which uses video to cast a spotlight on past events and help illuminate the present, the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s resembled the coronavirus pandemic in a notable respect: It caught this country napping. “The flags were going up, and the warning bells were rung,” said […]

The report offered a conclusion that was deliberately worded to be head-turning: “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.” The report left scant doubt that it regarded white racism as the tinder igniting those 1960s fires. It was hardly what President Johnson had hoped to hear. He wanted […]

Though the party’s heart may have leaned rightward, its head told it back then to nominate a World War II hero and relative moderate, Dwight D. Eisenhower. That all changed in 1964. Aggrieved conservatives became “convinced that they have to take back the party from what they call the Wall Street Republicans, the New York […]

The topic has added resonance right now, given the approaching 50th anniversary of that “giant leap for mankind,” the moment on July 20, 1969, when the American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface (thereby confirming it wasn’t made of green cheese). No one has been to the […]

This arc stretched 45 years. But four months ago, the Chilean judge, Miguel Vázquez, sentenced each of eight retired military officers to prison terms of 15 years and a day for the murders of Mr. Jara and of a former prisons director, Littré Quiroga Carvajal. A ninth man received a five-year sentence for helping cover […]