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Kit R. Roane
Kit R. Roane is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. He has worked as a journalist and documentary photographer for more than 20 years, covering local, national and foreign assignments for a variety of publications, including The New York Times and U.S. News & World Report. Kit has reported on events, from the wars in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq to the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing, the OJ Simpson case and the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He has also written several screenplays, including one for Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Putin’s Attempt to Rewrite Cold War History
The end of that standoff seemed to signal the ultimate decline of the Soviet Union and the assent of its historical enemies. The fall of the Berlin Wall reunified Germany, its greatest European nemesis. Western Europe began a long and integrated economic expansion, which helped pull the Soviet Union’s former republics and satellite states into […]
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The Cold War
Two “superpowers”—the United States and the Soviet Union—emerged from the devastation of World War II. Mistrust, fear, and deep ideological differences between the two nations led to a Cold War that lasted more than forty years. How a Cold War Airlift Saved Berlin With Food, Medicine and Chocolate A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the […]
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More US Teens Are Getting a Lesson in Evolution
Imparting that preparatory knowledge has always been tricky in certain parts of the country though, because of the view that these scientific facts are oppositional to religious beliefs — beliefs that often center on giving mankind top billing as a distinctly divine creation. This longstanding friction in certain religious circles is particularly perplexing because evolution […]