They’re focusing on free speech and the separation of church and state when they should be thinking hard about the alienation of Muslims living in France.
In his vivid new book "Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made," award-winning historian Richard Rhodes recounts the war through the breakthroughs—military, cultural, medical and more—that took center stage in the bloody worldwide war that followed.
As Americans watch events unfold on their television screens, stereotypical understandings of African Americans too easily shape our understandings of current events.
