Ahead, we are joined by the chief Congressional Correspondent from the Washington Examiner, great to have you with us. Guest good morning. Host lets leap ahead to january and the two runoff races in georgia, the race against the incumbent senator david perdue any other race with senator Kelly Loeffler. Have we ever seen to Senate Runoff races in any state before . Guest not my history of covering congress. Its really unusual. Its also unusual in georgia that the race has ended up in runoff territory. Georgia had been traditionally a very red state where republicans could usually count on an easy win in the statewide races. That was the last few election cycles. There has been a shift in the electorate in georgia over the areas ande the urban their suburban surroundings have gotten more blue, more democratic in their electorate. That has led to some close races where republicans cannot be assured of an easy win. Thats one reason you are seeing runoffs. I think people had thought david p
Displacement of people in a torrent cities in japan, and the continued rise of communism, soviet, union and china. Cspan or court at this event in 2013. In baruma, was educated in holland and japan. Hes won several awards for his work. Among them the international prize, and the journalism award. The publication he writes for the guardian recently published his highly learned, and highly entertaining review of the British Museum exhibition sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his previous books are teaming the gods. Religion and democracy on three continents. Murder in amsterdam. The limit of tolerance, and inventing japan, 1863 to 1960. Four in years zero, most of what he wrote while he was a fellow at the command center in 2011 and to this in 12, to the series and think of his fellows felicity was so productive. He produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in europe and asia. Skeptical about the idea that we c
By the spring of 1950, only five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea. A crowded Little Finger of land, but a key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here opened the next major chapter in the history of the United States army. The war began here at the 38th parallel. Just how did this imaginary line become the fuse for a threeyear explosion . Before the japanese surrender in world war ii, we made an agreement with the russians who were then our allies. When surrender came on the asian mainland, Russian Troops would accept the surrender of Japanese For
The 25th on december, the 1st it will have to hand over the lot in district, and that includes the important corridor connecting the corner. Kyra back to armenia. Thats now under the control of russian peacekeepers, azerbaijan will keep all of its territorial gains, including the corner kind of box 2nd city shock. Horror abdelhamid has more from election. There are very few people here at the moment weve begun. Weve barely seen any civilians. Weve seen some of the armenians who had stayed here to defend their area. You probably see behind me, theres also the russian peacekeepers. Theyve been deploying mass. Weve seen huge convoys of them along the road. Now. Theyre lachine district is the last one, handed over. It was actually the 1st one to be captured by the armenians back in the early 1990 s. Simply because it is the lifeline. Now gorno karabakh of the is this one road that goes all the way from armenia, from gori, is the border town all the way to stick by my character. And that on
The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He als