“So why did we invade Iraq?” Two editorials from a Coal Region newspaper. One written in the opening days of the war, full of certainty about what must come next. The other, just a year later, asking harder questions as the cost became clearer and the answers more uncertain. Read the Full Story.
“So why did we invade Iraq?” That blunt question appeared in a Pottsville, PA newspaper editorial one year after the invasion in 2004. Written as the war’s first justifications were already unraveling, it captured the uncertainty many Americans were beginning to feel. Two decades later, that war's impacts still resonate as a new conflict has begun. Read the Full Story.
The new US-Israeli air war reached the edges of one of Iran’s most important historic sites - the Golestan Palace. These moments raises a larger question about what happens when modern conflict collides with the past. This episode explores the long struggle to protect cultural heritage in wartime and why those battles still matter today. Listen to the Full Story.