| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Many families have adopted children from abroad. As the historian Arissa H. Oh writes in Made by History, the vast system of international adoption that exists today is actually a relatively recent practice, rooted in the Korean War and its aftermath. Initially created to facilitate the adoptions of children born to American service members and Korean mothers, the practice soon encompassed more children and was replicated in other countries. This spring South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) released a report on the country's international adoption system, concluding that the human rights of adoptees and birth parents were violated. Although families may have adopted with the best of intentions, the TRC's report brings needed light to a painful history. | |
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| | | | | |  | How the Iran-Contra Scandal Impacts American Politics Today | The Iran-Contra affair exposed how government officials can ignore democratic norms and practices. |
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|  | How Reagan's USAID Reforms Compared to Trump's | The road to the elimination of USAID was paved with decades-long efforts to "fix" the foreign aid program. |
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|  | How Chicago Shaped Pope Leo XIV | 'He is a man formed by his experience in the church of Chicago, especially the south side,' writes Mark Francis, CSV. |
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|  | What Is Habeas Corpus and How Is It Under Threat? | Stephen Miller said the Trump Administration is "actively looking at" the option of suspending habeas corpus. |
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|  | What to Know About Trump's Plan to Reopen Alcatraz | The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist attraction, to push back against "radicalized judges." |
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| | | | | This week in 1950: Coca-Cola |  | The May 15, 1950, cover of TIME |
| Boris Artzybasheff |
| "Coke's peaceful near-conquest of the world is one of the remarkable phenomena of the age. It has put itself (in the phrase of a Coca-Cola executive with a literary bent) 'always within an arm's length of desire.' And where there is no desire for it, Coke creates desire. Its advertising, which garnishes the world from the edge of the Arctic to the Cape of Good Hope, has created more new appetites and thirsts in more people than an army of dancing girls bearing jugs of wine…It has successfully defied the concerted attacks of all Communist mouthpieces which denounce it as a drink vile, imperialistic and poisonous. Its makers suspect that it is the biggest thing since America provided oil to light the lamps of China and celluloid fables to feed the dreams of the world." |
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| | This week in 1984: Shirley MacLaine |  | The May 14, 1984, cover of TIME |
| Gordon Munro |
| "[S]he welcomes the birthday that saddens so many people: 'I love the idea of 50, because the best is yet to come. I am going to live to be 100, because I want to, and I am going to go on learning.' In a quiet moment, she says simply, 'This has been the best year of my life.'...MacLaine is not only actress, dancer, author, traveler, political activist, feminist, ex-wife and deliberately unmotherly mother. She is also, she says, 'a former prostitute, my own daughter's daughter, and a male court jester who was beheaded by Louis XV of France'—all in past incarnations that she believes she has rediscovered with the aid of mediums, meditation and, in at least one case, acupuncture." |
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| This week in 2003: The Matrix |  | The May 12, 2003, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "The production scheme was as audacious as their narrative vision: two films shot as one, and more than two years in the making of the real (sound stage) and virtual (computer-generated) elements. They also planned a DVD package called Animatrix — nine short computer films by top Japanese and American anime directors, elaborating on the trilogy's themes and subplots (it hits stores next month) — and a nifty video game, Enter the Matrix. Hoping lightning could strike thrice, the studio — Warner Bros., which, like TIME, is part of AOL Time Warner — said yes to the tandem of sequels. 'The success of the first one created an environment for the producers to give the brothers a lot of resources,' Reeves says. 'It allowed them to pursue their use of a virtual camera, the time we got to spend on our fights. They could build whole worlds, like Zion. And they got the shooting schedule that allowed them to put all these things on film.'" |
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