| US-Europe ties and the audacity of July 1948 Posted: 09 Jul 2018 01:21 PM PDT ![US-Europe ties and the audacity of July 1948]( "US-Europe ties and the audacity of July 1948") In July 1948, the first of hundreds of shiploads of American goods were docking in Europe under the Marshall Plan. The most audacious such program in history, it would, over four years, send the present-day equivalent of more than $130 billion in US aid to the shattered post-World War ll economies of Western Europe. Most of all, along with the NATO defense pact a year later, it represented a bold assertion of American leadership of an alliance of European democracies – a defining tenet of US foreign policy, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, ever since.
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| With 'zero tolerance,' new strain on already struggling immigration courts Posted: 09 Jul 2018 12:55 PM PDT ![With 'zero tolerance,' new strain on already struggling immigration courts]( "With 'zero tolerance,' new strain on already struggling immigration courts") In a federal courtroom in the border city of McAllen, Texas, two weeks ago, 74 migrants waited as Judge J. Scott Thacker confirmed their names and countries of origin. Tired and nervous, the migrants were wearing the clothes they had been arrested in, translation headsets, and ankle chains that clinked as some of them fidgeted.
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| Thai cave rescue: a metaphor on climate adaptation Posted: 09 Jul 2018 12:51 PM PDT ![Thai cave rescue: a metaphor on climate adaptation]( "Thai cave rescue: a metaphor on climate adaptation") If ever there were a global example of resilience in the face of a weather disaster, it would be the image of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped for days by flood waters in a Thai cave. The results of these pledges are mixed.
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| Cleveland uses literature to empower youth, overcome social divides Posted: 09 Jul 2018 10:28 AM PDT ![Cleveland uses literature to empower youth, overcome social divides]( "Cleveland uses literature to empower youth, overcome social divides") At a long conference table on the east side of Cleveland, Daniel Gray-Kontar listens closely as one of his students, a high school senior, starts to read her latest poem. Together they go over the rhythm and flow of her performance, and Gray-Kontar, who as usual wears a black pork pie hat and sports coat, taps on the table to indicate the pace he's seeking. In time, she may become one of his stars, like the three adult students representing Cleveland at this year's National Poetry Slam in Chicago.
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