The Cars formed in the late 1970s as an alliance of five journeymen musicians with roots in Maryland, Ohio, New York, and New England. They had each performed in a series of bands before finding one another, along with the right sound at the right time. That sound, soon fortified by their iconic imagery, turned […]

A Memoir of survival inside Thailand’s brutal prison system. “Fourteen years.” I didn’t understand the language the judge was speaking. I understood the number. That was the moment my old life ended. For the next several years, I fought to survive inside Thailand’s most notorious prisons. I lived in overcrowded cells where hundreds of prisoners […]

What really happened during the extraordinary 48 hours when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev came face-to-face at the height of the Cold War, with the world standing on the brink of nuclear showdown? In October 1986, as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union pushed the world to a dangerous cliff, President Ronald […]