• Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice

    Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice

    Jun 23, 2020 10:33 PM EST

    ... to do that's all around us that, a lot of times, we ignore. These monuments were built at a time period where America was at a different crossroads, still trying to wrestle with these ideas of Black citizenship and Black dignity. And now we're at another crossroads in ...

  • WATCH: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for NIH director

    WATCH: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for NIH director

    Mar 05, 2025 03:15 PM EST

    ... the NIH, long called the government’s crown jewel, as it faces mass firings and drastic funding cutbacks. “I love the NIH but post-pandemic, America’s biomedical sciences are at a crossroads,” Bhattacharya told senators. He laid out priorities including a bigger focus on chronic diseases, including diabetes and ...

  • Ecuador to pick new president amid deepening economic crisis

    Ecuador to pick new president amid deepening economic crisis

    Feb 03, 2021 09:47 PM EST

    ... America. There’s a recession, deep political instability, (and) in October 2019, there was a massive Indigenous uprising,” said Grace M. Jaramillo, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia whose research includes Latin America. “It’s a country at a crossroads. There’s deep political polarization that has ...

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    President Bill Clinton's Full Speech at the Democratic National Convention

    Jul 26, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    ... republic, America was divided and at a crossroads, much as it is today, deeply divided over whether or not to build a real nation with a national economy and a national legal system. We chose to build a more perfect union. In the Civil War, America was at another crossroads ...

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    Photo Pioneer Muybridge Froze Time During an Era of Change

    May 05, 2010 05:55 PM EST

    ... With one foot lingering in Manifest Destiny and the other fully planted in the industrial revolution, America in the mid-19th century was at a crossroads; Muybridge was there as both documentarian and catalyst.   Watch a conversation with Philip Brookman, Curator of ‘Helios’ at the Corcoran Gallery of Art: ]>   At ...

  • How the pandemic has exposed America's deep divide

    How the pandemic has exposed America's deep divide

    Dec 24, 2020 11:35 PM EST

    ... re seeing those pressures evidence themselves in the body politic, as well as in our cultural lives. So, we're -- in some ways, we're at a crossroads, to invoke a blues metaphor. And the question is, what kind of choice will we make? And I think we're waiting ...

  • Europe at a crossroads as European Parliament elections reveal polarization

    Europe at a crossroads as European Parliament elections reveal polarization

    May 28, 2019 10:35 PM EST

    ... S. forces there. It helps ensure America's security. So Europe is very important. We have lost so much blood, so much treasure. It's a project that we have to keep fighting for. And there are a lot of ghosts that are coming back that we don't want ...

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    Gingrich on New 'Contract With America,' Jobs, Brain Research, Elites

    Sep 29, 2011 10:25 PM EST

    ... SPAN, to the kind of conversations that we really need in order for the country to make decisions that are really very fundamental. We're at a crossroads in American history that may be as decisive as anything since 1860, and we're not really geared for that kind of ...

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    Pope Benedict Says Church, American Society at a 'Crossroads'

    Apr 17, 2008 10:25 PM EST

    ... can deny that the present moment is a crossroads, not only for the church in America, but also for society as a whole? It is a time of great promise, as we see the human family in many ways drawing closer together and becoming ever more interdependent.Yet at the ...

  • European allies pledge more support for Ukraine at ‘crossroads in history’

    European allies pledge more support for Ukraine atcrossroads in history’

    Mar 02, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... with the United States. Malcolm Brabant (voice-over): Then at a special security conference in London, Zelenskyy was promised more support from what Starmer calls a coalition of willing European partners. Keir Starmer: We are at a crossroads in history today. This is not a moment for more talk. It ...