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Martin Di Caro

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Martin Di Caro was the host of the History As It Happens podcast at The Washington Times.

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President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks to reporters in Nantucket, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, about hostages freed by Hamas in a third set of releases under a four-day cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) **FILE**

History As It Happens: The Cold War liberals

The struggle against the USSR may have ended more than 30 years ago, but Cold War liberals are still looking for a global crusade rather than reforming liberalism as home, says a Yale historian.

November 27, 2023
Shoes of victims killed during Hamas' attack on the Nova Music Festival are on display as family members are called up to collect them in Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel, Nov. 19, 2023. At least 360 Israelis were killed by Hamas militants at the outdoor music festival, among the total 1,200 people killed during Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 cross-border assault. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

History As It Happens: The question of genocide

The eruption of war in Israel has led to allegations of genocide on both sides of the conflict. A leading scholar of genocide says this debate misses something important about the nature of modern warfare.

November 20, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, in Washington, Sept. 13, 1993. Israel's foreign minister told the Norwegian foreign minister Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 that Israel rejects “external dictates” on its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement from his office. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's statement comes on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian leaders which many view as the region's last gasp at peace. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

History As It Happens: Why peace failed

Thirty years after the historic signing of the Oslo Accords, the potential for peace between Jews and Arabs is a distant memory. But as war rages anew today, the two-state solution is getting another hearing.

November 8, 2023
Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

History As It Happens: From 9/11 to 10/7

The Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,400 Israelis is drawing comparisons to the al Qaeda strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These comparisons are misguided.

November 6, 2023
Congo's former prime minister Patrice Lumumba, center right, with hands tied behind his back, sits in a truck upon arrival at Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) Airport in Congo, Dec. 2, 1960, following his arrest the previous day. On Monday, more than sixty one years after his death, the mortal remains of Congo's first democratically elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba will be handed over to his children during an official ceremony in Belgium. (AP Photo, File)

History As It Happens: Ike’s assassins

In the summer of 1960, President Eisenhower told the CIA to assassinate a democratically-elected leader in Africa. A new book reckons with this shameful chapter of the Cold War.

November 1, 2023
After more than two decades of wars and U.N. embargoes, Iraq is back in the oil market just when demand is poised to surge in a way that threatens to drive up prices to destabilizing levels. (Associated Press)

History As It Happens: The oil weapon

Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War led to the Arab oil embargo, there is little reason to believe history will repeat itself as war rages in the Middle East once more.

October 30, 2023
President Joe Biden speaks about the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

History As It Happens: Bidenomics

President Biden has made ameliorating income inequality a primary goal of his economic agenda. Standing in his way are long-term structural changes in global capitalism.

October 25, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

History As It Happens: Putin’s ‘forever war’

Russia's autocratic ruler is embracing "forever war" as the organizing principle of his regime, says historian Mark Galeotti. This means Putin sees himself at war not only with Ukraine but against the West itself.

October 18, 2023
Palestinians attend a rally in support of Hamas and the Gaza Strip in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

History As It Happens: The rise of Hamas

The Islamic movement's origins date to the first Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s, but its ultimate goal of destroying the state of Israel hasn't changed.

October 11, 2023
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speak to reporters after a hearing investigating former President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 4, 2021. Now the House Judiciary Committee chairman, the longtime Republican stalwart has emerged as a top contender to replace former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was voted out of the job by a contingent of hard-right conservatives on Oct. 3, 2023, led by Gaetz. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

History As It Happens: House of chaos

The ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker's office has plunged the U.S. House into a leaderless void. But political crackup is hardly unprecedented in Washington.

October 9, 2023