Most people still struggle to grasp what may have motivated Norway’s most-despised man, terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik, to kill dozens of people and harm hundreds of others. Time, the results of the ongoing investigation, and a careful reading of the “manifesto” Breivik released will surely provide some answers.
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Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute, writes and lectures on Russian economic and political reforms. Against the backdrop of Vice President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Moscow, he talked with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.
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Francis Bok is the author of the first contemporary slave narrative, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America. Now an abolitionist with the American Anti-Slavery Group, he discussed 21st century human trafficking with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.
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