In this year’s presidential election, terms such as “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard fairly often from Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Those phrases hark back to an ...

CNN’s Original Series Event “1968,” a four-part miniseries, airs Sunday, May 27, and Monday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET. A president with low approval ratings. Tensions between the US and North Korea.

Late at night, early in the morning, an anxious population worries about where the country is headed. The United States is mired in an unwinnable war. Washington is in disarray, its international ...

It was neither the best nor the worst of times. But in contrast to the relative placidity of the 1950s, the events of 1968 opened up previously unimaginable vistas to people all across the globe. “We ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In May 1968, students ripped up the cobblestones along the rue ...

Almost fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run for a second term as President. Johnson had gone on television at nine o’clock that ...

The most traumatic year in modern American history was 1968. But what is now the second-most traumatic year, 2020, still has seven months to run. The comparison provides little comfort, and several ...

When Robert F. Kennedy's plane touched down at Nashville's Municipal Airport, a 30-foot banner stretched across the lobby entrance. It read, "Suddenly there's hope for America." The crush of the ...

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