Nobel Prize: Recognizing the 1995 discovery of the first exoplanet
Twenty-four years ago, an unassuming Swiss astrophysicist named Michel Mayor took the floor at a conference in Florence, Italy, to announce the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting … Continue reading
Recalling John Doe No. 2, phantom suspect of the 1995 OKC bombing
HLN aired recently a two-installment retrospective about the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing of 1995, as part of the cable outlet’s “How It Really Happened” crime series. The program’s timing was … Continue reading
On portraits of Clinton and Monica’s blue dress
Five years ago in Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky wrote that it was time metaphorically “to burn the beret and bury the blue dress,” those cultural reminders of her dalliance as … Continue reading
The 1995 Blog turns five: A look back at five top posts
The 1995 Blog was launched five years ago today, in the run-up to publication of my book, 1995: The Year the Future Began. The blog has served to promote the … Continue reading
O.J. Simpson, egregious again: 25 years after ex-wife’s vicious killing, he says, ‘Life is fine’
In the run-up to today’s 25th anniversary of the vicious fatal stabbing of his ex-wife, O.J. Simpson declared: “Life is fine.” It was the latest crass and gratuitous remark by … Continue reading
Fat new Holbrooke biography sheds little fresh insight on 1995 Dayton peace accords
I spent time recently with the fat, new, and acclaimed biography about Richard Holbrooke, principal architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace accords, and was surprised that it offered such scant … Continue reading
Recalling a senator’s ill-timed ’95 announcement for president
The death the other day of former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar stirred recollections about the unfortunate timing of his announcement in 1995 that he was seeking the presidency. Lugar, a … Continue reading
O.J. case ‘do over’: Why the ’95 trial is alive in popular consciousness
For Marcia Clark, the prosecutor who tried O.J. Simpson for double murder in 1995, and lost, The Fix series on ABC is something of a wishful do-over. More broadly the … Continue reading
Checking out ‘Captain Marvel’s over-the-top, 1995-throwback Web site
Anyone familiar with the clunky early Web, vintage 1995, will be surely amused by the retro design features Marvel Studios has built into its site promoting the forthcoming Captain Marvel … Continue reading
The 1995 caricature that’s ‘become part of America’s shutdown lore’
The artist who drew the most imaginative newspaper illustration of the year 1995 — a front page caricature of “Cry Baby” Newt Gingrich as a chubby, foot-stamping toddler — recalled … Continue reading
The 1995 Blog 