Beyond Trayvon: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Spread from Florida to Half the U.S.

Red poppies are a familiar sight in November. We see them pinned to the lapels of newsreaders and businessmen, youthful schoolchildren and ageing war veterans. Not a single politician is likely to front a camera without one.

Poppy Day is, as one British historian has remarked, ''cosmopolitan in origin''. It was inspired by the poem of a Canadian World War I medical officer, John McCrae, who died in 1918.   More Read