How John Hersey Bore Witness
The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.
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Hulu’s Das Boot Gets Lost at Sea
The new remake of a World War II epic falls victim to the conventions of prestige TV.
All Over the Map
Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.
Nihilist Nation
The empty core of the Trump mystique
Don’t Count on History to Judge Wisely
The Supreme Court's rulings on Tuesday aren't certain to be condemned by future generations.
Verboten
Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter
How to Write a Nazi
The New York Times's profile of Tony Hovator shows how rhetoric is fascism's real battleground.
Alternative for Germany Strikes Fear in the Hearts of Germans
After Sunday's elections, a far-right populist party will be in Parliament for the first time since the 1960s.
Remember This: Paul Ryan Is Pandering to Neo-Nazis
He and Republicans will protect Trump from censure, hoping national outrage will have fizzled by the time Congress returns to Washington.
The Left’s Blind Spot: Anti-Semitism
The neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville highlighted the threat against Jews in Trump's America. Why do progressives struggle to recognize that?
History Will Remember the Republicans Who Appeased Trump
By not condemning him directly, they're empowering his neo-Nazi followers.
Charlottesville’s Faces of Hate
The white supremacists of the Trump era have no need to don the hood.
Donald Trump, Neo-Nazi Recruiter-in-Chief
The president does not merely "play footsie" with the white supremacists who terrorized Charlottesville. He's the lead proponent of their worldview.
An International Brotherhood of White Grievance
Trump's alt-right speech in Poland redefined the West in nativist terms, eschewing democratic idealism in favor of "blood and soil" nationalism.
Amazing Disgrace
How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs
At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.
Ironic Nazis Are Still Nazis
Hatred often hides behind a mask of jokiness.
I Was a Teenage Nazi Wannabe
The alt-right is a loser's poor fantasy of what a radical revolution looks like. I should know.
Under the Protection of Holy Sisters
A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.
