If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be
When fascism starts to feel normal, we’re all in trouble.
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CreditInterim Archives/Getty Images How Sears Was the Amazon of Its Day
It was a technological wonder — until the retail landscape changed and new innovation, and greedy owners, arrived.
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CreditGali Tibbon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting
What the astonishing Chiune Sugihara teaches us about moral heroism.
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CreditChicago History Museum/Getty Images A Place for Ida B. Wells at Ole Miss
The university should rename its school of journalism after this intrepid reporter.
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CreditLudovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images What to Do When Your Colonizer Apologizes
France finally recognizes its crimes. What does that mean for me, an Algerian in Algeria, today?
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CreditPing Zhu Harvard and the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian
We’re mistaken for each other, but we’re not mistaken about ourselves.
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CreditPool photo by Oliver Contreras Trump’s Callous Use of Kanye
Trump never cared about criminal justice reform.
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CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times What the Left Misses About Nationalism
The perception of a common national identity is essential to democracies and to the modern welfare state.
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CreditShawn Thew/EPA, via Shutterstock The Senate: Affirmative Action for White People
And why it’s time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the 51st and 52nd states.
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Credit The Pope Ignores the Damage as Another Prelate Falls
Others were more complicit in covering up priestly abuse, but Cardinal Donald Wuerl still committed serious mistakes.
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Credit War by Other Means
Some American officials appear to hope that resumed sanctions on Iran will lead to a popular uprising. Have they thought that through?
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Credit Can a Murder Verdict Help Reform Chicago Police?
An officer’s shooting of a teenager shocked the city. His conviction should force the city to act.
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Credit The World Needs Answers on Jamal Khashoggi
And President Trump should lead the way in demanding them.
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Credit Democrats, Don’t Muck This One Up
The midterms are too critical.
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Credit The Senate’s White-State Bonus
It’s time to end the longest stretch in American history without a new state.
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Credit It’s Not All About Trump
Geographic quirks, not presidential ones, could determine many midterm contests.
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Credit The Different Ends of NeverTrump
Are Trump's conservative critics really conservatives anymore?
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Credit If a Prince Murders a Journalist, That’s Not a Hiccup
In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.
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Credit Democrats Are Blowing It, Again
Liberals have become Donald Trump’s unwitting allies.
