It's an old phenomenon: When the dispossessed get clout, the past becomes a battleground. Often the stakes in the present are extraordinarily high.

An exemplary skirmish over very bad history is taking place in the U.S. Congress — in this case, the World War I slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey.

Whether or not the Ottomans' mass deportation and murder of Armenians in 1915 and 1916 reaches the formulaic, industrial magnitude of the Nazis' genocide or Stalin's decimati ...

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