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Trump and Hitler: Too Close for Comfort Feb. 26, 2025
For years now, I've tried to resist the temptation of writing a side-by-side comparison between Dona... Read More
2025 Greenland and 1938 Czechoslovakia: Too Close for Comfort Feb. 12, 2025
History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor's and a master's in his... Read More
Mean Boys: The Bullies and the Bros Take Over Jan. 28, 2025
It's an excellent time for bullies and bros in Donald Trump's Washington, where the president wasted... Read More
No Do-Overs: Americans Reckon With the H-Word Oct. 29, 2024
On Feb. 20, 1939, 20,000 Americans filled New York City's Madison Square Garden to pronounce themsel... Read More
Trump Is Not a Fascist Oct. 29, 2024
As we finally approach the last few days of this election cycle — and the first few days of th... Read More
In 1933, Germany's Chancellor Began To Undermine Government Institutions. Thus Was Born a Dictator Oct. 22, 2024
Nearly 80 years ago, at the outset of the Battle of the Bulge, during the final months of World War ... Read More
Biden Freezes, and Old Propaganda Is Dead Jun. 18, 2024
Propaganda has always been a part of politics, working as an alliterative pair of damaging societal ... Read More
Putin and Hamas: Two Contemptible Peas From the Same Rotten Pod Jun. 12, 2024
Russia's aims and tactics in its war against Ukraine and Hamas' in its war against Israel are remark... Read More
Notes From Auschwitz Jan. 24, 2024
This week, I visited Auschwitz. I had never before visited any of the death camps. The experience is... Read More
Discredited Suisse: Congress Spotlights a Bank's Attempt to Obscure Its Nazi Links May. 16, 2023
Until lately, America's longstanding tradition of bipartisan congressional investigations had been r... Read More
Only 3 Colors on the 'Murican Flag, and Ain't None of 'Em Black May. 12, 2023
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Gunabama, announced recently that he has no objection to white supremacists... Read More
Smell Test Alert: The Embarrassing Case of Clarence Thomas Gets More Embarrassing Apr. 11, 2023
When President George H.W. Bush chose Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supre... Read More
I Can't Get the Nazi Off My Shoe Dec. 16, 2022
Writing about Nazis, in fact any contact with Nazis, is like stepping in the leavings of a large dog... Read More
The Nazis Never Win, and the Confederates Always Quit Dec. 09, 2022
In the movie "Gone With the Wind," everything is all hunky-slavey until the Confederates quit, and t... Read More
Democrats, Not 'Democracy,' at Risk Today Nov. 08, 2022
"Make no mistake — democracy is on the ballot for us all." So declaiming in his Union Station ... Read More
I'm Glad 'Maus' Was Banned Mar. 12, 2022
I owe a thank you to the Tennessee school board that banned "Maus." After the McMinn County School B... Read More
Suddenly, Democrats Are Offended by Nazi Analogies May. 28, 2021
Republican Jewish-space-laser kook Marjorie Taylor Greene offered up a nonsensical Holocaust analogy... Read More
MSNBC's Serial Smear Merchant Mar. 24, 2021
"Screw up, move up" is standard operating procedure in corporate and government bureaucracies. But i... Read More
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee? Feb. 12, 2021
Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a hyperbo... Read More
Democrats Want a 'Return to Civility'; When Did They Practice It? Part 2 Feb. 04, 2021
Last week, we covered the challenge President Joe Biden faces in his supposed quest to return to an ... Read More
