Some 80 years ago, Roosevelt and Churchill were at their meeting with Stalin. Thirty years later, the Helsinki Accords helped doom the Iron Curtain. Here’s what we can learn on their anniversaries.
World War II
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The Supreme Court’s World War II Battles
Cliff Sloan’s lively new book explains how the Franklin Roosevelt-shaped Court wrestled with individual rights as the nation fought to save itself and the world.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Begin By Ending Cooperation in the Yemen War
The Saudis need to be punished, and there is some bipartisan consensus that we can begin by stopping our assistance with their bombing of Yemen.
Posted inPolitical Animal
A Political Upside to Making the Children Whole?
Voters should be thrilled by the sight of Democrats standing up, unafraid and unapologetic, for basic morality and simple justice.
Posted inPolitical Animal
How to Make the Children Whole
Ensuring that the immigrant children and families violated by Trump’s viciousness are compensated for their suffering must be a priority for Democrats.
Posted inMagazine
The Wins of War
World War II would rank right at the top of the list of subjects most likely to defeat any attempt to fulfill the writer’s basic mission: “make it new.” The war is too immense (could it be the single most extensive human endeavor in the history of the world?) and too well written about already by […]
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“…And if this just another job, then by God, I’m a sorry suck-egg mule!”
In the stone buildings of Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, near the track on which the young Jim Thorpe set his records as a student at the Carlisle Indian School, officers on their way to the top attend the Army War College. The students wear civilian clothes to de-emphasize difference in rank and to foster an “academic” […]
