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VE Day: The Thread We Lost

Seventy-five million people died in World War II. The men who stormed those beaches didn’t do it so we could debate eighty-one years later whether what’s happening here qualifies as fascism. They did it so we would know it when we saw it. Continue reading

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Victory Day? Seriously? Well, F*.**

This week, Donald Trump proposed changing the name of Veterans Day to “Victory Day for World War I” and designating May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II.” His rationale? The United States, in his words, “did more than … Continue reading

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