Today on TAP: Is it alarmist to point out the parallels?
Germany
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Germany Finally Gets Over Austerity
Nothing like a military crisis to break the fetish for balanced budgets.
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Not So Fast on Ukraine
Today on TAP: Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.
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Guess What, America? We’ve Been on the Wrong Side All Along!
Today on TAP: Democracies are out. It’s KGB and KKK; now we’re with them all the way!
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What Trump Could Learn From Hitler on NIH Funding
Even the Führer knew to support German science, and not just for war. Why is Trump trying to destroy America’s great research universities?
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Will the Republic Strike Back?
The attempted hostile takeover of the U.S. government by Trump and Musk is beginning to hit a wall. Let’s see if the wall holds.
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Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.
Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.
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Democrats and the Euroleft
How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left?
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France: Back to Dreyfus? Vichy? No Exit From Its Fraught History?
Today on TAP: Following the EU elections, the neofascist right squares off against the neo–Popular Front left.
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Europe’s Decelerating Drift
Today on TAP: How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right?