Someday, we will honor those who resisted Donald Trump. But first, we need far more courageous resistance.
World War II
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Did Trump Do Europe a Favor?
The EU must now look to its own political and economic interests. That could be good for European values and European union.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.
Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.
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Stop Equating Trump With Hitler! This Week, He’s More Like Stalin.
Today on TAP: Purging generals, putting intelligence in the hands of a Putin-phile, turning Justice over to an alleged predator—we’re almost back in the USSR!
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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.
Posted inPolitics
American Fascism
Author and scholar John Ganz on how Europe’s interwar period informs the present
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Atomic Frankenstein
‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Why ‘Oppenheimer’ Matters
The father of the atomic bomb still speaks to the danger of complacency.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Casablanca for Real
The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.