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.
World War II
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Trumanesque Strategy
Today on TAP: As in 1948, so in 2024—blue-collar workers are the ball game.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Government Provided Child Care in World War II. We Need It Again.
Women worked then, women work now. It’s time for national child care—permanently.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Will Federal Child Care Support Vanish Again?
The World War II precedent and today’s pandemic
Posted inAmerica and the World
Donald Trump, the Golan, and the Return of the Old World Disorder
The president is dismantling the post-World War II measures meant to prevent another such catastrophe. Historical ignorance is his enabler.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Nativist Didn’t Return. He Was Waiting Here All Along
A new exhibition of photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II sheds light on the same racial nativism fueling Trumpism.
