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The first casualty of war
January 26, 2012It was really disheartening watching the Republican presidential wannabes debating in Florida last Monday.
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Alabama-Arizona immigration laws recall 1935 Germany
January 26, 2012Is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach - he who roams the nation promoting vicious anti-immigration laws and ordinances - a latter-day Julius Streicher?
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Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”
January 24, 2012There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
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Hungary’s government lurches further to the right
January 9, 2012Hungarian right-wing nationalism has its roots in the period between the two world wars.
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New film from China on the horrors of the “Rape of Nanking”
January 3, 2012What the Japanese militarists did to China is a story that every Chinese person knows well, but, I think, not so much in the West.
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