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World War II
World War II news and analysis from The Nation
May 6, 2020
The dark cloud of World War II has stopped recent US leaders from seeing the world as it actually is.
May 1, 2020
A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague.
April 10, 2020
HBO’s adaption of The Plot Against America is set in an alternative reality with the same anxieties as our own.
April 9, 2020
Many of Russia’s official reactions are similar to those in the United States.
March 18, 2020
With the coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive.
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March 16, 2020
If war is the consequence of a policy, then get rid of the policy.
February 18, 2020
Focusing on the tensions between top-down reforms and bottom-up democratic discontent, Herrick Chapman’s new history tells a very different story about postwar France.
January 6, 2020
It’s tacky and willfully inauthentic. Of course it’s popular again.
August 27, 2019
Trade restrictions, an end to intelligence sharing, heated rhetoric—it’s all rooted in Japanese war crimes, papered over by a 1965 treaty in which Washington played a hidden hand.
August 23, 2019
Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.
