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FDR Gets Credit for His Response to Kristallnacht. He Shouldn’t.

by Rafael Medoff

80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.

This Makes Us Susceptible to Demagoguery

by Joseph Kelly

How the “we’re the chosen people” narrative makes us susceptible to demagogues.

Christianity Is to Blame for the Bigoted Purposes to Which It’s Being Put, but ...

by Steve Patterson

There's evidence this was Christianity's original creed: "There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave or free; there is no male and female, for you are all one.”

What Would Other Presidents Have Thought of Donald Trump?

by Ronald L. Feinman

A presidential historian looks back.

What It Was Like to Work for Richard Nixon

by Stephen Hess

Excerpts from the author’s new memoir.

The Sudden Death of a Democracy: Historian Benjamin Carter Hett on the Fall of the Weimar Republic

by Robin Lindley

And the rise of Hitler. (Interview)

It's Worse than the Willie Horton Ad

by Kevin Kruse

The new ad promoted by Donald Trump that features an immigrant guilty of murder. 

The Fascinating Backstory to Jordan’s Decision to Stop Israelis from Farming Its Land

by Fredrik Meiton

It starts with a power plant built in the 1920s by a Jewish entrepreneur.

UPDATED Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?

What historians are tweeting and retweeting. 

This Is Where Antisemitism Leads

by Robert Scott Kellner

What a German diary from the Nazi era teaches us.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Understood What Donald Trump Does Not

by Robert Cohen

In this moment we need self-examination, not celebration.

The Frightening Echo of Stalin’s Antisemtic Campaign Is Impossible to Ignore

by Tarik Cyril Amar

Then, it was “rootless cosmopolitans” who were targeted. Now it’s globalists.

UPDATED What Historians Are Saying About the Pittsburgh Shooting and the Florida Bomber

Their tweets and retweets.

Will Voters Trust Candidates Under 30?

by Wallace Hettle

We’re about to find out.

This 101-Year-Old Historian’s Plea

by Vaughn Davis Bornet

The amateur in the Oval Office has to go – and soon.

Czechs Are Celebrating Their Country’s Centennial. We Should, Too.

by Daniel E. Miller

Democracy prevailed there while it’s been dying elsewhere.

Get Ready for California to Dominate Presidential Politics in 2020

by Ronald L. Feinman

As many as five serious potential candidates live there and the state’s primary will be held in March, not June, as in past years.

JFK's Humanitarian Halloween

by William Lambers

There are plenty of places that need help today.

Why Liberals Need to Be Working NOW for a Federal Jobs Program

by Steven Attewell

And the surprising reason direct job creation was abandoned after WWII.

6 Disturbing Parallels Between Stalin and Trump

by Walter G. Moss

Trump is not the monster Stalin was, but the evil he has already unleashed and his potential for causing greater future evil should not be underestimated.