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 by David I. Kerzer Newly available Vatican documents, reported here for the first time, offer fresh insights into larger questions of how the Vatican thought about and reacted to the mass murder of Europe's Jews, and into the Vatican's mindset immediately after the war about the Holocaust, the Jewish people, and the Roman Catholic Church's role and prerogatives as an institution. |
 by Mary Ziegler Thinking historically about the abortion debate shows a shift in the ground of conflict from questions of rights to questions of restriction. The debate has always been about how the costs and benefits of childbearing are shared in society. |
 by Lawrence B. Glickman Trump's politics of fear are an extension of reactionary political rhetoric that dates back to the effort by right-wing leaders to argue that New Deal programs would lead to totalitarianism. |
 by Rick Perlstein If steady, mature Gerald Ford succumbed to haste when his presidency was on the line, imagine what Donald Trump will do. |
 by Leah Valtin-Erwin The wrenching transitions that East Germans faced in adapting to western commercial culture after reunification offer lessons for the COVID crisis, and a warning that the burdens of managing social change and stress often fall on retail workers. |
 by Joseph Stieb National security historian Joseph Stieb reviews journalist Robert Draper's account of the drive to war against Iraq in 2003, concluding that Draper explains how the principals built a case for war out of selectively embroidered intelligence, but not why war appeared as a positive option or much of the American political establishment got on board. |
 by Whitney Phillips Many complaints about "cancel culture" depend on a false equivalency between left and right forms of internet argument that ignores the nature of far-right online harassment as a tool of power. |
 by Becky Nicolaides A leading historian of American suburbs points to the fine-grained changes in the L.A. metro area that confound Donald Trump's 1950s version of the suburban dream. Do the suburbs he's pandering to even exist today? (Photo by author) |
 by Sarah Olutola Racial ideologies and practices of social control honed by colonial powers are present today in American police tactics and defenses of police abuse against communities of color. |
 by Michael J. Sandel Michael Young, who coined the term meritocracy in the late 1950s—and who used it as a pejorative—observed four decades later: "It is hard indeed in a society that makes so much of merit to be judged as having none. No underclass has ever been left as morally naked as that." | 
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 Sources close to Donald Trump cite multiple instances where the self-sacrifice of military personnel appeared incomprehensible to the President, who, those sources say, has expressed contempt for the military dead. |
 The bitter history of a federal lawsuit demanding that Yonkers, NY create low-income housing (which would allow more nonwhite residents to live in the city) informs Donald Trump's campaign pledges to protect the suburbs from evils he associates with fair housing laws. |
 Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area. |
 Landmark status would further honor Emmett and Mamie Till's tragic but critical role in American history. |
 Although the Soviet Union succeeded in testing a hydrogen bomb more than three times more powerful than the largest U.S.-tested weapon, most military leaders in the cold war sought to make the weapons smaller for strategic reasons. Recently declassified Soviet video shows the test. |
 The rise of a new generation of Black mayors in Southern cities may signal a new political dynamic as municipal governments draw energy from protest movements and improvise ways to meet public needs, if conservative state governments don't stop them. |
 Brandon Byrd argues that researching the African American intellectual tradition requires methodological flexibility and innovation to understand how Black thinkers have worked to produce ideas while being excluded from the spaces where intellectual work has typically been done. |
 We can keep calling it Jackson County, but instead of Andrew we can all agree it honors Bo. Put up a statute of Bo Jackson snapping a hickory bat over his knee, and let's call it a day. |
 Historian Marcia Chatelain's book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" is key background to a discussion of a recent lawsuit filed against McDonalds by Black franchise owners, alleging the corporation discriminated against them in allocating franchise locations. |
 Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. | 
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