You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIf your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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