You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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If 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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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