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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered 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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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