It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDGrowing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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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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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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