As Gavin Newsom stood inside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to announce a California redistricting initiative aimed at countering gerrymandering in Texas ordered up by Donald ...
On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a critical moment in the country’s collapse from democracy to dictatorship. Today, ...
I’m always troubled when politicians or commentators attempt to link the authoritarianism of the Trump administration to 1930s Germany. The years that led to the Holocaust were unique in modern ...
As we follow the rapid succession of events in Los Angeles, where clashes between locals and police over the arrests of undocumented foreigners led to the arrival of the National Guard, we might want ...
On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, someone set fire to the Reichstag, the home of the German parliament in Berlin. In the hours after the conflagration gutted the building, Germany’s newly chosen ...
The House and the Senate, both with small Republican majorities, may soon be compelled to face the choice that the Reichstag faced in March 1933. One court has ruled that he defied the Constitution’s ...
L: In 1933, the German Reichstag building burned and Adolf Hitler’s party used the conflagration as an excuse to exert dictatorial rule. R: On January 14, 2026, Minnesota residents protested ICE ...
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