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What Germany Can (and Can't) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

What Germany Can (and Can't) Teach America About Reparations and Evil

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By Susan Neiman | August 27, 2019

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When the Only Explanation for a Powerful Woman is Dark Magic

By Sady Doyle | August 26, 2019

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

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By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

Suketu Mehta on Fighting <br>Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Racist Populism in Trump’s America

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