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Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country

by Seyward Darby March 22, 2023March 22, 2023

“Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

by Seyward Darby March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Collaborators

by Seyward Darby February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

“As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Heart Is Not a Nation

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 4, 2020October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet explores hate and Trumpism in America.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Terezin Diary

by Sari Botton September 16, 2019October 19, 2022

Octogenarian documentary filmmaker Zuzana Justman tells the story of her family’s imprisonment at Terezin, a Czech concentration camp also known as Theresienstadt, through the lens of what she didn’t write in the diary she kept then, which she relocated a few years ago.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

The Day New York Rose Up Against the Nazis On the Hudson

by Longreads March 25, 2019October 19, 2022

In 1935, a group of New York communists boarded a German luxury liner during a lavish sending-off party attended by celebrities, Rockefellers, and Roosevelts. Their goal: capture the swastika.

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Science & Nature, Story

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Angora

by Katy Kelleher December 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Angora rabbit fur is fluffy, and silky, and was especially popular with two influential 20th-century groups: Hollywood starlets and Nazi officers.  

Posted inCommentary, Highlight, History, Nonfiction

The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write

by Sari Botton November 9, 2018October 19, 2022

Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

by Longreads October 10, 2018October 19, 2022

One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”

Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Quotes

You Can’t ‘Never Forget’ the Holocaust if You Haven’t Learned About It

by Sari Botton April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

A new study shows that knowledge about the Holocaust is dangerously at an all-time low.

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