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Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery, May 25, 2026. (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Iran is “Trump’s Vietnam”

Heather Digby Parton
Swedish pop group ABBA has always been popular in Vietnam, with one song in particular holding particular poignancy (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Gus Stewart)

The ABBA song that's huge in Vietnam

Hanh Nguyen
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's Venezuela playbook is a retread

Betty Medsger - The Conversation
US President Richard Nixon (left) and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger talk together, Washington DC, November 25, 1972. (White House via CNP/Getty Images)

New Kissinger doc gilds the stinkweed

Ken Hughes
Displaced Palestinian children push into a queue to get a portion of cooked food from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 9, 2025. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

War is also an assault on public health

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Vietnam Veteran Jack Ellis (Courtesy of Netflix)

A brutal, honest view of the Vietnam War

Melanie McFarland
March on Washington | Black Live Matter Protest | Mass demonstration against the Vietnam war (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vietnam to Gaza: A collapse of morality

Norman Solomon
9/30/1965 - Tan Son Nhut, South Vietnam: A flight of four United States Air Force Ranch Hand C-123s spray a Viet Cong jungle position near here with a defoliating liquid. The four specially equipped aircraft cover a swath of more than 1,000 feet wide on each pass over the dense jungle. (Getty Images / Bettmann)

Vietnam still bears the scars of war

Pamela McElwee - The Conversation
A Vietnamese soldier stands next to a hazardous warning sign by a runway at Bien Hoa air base, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, as US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visits the former US air base on October 17, 2018. - The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War came under the spotlight again on October 17 when Mattis visits a former storage site for Agent Orange, which is blamed for birth defects and cancers among a million Vietnamese. (THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump halted toxic Agent Orange cleanup

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Brett Murphy, Le Van - ProPublica
This aerial picture shows the collapsed Phong Chau bridge over the Red River in Phu Tho province on September 9, 2024, after Super Typhoon Yagi hit northern Vietnam. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Typhoon Yagi kills 226 people

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We didn't listen to Cassandra — again

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Hoa Xuande and Alan Trong on "The Sympathizer" (Hopper Stone/HBO)

"This happened with Vietnam too"

Teresa Tran
Hoa Xuande in "The Sympathizer" (HBO)

Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy

Hanh Nguyen
A view of destruction after Israeli forces' withdrawal from Khan Yunis, Gaza on April 08, 2024. | Chile's Presidential Palace burns at the height of bombardment during the coup d'etat by the nation's armed forces, 1973 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Israel's kill lists have a long history

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs interacts with Marquez Valdes-Scantling #11 of the Kansas City Chiefs prior to the game Super Bowl LVIII against the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Dapping: An overlooked Black celebration

Rann Miller
Dominic Sessa, Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph in "The Holdovers" (Focus Features)

"The Holdovers" link to Michelangelo

Melanie McFarland
Lyndon B Johnson and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When a liberal president goes to war

Paul Rosenberg
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Disney/Randy Holmes)

Jimmy Kimmel roasts Powell guilty plea

Gabriella Ferrigine
Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong and President Joe Biden during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Sept. 11, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden, Vietnam and fake history

Norman Solomon
President Donald Trump meets with Dr. Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office at the White House, Oct. 10, 2017. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Kissinger at 100: Still a war criminal

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Margot Robbie as Barbie in “Barbie” (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

Philippines to ban "Barbie" movie, too?

Joy Saha
Scott Ly as Sinh and Rachael Leigh Cook as Amanda in "A Tourist's Guide to Love." (Sasidis Sasisakulporn/Netflix)

Netflix playlist jets you off to Vietnam

Lily Doton
Daniel Ellsberg (center) addresses the media in May 1973 and papers from the archive of Daniel Ellsberg, pictured at UMass Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Jonathan Wiggs / The Boston Globe/ Bettmann Archive)

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

Norman Solomon
2023, Year OF The Cat/Rabbit (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why there is and isn't a Year of the Cat

Joy Saha, Hanh Nguyen
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