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Topic: Harry Truman

Harry Truman, Israeli flag and the Holocaust Jude star patch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Harry Truman, antisemitism and Israel

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" is the author of "Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization." (Getty Images/HarperCollins Publishers)

Joe Scarborough: Trump's no Harry Truman

Dean Obeidallah
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The same old red-baiting scare tactic

Robert Reich
Howard Schultz (Getty/Joshua Lott)

Howard Schultz: Enemy of democracy?

Carl Pope
(Getty/Drew Angerer/Salon)

Ivy League prof diagnoses Trump's tweets

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Harry S. Truman; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; George W. Bush; Donald Trump (AP/Getty)

Trump: End of a long process

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump; Harry Truman (AP/Mark Humphrey/Salon)

Trump's ban, Truman's progress

Jonathan Zimmerman
FILE - In this April 25, 1945, file photo, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, talks in front of microphones, over which he broadcasts a message opening the conference of 46 United Nations in San Francisco, telling the delegates "you are to be architects of a better world. In your hands rests our future," in the White House in Washington, D.C. Seventy years ago leaders of 50 war-weary countries gathered in San Francisco to create an international order that would save future generations “from the scourge of war.” With that, the United Nations was created. (AP Photo/File) (AP)

Beware: Ghosts are everywhere

Michael Winship
FILE - In this April 25, 1945, file photo, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, talks in front of microphones, over which he broadcasts a message opening the conference of 46 United Nations in San Francisco, telling the delegates "you are to be architects of a better world. In your hands rests our future," in the White House in Washington, D.C. Seventy years ago leaders of 50 war-weary countries gathered in San Francisco to create an international order that would save future generations “from the scourge of war.” With that, the United Nations was created. (AP Photo/File) (AP)

beware, trump, of ghosts

Michael Winship - BillMoyers.com
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to tighten the rules for technology companies seeking to bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S., before signing, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) (AP)

Neal Gabler
Paul Ryan, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell (AP/Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Jonathan Ernst/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump's illegal & insane plan

Simon Maloy
FILE - In this June 14, 2015 file photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, thousands of Syrian refugees walk in order to cross into Turkey. After a slow start, it appears increasingly likely that the Obama administration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States before the end of September. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) (AP)

tales of a WWII refugee

Milan J. Kubic - Narratively
A huge expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. (AP)

We didn't need to bomb Japan

Gar Alperovitz
Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Jim Young)

Bernie is no socialist

Stephan Richter - The Globalist
(AP/Reuters/John Locher/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

Thom Hartmann - Alternet
Ted Cruz, John Roberts (APJoe Skipper/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)

The GOP's perfect crime

Elias Isquith
Winston Churchill, Harry S.Truman, and Josef Stalin pose in Potsdam, Germany, July 23, 1945. (AP)

When the world was reinvented

J.P. O'Malley
Ronald Reagan (AP)

Conservatives' pockmarked past

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Jonah Hill (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Behind the celebrity apology

Elias Isquith