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Topic: World War II

President Donald Trump speaks at the NATO summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump the "destroyer" endangers Europe

Brian Karem
A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail. After spending the day finding buried explosives, A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Phu Vong, Attapeu, Laos. (Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The war beneath our feet

Danae Hendrickson
A Palestinian youth inspects the rubble from the destroyed house of the Qrayqea family in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City on March 18, 2025 following Israeli strikes at dawn. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

From Guernica to Gaza

Norman Solomon - TomDispatch.com
People lay flowers at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial after a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 2025. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images))

Hiroshima remains an ongoing nightmare

Eric Ross - TomDispatch.com
A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Children die, and the world does nothing

Henry A. Giroux
Senator Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975, left) and Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) pledge allegiance to the American flag at an America First Committee (AFC) rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 23rd May 1941. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Are we whitewashing actual Nazis now?

Mike Lofgren
Donald Trump | The NATO flag | American troops walking in the water leaving a landing barge during the Normandy D-Day landings, France, 6th June 1944. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

80 years after D-Day, MAGA strikes NATO

Heather Digby Parton
All Creatures Great and Small (PBS)

All Creatures: "War starts to rumble on"

Hanh Nguyen
Phrase on gun mount protective shield probably accurately expresses thoughts of GI tank crew member as elements of US armored units move back into combat base, Sept. 30th, 1971, recently turned over to Vietnamese forces. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Last global superpower: Nearing the end?

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
All Creatures Great and Small (Playground Entertainment/Masterpiece PBS)

"All Creatures" finds life in wartime

Melanie McFarland
Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Mike Lofgren
Jonah Hauer-King as Harry in "World on Fire" (Mammoth Screen/Masterpiece)

PBS' WWII drama returns with more terror

Ani Bundel
Niels Bohr (1885-1862), Danish physicist. Noble Prize winner, 1922, seated at his desk (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Oppenheimer's hero was also problematic

Matthew Rozsa
WW2 army portrait of Merrill Stern (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of the Rozsa Family/Getty Images)

My WW2 veteran uncle's last words to me

Matthew Rozsa
Anna Madeley (plays Mrs Hall) and Will Thorp (plays Gerald Hammond) in "All Creatures Great and Small" (Courtesy of Playground Entertainment / MASTERPIECE)

"All Creatures" boss on wartime comforts

Hanh Nguyen
A Radiant Girl (Film Movement)

"A Radiant Girl" meets the Holocaust

Gary M. Kramer
KFC Christmas meal boxes are pictured on December 23, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)

How KFC became Japan's go-to Xmas dinner

Joy Saha
Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings, March 10, 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

War crimes? We must not forget Tokyo

James M. Scott
Russian President Vladimir Putin | Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht on the way to the front in Toropets, Russia, in 1943. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin's "Hitler moment"

Lucian K. Truscott IV
People walk past a severely damaged residential building by the Russian air raids in Borodyanka , Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast, on 7 April 2022. (Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images))

Ukraine and the psychology of genocide

Ronald H. Davidson
Members of the first class of Black pilots in the history of the U.S. Army Air Corps graduate as second lieutenants in Tuskegee, Alabama in March 1942 (Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

10 facts about the Tuskegee Airmen

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
The funeral of victims of a Nazi bombing in London during WW2 | Funeral workers bury the coffins of Covid-19 victims at a cemetery on July 19, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Life expectancy drop not just from COVID

Matthew Rozsa
A painting for the US Army "Stars and Stripes" newspaper shows a downed US Army Air Force pilot fighting off sharks with a knife in 1944 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean (Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images)

How WWII spawned our shark obsession

Janet M. Davis - The Conversation

Why we call hit movies "blockbusters"

Michele Debczak - Mental Floss
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