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British statesman Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) painting a beach scene from the Surf Club in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

When a winner becomes a loser

Klaus W. Larres - The Conversation
Jonah Hauer-King in "World on Fire" (PBS)

PBS WWII drama "World on Fire" concludes

Hanh Nguyen
(L-R) Vietnam War veteran C. Patrick McCourt and retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Sidney Wade salute as they participate in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe at the National World War II Memorial on May 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

V-E Day plus 75

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Julia Brown in "World on Fire" (PBS)

PBS' World War II drama "World on Fire"

Hanh Nguyen
Jesse Eisenberg in "Resistance" (IFC Films)

The flawed beauty of new Nazi-era biopic

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/John Moore)

The paradox of America’s endless wars

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
Valerie Pachner and August Diehl (Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org)

When a farmer stood up to the Nazis

Andrew O'Hehir
Demonstrators raise their hands as they perform against police violence after several demonstrators were injured in their eyes with pellets, outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago on November 12, 2019. (Rodrigo Arangua/Afp Via Getty Images)

Rising up to resist neoliberalism

Nicholas Powers - Truthout
Members of Veterans for Peace and About Face: Veterans Against the War, march down Lincoln Street during the Denver Veterans Day Parade, hosted by the Colorado Veterans Project in downtown on November 11, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. The parade, comprised of local veterans organizations, lines Civic Center Park and nearby streets and is broken down into serials that represent a different conflict in military history. (Kathryn Scott/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The history of veterans’ peace advocacy

Michael Messner - The Conversation
A visitor peeks through slats in the inner wall into the "death zone" at a preserved portion of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse on October 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The Berlin Wall's fall, 30 years later

James Carroll - TomDispatch.com
Taika Waititi and Roman Griffin Davis in the film JOJO RABBIT. (Fox Searchlight/Kimberly French)

Joking about Nazis is trickier than ever

Mary Elizabeth Williams
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he meets with President of Romania Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House August 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Trump congratulates Poland as it mourns

Shira Tarlo
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Nazi-era public charge clause revived

Laurel Leff - The Conversation
Elijah Wood in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (New Line Cinema)

"Lord of the Rings": A trauma parable

Keith A. Spencer
Installation view, Keith Haring Bathroom, The Center, New York, NY (2019) (Jordan Eagles)

New work of art challenges gay blood ban

Joseph Neese
Greta Thunberg and Charles Norman Shay in Caen, France, on July 21. (Twitter)

An elder warrior meets a younger

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
President Harry S. Truman (AP)

Invisible agency & security intelligence

Robert Hutchings, Gregory F. Treverton - The Conversation
(Getty/Fabrice Coffrini)

D-Day speech at odds with Trump's past

Alex Henderson - Alternet
President Donald Trump poses ahead of a dinner at Winfield House for Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during their state visit on June 04, 2019 in London, England. (Getty/Peter Summers)

The Trump doctrine: A new imperialism

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty/hipokrat)

Is blood thicker than water?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Maria Butina (AP)

A brief history of "foreign agents"

Bradley W. Hart - The Conversation
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC (Getty/ Win McNamee)

Veterans have fought in and against wars

Michael Messner - The Conversation
FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2017, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump walk together to a news conference at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump claims to remember Pearl Harbor

Martin Cizmar - Raw Story
Fraklin Roosevelt signing the declaration of war on Dec. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

Why America won't declare war

Matthew Fay
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