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

Henry Kissinger and the genocide in Bangladesh: Low point in a career of evil

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1st March 1968: American soldiers and Vietnamese refugees returning to the town of Hue, in Vietnam. (Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images)

How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of “alternative facts”

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Kham Thien street in central Hanoi which was turned to rubble by an American bombing raid on December 27, 1972. (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The “Christmas bombing” of 1972 — and why that misremembered Vietnam War moment matters

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Former US President Donald Trump and Former Alabama Governor George Wallace (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How I learned the power of lies: Fact and falsehood in the age of Trump (and long before)

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Silhouettes of seven fighter planes with exhaust trailing behind (Getty Images)

Moral injury and America’s endless conflicts

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Activists, including childcare providers, parents and their children, protest against the Trump administrations recent family detention and separation policies for migrants along the southern border, near the New York offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), July 18, 2018 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MACA: President Trump is making America crueler again

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German immigrants are questioned by immigration officers aboard the liner Saturnia on arrival in New York City. They were ordered to Ellis Island for further questioning under the 1950 Security Act. (AP/John Lindsay)

Looking back at 1919: immigration, race, and women’s rights, then and now

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Children and workers are seen at the Tornillo tent camp which houses immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

A cruel war on immigrants

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Making America’s wars great again

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Learning the power of lies

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A protester outside the Islamic Community Center on May 29, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Getty/Christian Petersen)

American Islamophobia’s fake facts

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Security officials investigate the aftermath of a fire at the Victoria Islamic Center mosque in Victoria, Texas (Reuters/Mohammad Khursheed)

Giving a pass to anti-Muslim bigotry

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept 11, 2007 file picture, plumes of fire and smoke fill the sky after a suicide car bomb explosion which hit fuel tanker trucks on the main highway of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq, File) (AP)

Why can’t the world’s best military win its wars?

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Using fake facts to make us afraid

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