Holocaust

At least those misguided Pokemon Goers were following the noble ideal of trying to be the very best, like no one ever was. Sadly, the same sort of boneheaded behavior occurs with increasing frequency at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. But unlike the Auschwitz…

The Des Moine Register is facing criminal threats and has had to heighten security following conservative backlash to a story they published this week that surfaced racist tweets college football fan Carson King wrote when he was 16 years old. The now-24-y…

(PARIS) — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86. His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux told The Assoc…

A new crop of symbols has emerged in Hong Kongs protests in recent weeks: swastikas and the term Chinazi. At a demonstration earlier this month, when protesters marched to the US consulate to urge Congress to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act…

White Bird, an original graphic novel by best-selling author R.J. Palacio, released October 1, 2019. Courtesy Alfred K. Knopf Theres never a bad time to inspire young people with stories about the power of kindness in the face of cruelty, but some historica…

If you violate Facebook’s rules, Facebook can force you to remove the offending content, or temporarily ban you, or permanently ban you. If a politician violates those same rules, Facebook now officially won’t do squat.  In a speech at the Atlantic Festival…

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so.…

For 75 years, Morris Sana lived with the belief that his cousin and best friend Simon Mairowitz was dead. But on Saturday, 87-year-old Sana and 85-year-old Mairowitz cried tears of joy when they reunited in Israel. The cousins were close pals before the Nazi…

THE WORLD THAT WE KNEWBy Alice Hoffman Arguably, every single historical novel should evoke those two much-quoted lines of William Faulkners: The past is never dead. Its not even past. But coming away from Alice Hoffmans gravely beautiful new novel, The Worl…

To the Editor: Thank you for sharing the essay Goodness (Sept. 8) by the late and inspiringly great Toni Morrison. We do not know whether Morrison intended her insights to be applied to the current political landscape. However, the inference is that unless v…