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Letters from an American – January 9, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 9, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 09, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore…
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Letters from an American – December 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, December 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 06, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship. In the…
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Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of ‘The Matrix’ – Entertainment Weekly
The Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski calls out right-wing appropriation of film’s real message: ‘This is what fascism does’ The hit sci-fi movie’s famous “red pill” scene has taken on new meaning on the far right. By Ryan Coleman, December 1, 2025 8:46 p.m. ET Lilly Wachowski has had it with misreadings and misinterpretations of The…
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Literary Hub – How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025
How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025 What We Can All Learn From the Courage of Charter 77 By Jonny Diamond, October 10, 2025 The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both…
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Off Message
Trump Has A Fight On His Hands His window to sleepwalk America into fascism has closed. Brian Beutler, Feb 24, 2025 (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images) If I’d had to sketch out a nightmare scenario for Donald Trump’s second term, before he took office, it would have borne some resemblance to what’s transpired since inauguration…
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Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us
Home Film ColumnsFeb 22, 2025 11:40am PT Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us A couple of months ago, I had a movie experience that truly shook me up. It was early December, and I was in the middle of my end-of-the-year marathon, catching up with the big prestigious awards-season films I’d…
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Peaceful protest in downtown San Diego focuses on Donald Trump, Elon Musk
‘It’s terrifying, the direction we’re heading in’ San Diegans protest against Musk, Trump San Diegans marched Sunday in support of many causes and in a joint protest against one: what they see as the rising tide of fascism in the federal government. By Roxana Popescu | roxana.popescu@sduniontribune.com | The San Diego Union-Tribune and Blake Nelson…
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There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming – The Atlantic
By David Frum, July 13, 2021 About the author: David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy(2020). In 2001 and 2002, he was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. “I became worse.” That’s how double impeachment changed him, Donald Trump told a conservative audience in…
