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What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (1070+ words) For the past month or so, I've been writing about the abysmal conditions in ICE detention centers. Last week, I argued that you could use the term "concentration camp" to describe the system the Trump administration is using to seize…...
The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II. Here’s where the plane is now.
8+ hour, 1+ min ago (746+ words) The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's flagship location on the National Mall in…...
Trump Goons Order Rangers Not to Call KKK Killer ‘Racist’
2+ week, 2+ day ago (514+ words) President Donald Trump's administration won't allow a Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering a civil rights leader to be labeled a racist. To kick off Black History Month, the Trump administration has directed the National Park Service to scrub…...
Should Nazi Sympathizers Be Honored on City Sidewalks?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1372+ words) Good morning. It's Thursday. Today we'll find out why some of the markers commemorating ticker tape parades have been removed. We'll also get details on fallout from the release of the Epstein files. More than a dozen of the 200 markers…...
I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1821+ words) The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with French forces off the coast of Casablanca, Morocco,…...
A Man Turned Up at Hospital With a Live WWI Artillery Shell in His Butt
2+ week, 5+ day ago (498+ words) On Saturday night, in a relatively quiet area of Toulouse in southwest France, a 24-year-old man was rushed to hospital. He had an eight-inch-long WWI artillery shell crammed into his rectum. The shell was live. Rangueil Hospital was evacuated, with…...
The World Used to End Wars. Why Did We Stop?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (203+ words) This move is best understood, though, not as a sudden break between the United States and the U.N., but as an accelerant. It is the latest chapter in a much longer history of America's estrangement from its own creation, made possible…...
Why I Honor My Hero Vet Dad With Truth About His Nurse Alex Pretti
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1123+ words) When he was close to death in late 2024, former Air Force Sergeant Terrance Lee Randolph had a last moment individually with his wife and five children at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center. "He had been silently preparing a statement…...
Japanese American soldiers once branded ‘enemy aliens’ to be promoted posthumously
3+ week, 4+ day ago (703+ words) HONOLULU'Seven Japanese American soldiers will be promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded "enemy aliens." The seven were students at the University…...
Holocaust Museum Slams Tim Walz for Comparing Minnesota ICE Shootings to Anne Frank: ‘Deeply Offensive’
3+ week, 4+ day ago (311+ words) The U.S. Holocaust Museum went after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after his comments comparing what is happening in Minneapolis to Anne Frank being captured and placed in a concentration camp. On Monday, the museum took to its social media accounts and…...