The Hatred That Broke American Politics
Race is the wound America sees. Anti-Semitism is the one it doesn’t.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group / Getty; Shay Horse / NurPhoto / Getty. Charlottesville Was Only a Preview
We have never had the national reckoning that we need over the events of August 2017.
Stephanie Keith / Reuters A Poem That Shows How to Remember the Holocaust
Raphael Lemkin offered a reminder that genocides destroy more than lives.
PICTURE ALLIANCE / BETTMANN / GETTY / CEDRIC VON NIEDERHAUSERN / THE ATLANTIC The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’
The concept was always an unstable foundation on which to build a common American identity.
The Atlantic An Abandoned Weapon in the Fight Against Hate Speech
A 1952 Supreme Court ruling gave civil-rights groups a way to combat anti-Semitism and other prejudices—but in the years since, it’s largely gone unused.
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