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The Holocaust

Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream

March 13, 2026

Black-and-white photograph of a sign reading “Temple Israel” behind police caution tape

Tom Stoppard’s Secret—And Mine

January 25, 2026

A collage of the author's family photos, including a woman holding a newborn and a well-dressed couple.

MAGA’s Jewish Intellectuals Helped Create Their Own Predicament

January 15, 2026

A giant television screen displays Ben Shapiro talking at a conservative conference, as viewers watch in the foreground.

The Right Is Changing the Rules of the Culture War

Thomas Chatterton Williams

September 13, 2025

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The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler

September 3, 2025

Photo of Adolf Hitler watching the American flag being carried past him as a crowd does the Nazi salute

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong

July 8, 2025

The Dangers of Philo-Semitism

February 26, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

A True-Crime Reading List

January 19, 2025

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How Does a Real Person Become a Character?

January 17, 2025

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Trump Is Building the Most Anti-Semitic Cabinet in Decades

November 21, 2024

Donald Trump points to the left, with a red bar behind his hand, in this photo illustration.

The Strange History Behind the Anti-Semitic Dutch Soccer Attacks

November 8, 2024

Photo illustration of silhouettes of three men running with soccer balls, with fire running through them, over a flag of red, white and blue stripes

Finally, a Holocaust Movie With No Lessons

November 1, 2024

A film still in which a man on the right leads a tour group of five people to his left across a field with barbed wire in the background.

October 7 Created a Permission Structure for Anti-Semitism

October 7, 2024

A Star of David with a red 7 in it

Nice Little Jewish Community You Have Here

September 25, 2024

A Jewish Trump supporter is seen from behind sitting in a crowd

Dear Therapist: I Inherited Unwanted Family Secrets

July 29, 2024

A locked chest, with a family tree engraved on it, being opened—green smoke spills out

Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse?

A photograph of children looking at Nazi artifacts

What to Read on Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27, 2023

Visitors at the Birkenau Museum view the faces of the men, women and children at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

How Not to Talk About the Holocaust

September 21, 2022

Illustration showing circular black-and-white pictures of scenes from the Holocaust—a swastika, a woman looking hopeless, a man wearing a shtreimel and glasses

Russia Is Not the First to Blame Jews for Their Own Holocaust

May 5, 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin

The Other History of the Holocaust

April 4, 2022

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Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race

February 3, 2022

A black-and-white photo of Whoopi Goldberg on a red background, with black-and-white alternating lines covering parts of her face and body

Book Bans Are Targeting the History of Oppression

Marilisa Jiménez Garcia

February 2, 2022

A black and white image of four 'Maus' books on a shelf. The cover depicts two mice huddled together under a swastika that bears the image of a cat drawn to look like Hitler

Are Jews a Race?

February 1, 2022

Whoopi Goldberg

The Good News About the Holocaust (Education) in America

January 27, 2022

A dictionary opened to the word "Holocaust"

A Poem That Shows How to Remember the Holocaust

James Loeffler and Leora Bilsky

April 8, 2021

Why a Career and Technical High School Has a Genocide-Studies Class

September 9, 2020

Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise

January 27, 2020

Prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp

The Many Holocausts

January 26, 2020

A wall of pictures of former Auschwitz prisoners

Auschwitz Is Not a Metaphor

June 6, 2019

A boxcar used for the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz rests outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage.