Timothy Snyder

5 days ago | snyder.substack.com | Timothy Snyder

Thirty years ago today, I was driving a moving van across the country, from the west coast to the east. The hold was packed well; the ride was wobbly, and I kept the heavy vehicle between the lines, mile after mile. Driving carefully, I was surprised to be stopped by state troopers. When I rolled down the window to face some polite questioning, I didn’t know that Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 684 more.

1 week ago | rsn.org | Timothy Snyder

By 1934, with all of the Nazis’ enemies defeated or intimidated, concentration had lost its original purpose. But Himmler was ready with a new rationale: The camps could serve as a tool to improve the German race. 'In popular memory,’ writes Nikolaus Wachsmann, “the concentration camps, Auschwitz, and the Holocaust have merged into one.” In our confusion, we have narrowed the horror of Nazi practice. Auschwitz was both a concentration camp and a killing site for Jews, which was unusual.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Timothy Snyder

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1 month ago | wweek.com | Lidia Yuknavitch |Javier Zamora |Timothy Snyder |Karen Russell

This month, we took a look at the top sellers from Powell’s Books, Literary Arts, Broadway Books and Annie Bloom’s Books to see what the city’s reading, and tallied up which books appear the most. Here are the city’s top reads for March. 1. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad2. Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch3. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder5.

1 month ago | markets.financialcontent.com | Timothy Snyder

By Timothy S. Snyder, Matador EconomicsStill a lot of push and pull in the markets, as  tensions heat up again in the Middle East along with a looming price war. Excessive tariffs can set the stage for a protracted price war, which nobody wants to occur. The problem in the U.S., however, is the nearly $37 trillion debt. The interest alone is crippling. By increasing tariffs, the U.S. is trying to balance trade while working to have the U.S. government work within its means.