The Allies nearly skipped the trial completely. Early in 1945, Churchill and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau favored summary execution of the top Nazis. Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued that a court would do what a firing squad could not: build a record. President Truman appointed Robert Jackson, a sitting Supreme Court justice, as chief […]
Month: September 2026
There is a population growing in this country that the country has not found a good name for, because the country does not want to look at it directly. These are not radicals. They do not burn anything. They pay their taxes, help a friend move a couch, look for moments of joy. What they […]
Donald Trump is the lowest of the low. On September 8, 2026, five days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump stood at a White House ceremony hosted by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and accepted a piece of an American flag holding steel recovered from the World Trade Center’s South […]