Let us now bow our heads, for whatever reason — piety, or fear of flying objects — and ask ourselves, and each other: How did ...

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Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to make sense of the news. Episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Emma’s Must-Sees See TV Programming Manager Emma ...

Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope By Richard J Evans The Dutch writer Ian Buruma, now in his mid-seventies, is the ...

World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people navigating between these two moral poles that seem to interest Ian Buruma the ...

Berlin is the subject of unusual historic interest. During the Weimar Republic period between the two world wars, it was a place of cultural daring, social experimentation, artistic ferment and ...

In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently, of “A Force So Swift: Mao, ...

My grandmother’s childhood in Weimar Germany was, at least as she described it, idyllic. She grew up in Grunewald, a leafy section of Berlin, swimming and boating in the district’s many lovely lakes.