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Detained Without Trial: a History of Concentration Camps

Why the rhetoric being used about the detention centers along the border should alarm us.

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Jamelle Bouie talks to Andrea Pitzer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. The two provide context to a conversation being had today about whether the detention centers on the border merit comparison to concentration camps. Plus, what justifications have been used in the past to keep civilians detained without trial? What can history tell us about this moment?

Also, John Di Domenico returns with a new set of tweets.

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A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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  • Jamelle Bouie is a New York Times opinion columnist. He was formerly Slate’s chief political correspondent.