Iran’s Latin American Resurgence
Riding the pink wave.
August 2, 2022
How the Stasi and KGB Fostered Germany’s Neo-Nazi Movement
A mission in which a young Vladimir Putin was involved.
Born in the East German city of Dresden in 1955, Rainer Sonntag spent most of his early adulthood in and out of prison until, in 1986, he received permission to leave for West Germany. Two years later, he entered the inner circle of Michael Kühnen, the country’s leading neo-Nazi, and succeeded Kühnen after the latter’s death in April 1991—only to die in a violent confrontation a month later. Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams delve into Sonntag’s bizarre backstory, and the “dark secret” his comrades didn’t know when he joined their organization:
August 2, 2022
How the Stasi and KGB Fostered Germany’s Neo-Nazi Movement
A mission in which a young Vladimir Putin was involved.
An Anti-Semitic UN Commissioner Admits to Lobbying Congress and Otherwise Exceeding His Mandate
The U.S. can take concrete steps in response.
How Jews Made the Art World Modern
“What would have become of us,” asked Picasso,“if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?”
During the First Crusade, Jews Did Not Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter
The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.