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Harvard Political Review

American student magazine

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Nov 18, 2025
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how do Trumps policies compare to hitler

Comparisons between Donald Trump’s policies and Adolf Hitler’s regime appear frequently in opinion pieces and commentary, but reporting and historians cited in the available sources emphasize both par...

Jan 19, 2026
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Is trumps actions similar to Hitler prior to world War 2

Comparisons between Donald Trump’s actions and Adolf Hitler’s rise before World War II surface repeatedly in recent commentary and scholarship, with analysts pointing to overlapping tactics—nationalis...

Dec 5, 2025
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Obama commit war crime

Allegations that Barack Obama “committed war crimes” focus chiefly on his expansion of drone strikes, “double-tap” tactics, and U.S. support for partner operations (reports cite roughly 563 strikes wi...

Nov 15, 2025

Reality has a liberal bias

Claims that “reality has a liberal bias” map onto a long-running debate about whether news media tilt left. Empirical work finds many journalists identify as liberal yet detects little or no systemati...

Jan 31, 2026

How did Alan Dershowitz respond to accusations across different years and in which media outlets?

has consistently and forcefully denied multiple personal accusations over many years, framing them as false, politically motivated, or the product of mistaken identity while simultaneously pursuing le...

Dec 21, 2025

Drone strikes under obama

Barack Obama oversaw a dramatic expansion of U.S. covert air strikes, authorizing well over 500 strikes in his two terms by most independent tallies and far more than under George W. Bush, a shift tha...

Nov 29, 2025

Which US presidents have been compared to Hitler by their critics?

Multiple sources show that critics and commentators have frequently compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in recent years — across academic articles, opinion pieces, and international commentary (exam...

Jan 11, 2026

Which Obama administration policies have been labeled war crimes and by whom?

Critics—including human rights NGOs, opinion writers and some academics—have labeled several Obama-era policies as potential war crimes, most prominently the expanded drone strike program, U.S. suppor...

Jan 11, 2026

What was Obamas nickname for wars

There is no reliable evidence in the provided reporting that Barack Obama himself coined a distinctive nickname for wars; instead, the phrase "Obama’s wars" has been used by journalists, critics and c...

Jan 10, 2026

Were any Trump-era immigration policies modeled on or inspired by Nazi-era policies?

The record shows vigorous and repeated comparisons between Trump-era immigration policies and Nazi-era practices—especially from commentators, advocacy outlets and some scholars who point to shared fe...

Dec 12, 2025

How have media outlets handled rumors or allegations about politicians' private bodies in the past?

Media coverage of private-body rumors about politicians has varied: some outlets amplify unverified claims, while others debunk or avoid them; fact-checkers and archives like Snopes often step in to c...

Dec 10, 2025

Was obamas bombings justified

Barack Obama’s presidency oversaw a large increase in U.S. air warfare — reports cite roughly 26,000 bombs dropped in 2016 across seven countries (Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and P...

Nov 18, 2025

Thump vs Hitler

Debates about “Trump vs. Hitler” are prominent in 2025 discourse: some historians and public figures draw specific parallels in rhetoric, tactics and mobilization of followers (e.g., similarities note...