A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate?

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse ...
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False echoes of Weimar

Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the ...