A bit late, it would seem, to catch the wave of conservatism, conformity and consensus that hung over the American nation through much of the postwar era.

Source: https://www.buffalorising.com/2023/08/barbie-has-no-knees/

A growing shift in power to independent media and civil society that will shape the country’s postwar society.

Source: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/13/ukraine-oligarchs-monaco-battalion/

But EU leaders are hoping that the new planned expansion will redraw more than the continent’s postwar economic map.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2023/1005/With-wary-eye-on-Moscow-European-Union-opens-door-to-Ukraine?icid=rss

Forbidden Notebook is in part a documentation of postwar changes in women’s lives, observed with the meticulous detail of neorealism.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/25/resistance-fighter-novelist-and-sartres-favourite-agony-aunt-rediscovering-alba-cespedes

Jews are confronting a level of antisemitism not previously experienced in postwar Australia and, within progressive circles and institutions and even among some Jews, a wholesale revision of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/how-the-israel-gaza-war-is-tearing-melbourne-apart-20231212-p5er1s.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

Kenzaburo Oe, 88. The Nobel literature laureate whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son.

Source: https://abc13.com/who-died-in-2023-celebrities-famous-people-celebrity-deaths/14167785/

Moravia writes about Rome in a very different moment historically — in postwar (World War II) Italy.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/jhumpa-lahiri-identity-take-granted-well-lit-house-book-interview-9080217/

More South Korean senior citizens are dying than ever before, with the postwar baby boom generation now reaching the seventies.

Source: https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/korea-plunging-birthrate-alarms-government

Moving between erotic vignettes, poignant snapshots of nature and politically piquant peeks into life in postwar Japan, this exhibition proves there is so much more to Moriyama than fishnet stockings and street scenes.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/24/the-best-photography-shows-of-2023

Palestinian officials have said they will consider a postwar role in Gaza only in the context of concrete US-backed steps toward statehood.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/israeli-army-says-it-mistakenly-shot-and-killed-three-hostages-20231216-p5erwi.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

S. alliance at a summit in Washington, as Japan breaks from its postwar restraint to take on more offensive roles with an eye toward China.

Source: https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/asia/2913210/kishida-highlights-security-concerns-on-trip-to-europe-us.html

Taken together, these stories of transgression form a scathing commentary on postwar European moral rot and the meaning of rebellion in the face of a corrupt world.

Source: https://collider.com/criterion-releases-june-2023-time-bandits/

The decline of 25th Street’s notorious reputation came in the mid-1950s, with postwar families taking advantage of the interstate highway system, leaving behind the railroads and driving their cars everywhere.

Source: https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2023/06/18/main-streets-utah-how-ogdens-25th/

The first was during the 1980s, when Thatcherism ensured the greatest rise in inequality in the postwar period.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/26/from-cradle-grave-something-rotten-state-welfare

The postwar decades saw a huge expansion of U.S. political and military power.

Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2023/05/01/introduction-to-the-new-edition-of-the-hidden-history-of-the-korean-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-the-new-edition-of-the-hidden-history-of-the-korean-war

The postwar inter-American system paid off for the United States most dramatically when the OAS backed the United States against Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, arguably the greatest-ever national security threat to the United States.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/26/the-united-states-has-never-recovered-from-the-falklands-war/

These assets could play a critical role in getting Russia to comply with Ukraine’s efforts at postwar justice, for example.

Source: https://www.lawfareblog.com/cautionary-tale-what-iran-and-cuba-can-teach-us-about-designating-russia-state-sponsor-terrorism

This is a bit like demanding America have a plan for postwar Japan weeks after Pearl Harbor.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/19/opinion/no-go-joe-putting-the-un-in-charge-of-gaza-would-be-a-sick-joke/

Though mindful that the fighting is far from over, the mayor is working with the acclaimed architect Norman Foster on a postwar development plan.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/world/europe/ukraine-kharkiv-russia.html

When British actor Faye Marsay landed the role of a postwar “Ten Pound Pom” who resettles in Australia after being promised endless sunshine and new opportunities, she had the stock-standard trepidations ahead of her touchdown in Sydney.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/from-game-of-thrones-to-playing-a-ten-pound-pom-faye-marsay-is-a-star-on-the-rise-20230411-p5czln.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_culture