reparations

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Appeared in the December 18, 2025, print edition as 'A Reparations Loan for Ukraine?'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Reparations are measures to make amends for past actions deemed wrong or unfair, and can range from the financial to symbolic.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

A Reparations Effort: More than 50 years ago, the Black and Latino families of a Palm Springs neighborhood were evicted and their homes destroyed.

From New York Times • May 23, 2024

Reparations advocates have been divided on the best success strategy after years of deliberation as they aim to create a first-in-the-nation plan to offer tangible benefits to descendants of the enslaved.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

It did not appoint a member of the Reparations Commission—the Senate's reservation to Mr. Hughes's treaty keeping that question in the control of Congress.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)