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Archives for April 2025

My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now — is this their story?

Confronting Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film five decades later.

Cathy Linh Che
How the Napalm Girl continues to define free speech

How the Vietnam War’s most horrific photograph became a benchmark for content moderation on social media platforms.

Som-Mai Nguyen
Imagining the scale of the Vietnam War

Can the impact of a conflict be measured? Can we reckon with what’s quantifiable?

Kevin Nguyen
Wandering Souls

A US military psy-op tried to scare Viet Cong soldiers with tape recordings of Vietnamese “ghosts.”

Matt Huynh
American War

A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.

Verge Staff
The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.

Camille Bromley
The rise of the infinite fringe

It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.

Tina Nguyen