World War II

Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk

Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk Visualizing the Four Freedoms: FDR’s Fighting Artist, Arthur Szyk

We all know about Norman Rockwell. But it was Szyk who best conveyed the life-or-death urgency of the struggle against fascism.

Jan 8, 2016 / Allison Claire Chang

Members of the antiwar group SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) rally outside Japan's parliament building, August 21, 2015.

Japan Is Scrapping Its Pacifist Constitution, Despite Massive Public Opposition Japan Is Scrapping Its Pacifist Constitution, Despite Massive Public Opposition

The US is pushing Japan to arm for war, but hundreds of thousands of students and mothers are lining the streets for peace.

Dec 16, 2015 / Lisa Torio

Interned Japanese American Sammy Kimura (Telly Leung) and camp nurse Hannah Campbell (Katie Rose Clarke) perform in Allegiance.

Pacific Overtures on Broadway Pacific Overtures on Broadway

At its best, the Japanese-internment musical "Allegiance" seethes with righteous anger beneath its perkiness and platitudes.

Dec 7, 2015 / Alisa Solomon

December 7, 1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

“This is really world war, and in my humble opinion it was unavoidable and is better fought now when we still have allies left.”

Dec 7, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi War Criminals Begin

November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi War Criminals Begin November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi War Criminals Begin

“One can’t help feeling that in a way the tribunal is trying the bulb and not the light, an empty cartridge and not the exploisive that fired.”

Nov 20, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

What the Class Politics of World War II Mean for Tensions in Asia Today

What the Class Politics of World War II Mean for Tensions in Asia Today What the Class Politics of World War II Mean for Tensions in Asia Today

In the Philippines, the grandson of a despised collaborator has endorsed the remilitarization of his country's former occupiers—by the grandson of a war criminal, no less.

Sep 22, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Walden Bello

September 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland, Beginning World War II

September 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland, Beginning World War II September 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland, Beginning World War II

“Democracy—even that 'pluto-democracy' derided by Hitler—must be defended against a despotism that would crush all attempts to make democracy real.”

Sep 1, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed in Massachusetts (1927); AND the Hitler-Stalin Pact Is Signed (1939)

August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed in Massachusetts (1927); AND the Hitler-Stalin Pact Is Signed (1939) August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed in Massachusetts (1927); AND the Hitler-Stalin Pact Is Signed (1939)

Is this the single darkest day on the calendar for the international left?

Aug 23, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner

Victory Day

Letter From Belgorod Letter From Belgorod

Seventy years of victory in Russia and Ukraine.

Aug 14, 2015 / Sophie Pinkham

Ukrainian nationalism

How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past

Volodymyr Viatrovych was the driving force behind new laws that restrict free speech and regulate how history is written.

Aug 13, 2015 / Jared McBride

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