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Hande Gençünal

Aug 25, 2026, 3:06 AM

Two Voices One State: Ireland 1937–1945

How a country remembers a period is often less simple than what actually happened during it. Thinking about Ireland's years in the Second World War, we first look for a single story, either heroism or guilt. But what historians...

Aug 18, 2026, 9:00 PM

Us vs Them, Part II

When Belonging Becomes a Boundary: How do group boundaries become social and political institutions? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

When Belonging Becomes a Boundary In Part I, we examined the psychological origins of “us” and “them.” We saw how easily people form groups, how arbitrary an initial boundary can be, and how differences can acquire meaning after that boundary...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 18, 2026, 11:25 AM

Inside the World’s Largest Undeclared Military Zone: 79 Years Without Freedom

A Chakma woman carries the beauty and burden of the Chittagong Hill Tracts—an Indigenous homeland transformed by decades of militarization, displacement and unfulfilled peace. (AI-generated illustration created by the author for editorial use.)

There was a time when the hills belonged to their people. Indigenous families cultivated jhum without wondering whether their fields would still be theirs after the next harvest. Men, women and children caught fish together in the streams, gathered...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 18, 2026, 12:35 AM

The Nordic Rift: How Scandinavia Estranged Israel

The Postwar Consensus and Shared Idealism In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the nations of the Nordic world viewed the nascent State of Israel not with suspicion, but with a profound and genuine affinity. This was a...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 13, 2026, 4:58 AM

Fleeing the Terror: The Story of Ariella Pardo Segre

São Paulo – In 1943, as Nazi persecution intensified in Italy, the Pardo family risked everything to survive. Guided by a smuggler and sheer courage, they crossed the Alps on foot toward Switzerland. Among them was Ariella Pardo Segre,...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 3, 2026, 7:06 AM

The Horror Experienced by Miklos Kahan: From War to Reconstruction in Brazil

Between Horror and Reconstruction: The Journey of Miklos Kahan In an interview conducted by Sarita Mucinic Sarue, with the presence of Pricila Kahan Heliszkow (Daughter), Holocaust survivor Miklos Kahan revealed not only his own story but also that of his...

Jul 30, 2026, 5:33 AM

Iran Is Emotionally Ready to Use a Nuclear Weapon

The nuclear age has held for eighty years on two emotions: the dread of one's own annihilation, and the horror of the innocent's. Tehran keeps showing it feels neither. For eighty years, the most important fact about nuclear weapons has...

Silas Anastacio

Jul 28, 2026, 4:23 AM

Presenter Otávio Mesquita visits Jewish Immigration and Holocaust Memorial

This July, television presenter Otávio Mesquita visited the Jewish Immigration and Holocaust Memorial, located in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of São Paulo. The site, housed in the state’s first synagogue — founded in 1912 — has become one of...

Jul 27, 2026, 6:20 PM

America has no alternative to decisive victory. Why that is and how to win

Dear readers, The following text builds on the ideas I expressed a few days ago, on July 18, in a text written here, and also on an article I wrote almost two years ago, entitled 'Why America Stopped Wining Wars.'...

Nina L. Kampler

Jul 23, 2026, 9:25 AM

I thought I knew my father’s story; then some untranslated letters came to light

Nina Kampler and Mark Kampler deliver Kampler Holocaust-era letters to Yad Vashem, June 17, 2026. (courtesy)

He was the only Jew to survive the entire war at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but he shouldn't have been there at all

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