Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank
A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.
The Polish government’s ongoing war on historians documenting Poles’ complicity in massacres has led to a politically motivated distortion of the past.
Historically, both countries formed their national identities in defiance of Russian imperialism, and together they can defeat it today.
The Italian prime minister is proudly defending her party’s extremist predecessor by falsely claiming they were never fascists.
On Russia and Ukraine, Germans remain wedded to historical and geopolitical delusions.
Accepting—or rejecting—historical guilt for past evils doesn’t absolve nations of present-day responsibility.
“Paper City” explores the forgotten firebombing of Japan’s capital.
By comparing the foibe killings with Nazi genocide, the Italian right is whitewashing the country’s past.
In “Geniuses at War,” David A. Price convincingly recounts a heroic and tragic tale.
Putin is pushing Russian revisionist history to bolster the Kremlin’s influence abroad and its legitimacy at home.
The left is relativizing the past, the far-right is insisting on its uniqueness, and the country’s historical culture is cracking from within.
After the wreckage of World War II, a new form of global community had huge momentum—but the United States rejected it.
Seventy-five years after Japan surrendered in World War II and scrapped its armed forces, the Trump administration is redoubling efforts to get Tokyo to be more aggressive in countering China.
For decades, U.S. foreign policy has been badly distorted by the way that World War II ended.
By treating Iraqi territory as a neutral zone, Washington and Tehran can avoid conflict.
The Russian president’s amateur history lessons are outraging neighboring countries. While he is right to criticize a recent EU Parliament resolution, his historical revisionism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Breaking up monopolies was the first step in fighting Hitler.
In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia.
Chaos worsens in Sudan, Theresa May exits No. 10 Downing St., and the United States marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The last survivors of the Normandy invasion—and history's worst war—are almost gone. How long will the international system they helped create survive them?
Seventy-five years after D-Day, the United States should remember that on-the-ground leadership still works.