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Dozens of immigrants from 18 nations take the oath to become U.S. citizens on Jan. 27, 2025, in Topeka, Kan. AP Photo/John Hanna

Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback

Denaturalization risks becoming a tool of political control, creating a permanent vulnerability for more than 20 million naturalized Americans.
Greenland’s cryolite mine, essential for U.S. airplane production, was below sea level and vulnerable to Nazi sabotage. Reginald Wilcox, ca. 1941. Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College

In World War II’s dog‑eat‑dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order

Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.
Fritz Kuhn, center, is congratulated by fellow officers of the German American Bund in New York on Sept. 3, 1938. AP Photo

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history

Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation on Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. Associated Press

Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for a cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on June 11, 2025. Merz recently stirred controversy by blaming migrants for antisemitism in Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The politics of blame: Accusing immigrants won’t solve Germany’s antisemitism problem

Framing antisemitism primarily as an imported problem risks strengthening forces that actively seek to undermine and ignore Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past.
Law enforcement officials dress in protective gear to investigate after an attack on a march in Boulder, Colo., on June 1, 2025, calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Reducing American antisemitism requires more than condemning opposition to Israel and targeting elite universities

The Trump administration’s crusade against antisemitism looks to be mainly about crippling elite universities and blurring the lines between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.

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