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Alabama-Arizona immigration laws recall 1935 Germany

January 26, 2012 By Jean Damu

Is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach - he who roams the nation promoting vicious anti-immigration laws and ordinances - a latter-day Julius Streicher?

Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”

January 24, 2012 By Joseph Zimmermann

There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.

Hungary’s government lurches further to the right

January 9, 2012 By Emile Schepers

Hungarian right-wing nationalism has its roots in the period between the two world wars.

New film from China on the horrors of the “Rape of Nanking”

January 3, 2012 By Brad Janzen

What the Japanese militarists did to China is a story that every Chinese person knows well, but, I think, not so much in the West.

Wells Fargo sponsors anarchist’s art show: “Pissarro’s People”

January 3, 2012 By Nadya Williams

A powerful exhibit of the politically inspired paintings by 19th century anarchist artist Camille Pissarro delivers a clear message of inspiration and solidarity to today's Occupy movement.