Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...

Illustration by Gluekit for TIME; Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Moreshet Collection; National Hannie Schaft Foundation; Alamy(2) Historians who hail the heroes of World War II typically focus on soldiers ...

For all the fanfare about a new golden age brought gloriously to life by computers, digital technology and artificial intelligence, skeptics — or are they realists? — prefer to warn us about a ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- War can turn strangers into brothers. It's true if they're fighting it, and it's true if they're resisting it, as Vietnam War resisters resettled in this Canadian province know. In ...

When Russia occupied the Ukrainian city of Kherson last year, local civilians organized a resistance. More than a year after Ukraine liberated the city, its citizens are still fighting. Moscow had ...

The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian ...

Cleaning up the cultural and civic debris left by Donald Trump and his right-wing helpers will require concerted effort. The “resistance” is determined to do that, but to succeed, its members must ...