Jonathan van Harmelen

I am a regular contributor to local and national news outlets along with online publications. Below is a selection of my work.

“The Democrats Taking The Fight To ICE.” The New Republic, November 25, 2025.

“Japanese American Resettlement in Washington After World War II.” HistoryLink, November 19, 2025.

“Civil Liberty threats under Trump echo Japanese American Internment.” The Sacramento Bee, November 9, 2025.

“The Future of Immigration in America – After Trump is Gone.” The New Republic, August 14, 2025.

“Biography: Monica Sone.” HistoryLink, June 26, 2025.

“How Trump’s Tariffs Promote Hate at Home.” The New Republic, June 12, 2025.

“Japanese American Incarceration: How It Happened Here.” Loyola Marymount University Magazine, May 30, 2025. Co-authored with Greg Robinson.

“A Secret Weapon To Fight Mass Deportations.” The New Republic, March 7, 2025.

“Long before César Chávez, a Sacramentan planted seeds of the farmworker labor movement.” The Sacramento Bee, February 26, 2025.

“One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant As Ever.” The Nation, December 18, 2024.

“From Hollywood High to The Sorrow and the Pity: What Marcel Ophuls Learned in America.” Cineaste, December 10, 2024.

“The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives – For Now.” The New Republic, December 03, 2024.

“The Little-Known Group That Pioneered Watergate’s Dirty Tricks—and Changed American Politics.” TIME, August 8, 2024.

“How Taxing Big Tech Could Help Local Journalism” The Sacramento Bee, July 27, 2024.

“Overlooked No More: Bill Hosokawa, Journalist Who Chronicled Japanese American History.” The New York Times, May 16, 2024. Co-authored with Greg Robinson.

“The ‘Nacirema’ Dream: The Story of an Asian American Studio.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 25, 2024.

“‘In Search of Hiroshi’ As Relevant Today As When First Published.” Baltimore Sun, April 7, 2024.

“California Apologies, Reparations Would Improve State’s Karma.” The Mercury News, March 16, 2024.

“Sacramento Should Honor American Biochemist Harvey Itano.” The Sacramento Bee, February 19, 2024.

“When the U.S. Successfully Tackled Homelessness.” TIME, November 2, 2023.

“Buried in the Sand: On John Sturges’s ‘Bad Day At Black Rock’ and Japanese America.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 27, 2023.

“Remembering Toyo Takata, Japanese Canadian Historian.” Victoria Times-Colonist, April 3, 2023.

“Japanese Who Moved To Chicago After Internment Found An Advocate In Sidney Yates.” Chicago Tribune, February 19, 2023.

“Ledgers at Arroyo Grande museum hold clues to a dark chapter in U.S. history.” San Luis Obispo Tribune, November 25, 2019.

“The Shadow of Korematsu.” Pomona College Magazine, September 5, 2018.

“Illustrating Prisoners in the Great War.” National Museum of American History, August 2, 2017.

“Ben Kuroki’s Blood Chit.” National Museum of American History, September 6, 2015.