Roundup

How Fake News Could Lead to Real War

by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.

Why We Need More Black Women In Economics

by Keri Leigh Merritt

Recently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.”

Democrats’ Ominous Shift on School Segregation

by Brett Gadsden

It’s not just Joe Biden—the party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.

The Riptide of American Militarism

by William Astore

As Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940?

The Fourth of July Has Always Been Political

by David Waldstreicher

The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.

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This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America

by Sarah E. Bond

It is disturbing to see how gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate news stories today, particularly those that draw parallels between Rome and the United States.

The Surprising History of Nationalist Internationalism

by David Motadel

Internationalism, a concept that, after all, implicitly presumes the existence of the nation, and extreme nationalism are not necessarily incompatible. The far right is less parochial than we think — and that’s dangerous.

Why Democrats are wrong about Trump’s politicization of the Fourth of July

by Shira Lurie

He’s not doing anything that hasn’t been done for centuries.

How the Declaration of Independence became a beacon to the world

by Charles Edel

The Declaration’s international reach.

Reflecting On The Civil Rights Act’s Anniversary With James Baldwin

by Lindsey R. Swindall

Much like the time in which Baldwin wrote, we are living through a period of deep political division and social crisis framed by global discord.

An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

by Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a statement on June 24 condemning the use of Holocaust analogies. 

The Lingering of Loss

by Jill Lepore

My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.

How Lincoln's disdain for demagogues pricks Trump's Fourth of July pomposity

by Sidney Blumenthal

If nothing else, the president’s speech on the Mall on Thursday will show how far we have fallen since Lincoln.

The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

by Eric Foner

Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

Can assembling immigrant stories bring change?

by David A. Taylor

Each story’s path to citizenship shows “the human cost of our immigration system and what that feels like.”

Video of the Week: What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Now 99 years old, he's the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

by Tony Fels

On April 20, 1969, an era of student rebellions that had rocked American campuses at Berkeley, Columbia, San Francisco State, and Harvard reached a culmination of sorts at Cornell. 

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

The Anti-Abortion Politics of White Women

by Jacqueline Mercier Allain

The reality is that women—white women in particular—are among today’s anti-choice movers and shakers.