Roundup

Venezuela’s Tyranny of Bad Ideas

by Daniel Pipes

Socialism was a proven failure, but Hugo Chávez got his countrymen to try it.

America’s Never-Ending Culture War

by Michael Kazin

The issues that drove protesters to Chicago in 1968 are still motivating our partisan divide, 50 years later.

Measuring Presidents’ Misdeeds

by Jill Lepore

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.

How the 1968 Democratic convention fomented today's culture wars

by Leonard Steinhorn

The Battle of Michigan Avenue foreshadowed the America we inhabit today: divided, distrustful, aggrieved and entrenched in opposing cultural camps and world views.

There’s a dark history to the campaign finance laws Michael Cohen broke

by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

And that should worry Trump.

Millennials Don't Think America Was Ever That Great

by Rick Moran

Liberal teachers have left students with the impression that the concept of American exceptionalism is a scam.

Neil Gorsuch is the most illegitimate member of the Supreme Court in U.S. history

by Ian Millhiser

The confirmation process broke a quarter century ago, and no one noticed.

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RIP to the Liberal Order

by Suzy Kim

American Mourning after the US-North Korea June Summit

Walls Don’t Just Keep People Out

by David Frye

History shows they also change the people inside.

Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump

by Alfred W. McCoy

“America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents

Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism Anymore

by Heather Cox Richardson

The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs

by Louis Hyman

The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers.

How America’s Jews Learned to Be Liberal

by Steven R. Weisman

The answer lies in the 19th century, when Judaism became a distinctively American religion.

Stolen Elections, Voting Dogs And Other Fantastic Fables From The GOP Voter Fraud Mythology

by Rick Perlstein and Livia Gershon

The GOP has cried “voter fraud” for decades — and used it as justification to target minorities at the polls.

TV and the Bomb

by Reba Wissner

Fictional American television shows featured serious topics such as nuclear weapons pretty frequently during the 1950s and 1960s.

Can the Democrats Fix Washington?

by Michael Tomasky

The prospect of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall recalls the moment, nearly 50 years ago, when a group of young, liberal lawmakers swept into Congress on a mission to overturn the status quo. What can today's Democrats learn from the historic class of 1974?

Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North

by Brian J Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis

A southern city has now become synonymous with the ongoing scourge of racism in the United States. Such a one-sided view misses how entrenched, widespread and multi-various racism is and has been across the country.

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

The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis

by Adam Tooze

What the world should have learned in 2008 is that foreign banks were racking up sizable liabilities that had to be paid in dollars. If the money markets where they obtained these dollars ceased to function, many of the world’s banks would immediately be at risk of failure.