Roundup

Dinesh D’Souza Is Q but for Book-Reading Republicans

by Ronald Radosh

His crackpottery is being applauded in conservative outlets that seem to have been infected by a strain of whataboutism that one could call Trump Derangement Derangement Syndrome.

Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas

by NYT Editorial Board

An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.

The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem

by Josephine Livingstone

The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

How Confederate history looks in the shadow of Charlottesville

by Manisha Sinha

This was not the first time white supremacists had wrought havoc in the country.

The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship

by Michael Conway and Jon Marshall

The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

There’s no easy answer for Confederate monuments

by Niels Eichhorn

Trying to add more context won't prevent them from being rallying points for white supremacists and others.

The Obama Center Can Afford More Than $1 Rent

by Mark Glennon

It’s a political ‘institute,’ not a presidential library. So taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for anything.

German-American history, largely erased, has lessons for our anti-immigrant era

by Erika Schelby

Germans are the largest ancestry group in the U.S., but their identity has been largely disappeared. Here’s why.

Anthropocene vs Meghalayan: why geologists are fighting over whether humans are a force of nature

by Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis

Defining – or not defining – when humanity became a significant geological influence is highly political, and crucial in an age of ever-increasing environmental change and degradation.

Roundup Top 10!

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

How Nixon Came Back

by Ted Widmer

Fifty years ago, the former vice president executed the greatest reversal of fortune in American political history.

Now the Trump administration is trying to punish legal immigrants for being poor

by Torrie Hester, Mary E. Mendoza, Deirdre Moloney and Mae Ngai

A harsh new proposal threatens to upend 400 years of immigration policy.

Audiences love the anger: Alex Jones, or someone like him, will be back

by Michael J. Socolow

Confrontational characters spouting conspiracy theories and promoting fringe ideas have been with us since the invention of American broadcasting.

Believe it or not, Trump’s following a familiar script on Russia

by Robert Kagan

Both Bush (W) and Obama allowed Russia to get away with territorial conquests. Bush didn't even levy sanctions after the invasion of Georgia.

If You Want To End Racism, Stop Forgiving Racists

by Carol Anderson

We have tended to forgive those who waged the most sustained, brutal assaults in the name of white supremacy, without requiring them to repudiate their beliefs or actions in return.

Paeans to the "Postwar Order" Won’t Save Us

by Stephen Wertheim

The “international order” talk stifles rather than sharpens debate.

The Return of James Monroe

by Walter Russell Mead

Latin America’s crisis turns Washington’s Cold War nightmare on its head.

Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments.

by Cynthia Prescott

Most early pioneer statues celebrated whites dominating American Indians.

Donald Trump, Mesmerist

by Emily Ogden

Like the mesmerists, what Mr. Trump is actually selling is anti-mesmerism. The mesmerists were offering a fantasy of turning the tables on con men by exposing their tricks.

Trouble still ahead for GOP

by Julian Zelizer

It is not clear that the economy will be enough to save the Republicans from the damage that President Trump has caused them through his time in office.