New perspectives on how history is made
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
The world needs new institutions for a new era—and nostalgia for a past that never existed won't help.
Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861?
We didn't need a trade war with Japan in the 1980s. We don't need one with China today.
Trump is trying to protect himself, not America.
Turns out conservatism as an intellectual idea goes back to the 15th century.
The key difference is among regional cultures tracing back to the nation’s colonization.
"If you have to go back to the 1860s or even the 1960s to claim the "party of civil rights" mantle, you're clearly grasping at straws."
The president was Andrew Johnson.
Eight years ago, the vice president set out his standards for judging a president. His boss fails to measure up.
Two problems, tapes and taxes, are common to both scandals.
Republicans are proving themselves to be enemies of democratic governance.
Moscow is a sideshow. The real dangers come from within the continent.
Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
But to have the US and Iran rattling sabers does not in the least benefit the American people.
Trump’s election has induced a paranoid response, one that, unless curbed, may well pose a greater danger to the country than Trump himself.
Trump's critics aren't paranoid.
Despite the political problems Britain is facing, life is so much better than in the Forties or Fifties.
We learned the price of isolationism once. Do we need to learn it again?
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