Roundup

Ron Chernow on the Midterm Elections of 1866

by Amy Davidson Sorkin

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson pressured Ulysses S. Grant into joining him in a series of rallies where he aired his vulgarity and racism.

Let’s Celebrate the 14th Amendment

by Amanda Brickell Bellows

It granted citizenship to African-Americans — an achievement worth remembering.

What’s Happening on the Border Is a Travesty

by Fran Shor

Alas, it’s part of a long American tradition.

For 60 Years, This Powerful Conservative Group Has Worked to Crush Labor

by Moshe Z. Marvit

Now the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal.

Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Remake American Politics

by Jonathan Zimmerman

The original decision gave conservatives a boost for decades. Overturning it could lead to a liberal resurgence.

The Myth of the Liberal Order

by Graham Allison

Among the current, potentially mortal threats to the global order, Trump is one, but not the most important.

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"Abolish ICE" is a massive political mistake

by Julian Zelizer

While focusing on ICE is an extremely important debate, and dismantling the agency might the be the best policy decision, it carries enormous short-term political risks for the Democrats going into the midterm elections.

This was the most gutting month for liberals in half a century

by Todd Gitlin

Does the arc of the moral universe still bend toward justice?

More Devoted to Order Than to Justice

by Ibram X. Kendi

Political moderates who counsel against confrontation and warn of incivility would abandon the tools that have changed America for the better.

After the Supreme Court blow, unions should look to a new model: the NRA

by Heather Cox Richardson

Historic battles between business and ordinary people have played out in America’s top court before. Now, it is happening again.

Genocide hoax tests ethics of academic publishing

by Reuben Rose-Redwood

An academic journal published a controversial article advocating for colonialism last fall. Would academic journals also publish an outrageous article advocating for genocide?

Like Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan tried to keep out asylum seekers

by Carly Goodman

Activists thwarted him.

Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers

by Steve Pinkerton

The anser involves two facts:  1. The US has the largest Christian population in the world, and 2. Americans love guns.

Historians for Prison Abolition

by Eric Morgenson

The same companies that house prisoners are also paid by the government to house immigrants, creating a problem that sits at the intersection of race and capitalism.

Poland's Muslim Ban

by Daniel Pipes

Why have Poles responded so differently from Western Europeans to Muslim migration?

How Supreme Court Nominations Lost Their Apolitical Pretense

by David Greenberg

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

Roundup Top 10!

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

Comparisons between US immigration policy and the Nazi period may not be helpful, but they are hard to avoid

by David Tollerton

It is the task of historians to draw parallels, however uncomfortable.

The travel ban decision echoes some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history

by Aziz Huq

The logic SCOTUS used to uphold the travel ban would justify Japanese internment camps.