Roundup

Lessons on political polarization from Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ speech, 160 years later

by Bradford Vivian

The idea that America is politically polarized isn’t new.

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

Lessons From the Gilded Age

by Sarah Jones

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

Trump’s treatment of Canada is another reminder that he’s nothing like Reagan

by Fred Hiatt

The abject willingness of Republican politicians to discard their supposed fidelity to Reaganite principles has become so familiar in the Trump era that we hardly notice any longer.

Trump is everything Republicans said Obama was

by Tom Nichols

They called Obama an inexperienced, self-serving celebrity. Then their party chose Trump.

Will Trump Be Nixon in China?

by Andrew Preston

The president's meeting with Kim Jong Un could go more like Eisenhower with Khrushchev—which wouldn't be good.

What Dr. Ruth told Dr. Kissinger at a dinner with Angela Merkel

by George Packer

When Kissinger said it was a mistake for Germany to admit a million refugees Dr. Ruth told her own refugee story.

Video of the Week: The White House's Trailer for North Korea

The video was aired in Korean and English for reporters ahead of Trump’s press conference in Singapore. Trump showed it to Kim on his iPAD.

The Miss America Pageant taught us to ogle women’s bodies. Can it now teach us to value their ideas?

by Kimberly A. Hamlin

As long as beauty pageants exist, it's unlikely.

What the Salem witches can teach us about how we treat women today

by Connie Hassett-Walker

We must stop targeting nonconforming, vulnerable women.

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

by Miranda Carter

One of the few things that Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918, had a talent for was causing outrage.

When Henry Clay Led the #Resistance

by Seth Masket

To get a sense of the quandary facing the Democratic Party, look back two centuries, to the plight of the short-lived National Republican Party.

What Donald Trump doesn’t know about the War of 1812

by Renée Lafferty-Salhany

“Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”

Infinite War

by Andrew J. Bacevich

Like our European Allies in World War I we are mired in a senseless war and don’t know how to stop it.

Europe’s Vanishing Calm

by Victor Davis Hanson

Europeans claim to be building a new democratic culture but the governing elites of the European Union consider voters little more than members of reckless mobs.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The Persistence of a Mythic Second Amendment in Contemporary Constitutional Culture

by Saul Cornell

The most prominent myth obscuring historical understanding of the Second Amendment relates to America’s frontier past.

Why RFK's assassination still matters today

by Leonard Steinhorn

As we look back on Robert Kennedy's death, we can trace a straight line from that tragic moment 50 years ago at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to the racial resentments and grievances that Richard Nixon validated to the presidency of Donald J. Trump today.

The Enlightenment’s Dark Side

by Jamelle Bouie

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

How business broke the post-war consensus and gave us Movement Conservatism

by Heather Cox Richardson

Coming out of the Depression and World War II, there was not a lot of daylight in America between conservatives and liberals.