Roundup

What Race Is Meghan Markle? What about Sally Hemmings?

by Peter Feinman

Should We the People classify Americans based on race other than human?

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

Why hero worship is a mistake for the left

by Scott W. Stern

Their heroes  –  like Earl Warren  –  often have a dark side.

How slave labor built the state of Florida — decades after the Civil War

by Bryan Bowman and Kathy Roberts Forde

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.

Would the Founders want our kids to die in school shootings like Santa Fe? I doubt it.

by Jill Lawrence

Does anyone think they would expect us to live by a 230-year-old document?

Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

by Ellen Schrecker

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed

by Andrew Sullivan

In one respect the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful. In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy.

Nothing in All Creation Is Hidden

by Kevin Baker

Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

A Thing for Men in Uniforms

by James Kirchick

The marriage of macho gay male identity and ultra-reactionary politics.

The County That Closed Its Public Schools Rather Than Desegregate After Brown v. Board of Education

by Arica L. Coleman

Brown has been under attack since it became law. That's why we need to know whether officials support it.

Where are all the revolutionaries of 1968? They’re long gone.

by Martin Kettle

Fifty years ago, hundreds of thousands marched in Paris. But the political and economic changes they called for never came.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Enjoy the Jerusalem Embassy – But Don't Get Giddy

by Daniel Pipes

There's reason to see the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital not as an end in itself but as one act of a three-part drama that ends badly for the Jewish state.

In 1918, Mary Turner's Brutal Murder Changed the Politics of Lynching in America

by Julie Buckner Armstrong

Can Remembering the Story of This Pregnant 21-Year-Old Help Us Emerge From a Bloody Past?

William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump

by Jelani Cobb

After the success of the Moral Monday protests, the pastor is attempting to revive Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s final—and most radical—campaign.

It wasn’t just African Americans who were lynched

by Beth Lew-Williams

So were Native Americans, Mexicans, and even Chinese.

Trump, Iran and American Power

by Walter Russell Mead

The president sees Tehran’s overreach as an opportunity to arrest U.S. decline.

It's Time for Police to Start Snitching

by Ibram X. Kendi

Communities of color are actually disproportionately likely to report crimes—it’s police themselves who have maintained a corrosive culture of silence.

The Rise of the Victims’-Rights Movement

by Jill Lepore

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.