Roundup

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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 Rise of America’s Irish

by Jason Riley

They arrived dirt poor and uneducated in the 1840s. After decades of struggle, they achieved prosperity.

America’s Phony War

by William Astore

Blitzkrieg Overseas, Sitzkrieg in the Homeland

A time for school choice?

by Johann Neem

If so, let’s make sure we ask the right questions.

Can Donald Trump Be Impeached?

by Andrew Sullivan

It’s really hard to impeach a president.

The Russian ‘fake news’ campaign that damaged the United States — in the 1980s

by Alexander Poster

2016 wasn't the first time that Russia used fake news as a weapon against the United States.

Video of the Week: How the media is marking Women's History Month

Jessica Bennett, gender editor for The New York Times, speaks with Brian Stelter about "Overlooked," a new obituary project about pioneering women who never had an obit in the paper.

Where Is Barack Obama?

by Julian E. Zelizer

The former president’s reticence in the Trump era is only hurting his party.

In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer

by Shashi Tharoor

Words, in the end, are all that Churchill admirers can point to. His actions are another matter altogether.

Arbitration as a way out of the North Korean crisis

by Ronald Sievert and William Norris

It's worked before.

From Segregation to Gentrification

by Mike Green

Lessons from Seattle and Detroit: How city policies and NIMBYism lead to unimpeded market forces displacing poor people of color.

The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination

by Vann R. Newkirk II

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

Roundup Top 10!

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

'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

by Adam Winkler

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.

Video of the Week: Wall Street Women In History ... Meet the First Female Stockbroker

by Tracy Byrnes

Her name was Victoria Woodhull. She later ran for president. 

James Madison Would Like a Few Words on Trade Wars

by Noah Feldman

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.

Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War

by Manisha Sinha

We would do well to pay heed to the old enmities bubbling up in our politics: it is not that we are on the verge of another civil war, but that the Civil War never truly ended.

Will the United States ever get back on a bipartisan 'Middle Way?'

by Louis Galambos

History provides a lesson about how the United States can return to bipartisanship and more civil political discourse.

Who Does She Stand For?

by Paul A. Kramer

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

‘Trade wars are good’?

by Marc-William Palen

Three past conflicts tell a very different story.