Roundup

Video of the Week: Racist Roadshow

How racist are your treasured family trinkets? Ashley Nicole Black knows! Bring 'em on down to The Racist Roadshow.

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

How white evangelicals learned to love Donald Trump

by Emily S. Johnson

Evangelical support for the president reflects four decades of political lessons.

Republicans want to use immigration policy to remake America’s demography. Here’s why they’re destined to fail.

by Julia G. Young

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

How Nations Recover

by David Brooks

Lessons from British history show that with inspired leadership a country can overcome polarization and economic challenges.

Our Enemy, Ourselves

by William J. Astore

Ten Commonsense Suggestions for Making Peace, Not War

Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade

by Daina Ramey Berry

For much of the 19th century, when medical schools needed specimens, they relied on the dead bodies of enslaved people.

Remembering white allies during Black History Month

by Jonathan Zimmerman

It’s Black History Month. So it’s time to talk about Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . . . and also Tom Watson.

The complex history of ‘In God We Trust’

by David Mislin

In his first State of the Union address President Donald Trump sought to link religion with American identity. But the history of “In God We Trust” is more complex than Trump’s assertion suggests.

The Demise of the Conservative Intellectual

by Kevin Mattson

Attacking educated “elites” is red meat for conservative politicians. But for intellectuals to go down that same road is a grave danger to our democratic discourse.

Why America Is Stuck With Only Two Parties

by Micah L. Sifry

If the United States ever gets a major new political party, it won’t be built by think tank denizens.

The 1965 Political Blunder That Beget Current U.S. Immigration Policy

by Steven M. Gillon

Legislators never considered how “family unification” could produce a chain of migration that would confound efforts to control immigration.

"Arabs and Muslims Will Never Accept Israel as the Jewish State"

by Daniel Pipes

That's what some are saying.  It's not true. 

Congress shouldn’t squander a unique opportunity to honor those once enslaved at National Airport

by Thomas A. Foster

Should the site of a 1,000-acre plantation be named for former first lady Nancy Reagan? Several members of Congress may think so, but any renaming of Gravelly Point Park in Arlington should honor those once enslaved there.

Video of the Week: How Many U.S. Wars Equal the One in Afghanistan?

Afghanistan is America’s longest war — about 6,000 days. That's longer than WWI, WWII and the Korean War combined.

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

A century ago, progressives were the ones shouting ‘fake news’

by Matthew Jordan

As a rhetorical strategy for eroding trust in the media, the term dates back to the end of the 19th century.

Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism

by George F. Will

A new biography released by the Cato Institute shows this.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About LBJ’s Great Society

by Joshua Zeitz

It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked.

TV Gave Us the Modern State of the Union. Then It Killed It.

by David Greenberg

Today, the ritual seems to be waning in importance.