Roundup

Video of the Week: Disney World Adds Trump Animatronic Figure

by Camila Domonoske

A new president in real life means a new president at Magic Kingdom, too.

The Many Lives of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"

by Walter Laqueur

Born obscurely in turbulent times, the notorious text describing a Jewish conspiracy to enslave humanity lives on even today. Why?

Much Ado About Nothing (Re: JFK Conspiracy Theories)

by Max Holland

Almost two-thirds of Americans believe there was a wider conspiracy to kill Jack Kennedy. They're wrong.

The G.O.P.’s Legislative Lemons

by Michael Tomasky

Like the tax bill, nearly all GOP legislation of the past 27 years has been unpopular. Why do they pass it?

Why Ajit Pai is wrong about net neutrality

by Michael J. Socolow

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

Roundup Top 10!

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

We need more government, not less, in the war on poverty

by Mehrsa Baradaran

The myth of the “dependent” poor

Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

by Tyler Parry

As early as 1866, Edward A. Pollard’s book The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the Confederates claimed to present “a severely just account of the War” to contend against the “false schools of public opinion.”

Why the Russia Scandal Is Nothing Like Watergate

by Jeff Greenfield

Imagining how Nixon would have fared in today’s political climate.

The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore

by Randall Balmer

After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce.  After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault. 

No one should be surprised by journalism’s sexual harassment problem

by Kathryn J. McGarr

Women in the industry have long been treated as second-class citizens.

Secrecy in the Senate

by Katlyn Marie Carter

To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

by Patrick Blanchfield

A new history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Still Waiting

by Andrew J. Bacevich

A Harvey Weinstein Moment for America’s Wars?

What Liberals Can Learn From Conservatism

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Criticizing the president with the kind of radical rhetoric he uses is toxic for American democracy.

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal

by Heather Cox Richardson

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

Obama is right: US democracy is fragile

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Signs abound that our freedoms are under siege, not only from foreign enemies such as Vladimir Putin but also from forces inside our country, starting with the radicalized elements of the Republican Party.

Video of the Week: The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself

by Emily Buder

The history of a single monument is writ large in Pettengill's new short film, Graven Image, produced by Field of Vision.

Why Trump’s evangelical supporters welcome his move on Jerusalem

by Julie Ingersoll

The nation of Israel and the role of the city of Jerusalem are central in the “end-times” theology – a form of what is known as “pre-millennialism” – embraced by many American conservative Protestants. ​

Roy Moore Is Strangely Nostalgic for Slavery Days

by Tim Murphy

When “families were strong.”