Roundup

Trump Is the New ________

by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.

Spies on Campus: The CIA and the FBI from the Indochina Wars to the “War on Terror”

by Daniel Golden

Once upon a time the CIA was banned from campuses. No more. Here's how the change took place. 

The Crack-Up

by John Feffer

Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

Yes, Bush Was That Bad

by Corey Robin

Can we please stop rehabilitating Republican ghouls?

Tillerson tells Iraqi Shiite Militias to “go home.” Sad.

by Juan Cole

There is one problem. There are no Iranian militias in Iraq.

A Confederate general who was erased from history

by Roanoke Times Editorial

The conversation these days is about whether Confederate statues should be taken down. Here’s a question nobody is asking: Which Confederate statues should we be putting up? Why are there not statues to William Mahone?

There's More to the Story About General Pershing's Campaign Against Muslims

by Paul A. Kramer

Donald Trump's claims were debunked.  But what the commentators tended to underplay or overlook was that Pershing, while he did not order the shooting of prisoners as far as we know, did participate in forms of warfare that used pigs and the threat of pigs to spread terror in Moro society.

How WW II American Leaders in North Africa Learned to Disregard the Interests of Jews

by Michael Doran

Old fashioned anti-Semitism played a role, but the greater part had to do with a fear, justified or not, of provoking the Arabs.

To Be Continued, or Who Lost the Civil War?

by Keenan Norris

The possibility that the victors do not necessarily write the histories is an interesting one.

George W. Bush & GOP lack standing to bash Trump for Racism

by Juan Cole

Trump is merely the logical conclusion of the Southern strategy, and until the Republican Party comes to terms with its decades of latent racism and its rather loud dog whistle, it will create more and more Trumps.

The Founding Fathers provided us with a way out of troubled presidency — the direct, doable process of impeachment

by Barbara Radnofsky

The Founding Fathers, after all, won a revolution against a tyrannical chief executive — “Mad” King George III of England. They were fearful of a similar kind of leader taking charge in the new United States.

Roundup Top 10!

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

No, there is no witch hunt against powerful men

by Michelle D. Brock

They're the hunters, not the hunted.

Video of the Week: The University of Virginia comes face-to-face with its own history of slavery

For many years, the history of enslaved laborers’ contributions to the building of the University of Virginia was not told. That’s changing.

This Long-Forgotten Book Is The Key To Understanding Donald Trump

by Jonathan Judaken

It was like discovering Donald Trump’s playbook.

Does It Matter If the President Is Smart?

by Jeff Greenfield

Donald Trump loves to flaunt his IQ. But brains aren’t what make a leader great.

Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders

African Americans have always had the burden of both asserting their own histories and narratives while battling against the ones that sought to marginalize them.

The Historical Roots of the Current North Korea Crisis

by Suzy Kim

There’s a way out of the confrontation with North Korea.

Fetch the purple toga: Emperor Trump is here

by Niall Ferguson

As in Rome’s republic, America’s balance of powers has quietly corroded.

Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved

by Saul Cornell

The Second Amendment is one of the most frequently cited provisions in the American Constitution, but also one of the most poorly understood.