Roundup

Did Outlawing War Actually Work?

by Chris Gehrz

Two Yale law professors claim in a new book that the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact helped end the practice of countries using war in a land grab.  They mistake correlation with causation. 

What Are Impeachable Offenses?

by Noah Feldman and Jacob Weisberg

Whether or not it is “worse than Watergate,” the Trump-Russia scandal differs from it in ways that bear directly on how impeachment might serve as a remedy today.

History shows us how calamitous the North Korea crisis could become

by David Ignatius

Wars usually start when leaders make wrong calculations.

Video of the Week: New Watergate movie is about Mark Felt, Deep Throat (Trailer)

Oscar nominee Liam Neeson will put a face to the pseudonym in writer-director Peter Landesman’s upcoming feature “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.”

Calculating The Risk Of Preventive War

by Max Boot

The issue of “preemptive” war is more in the news now than at any time since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Obama’s Legacy Is Finally Coming Into Focus

by Jonathan Chait

Thanks to Donald Trump's attack on his legacy.

Why are so many white men so angry?

by Steven M. Gillon

The most important factor was the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965.

Bryn Mawr wrong to cleanse campus of references to former president

by Jonathan Zimmerman

When we remove the physical traces of discredited historical figures, we give ourselves more credit than we deserve. We forget that we live in history, too, and that we will be judged by it as well.

No to Arming Ukraine

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

The question Americans should be asking is whether it is their duty to pick sides in a complex civil conflict and what underlying agendas have been driving U.S. interference in the country to this point.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The End of a Political Era: Movement Conservatism Gets Real

by Heather Cox Richardson

The ascendency of Donald Trump empowers movement conservatives to make their rhetoric real, but the reality is that voters don't want them to.

Trump Tears Down LBJ’s Great Society Piece by Piece

by Christina Greer

How the Trump election commission could corrode our civil rights from within.

Charlottesville and the Misuse of History

by Steve Gillon

The tragic events in Charlottesville were only the latest flash point in a crisis of white identity.

Why Vietnam Was Unwinnable

by Kevin Boylan

Revisionist historians argue that America could have prevailed, but the media and politics got in the way. It’s not that easy.

Trump’s Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism

by Tim Messer-Kruse

American color-blind liberalism depends on a less messy history, one with the moral clarity that is useful to deny the inherently racist nature of American government and society.

Worshiping the Confederacy is about white supremacy — even the Nazis thought so

by Nina Silber

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

Baltimore’s Confederate Monument Was Never About ‘History And Culture’

by Jane Dailey

Why would a city in a state that sat out the Civil War erect a monument to Confederate generals in 1948?

The Strange Politics of ‘Classified’ Information

by Beverly Gage

Is it easier to keep secrets when you have fewer of them?

The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy

by Karen L. Cox

Confederate statues "served to rehabilitate white men — not as the losers of a war but, as a monument in Charlotte states, preservers of 'the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South.' ”

What those monuments stand for

by Manisha Sinha

There is one thing that the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who rallied to the defense of Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville got right: They understood the historical meaning of Confederate monuments.