Roundup

The Census and Right-Wing Hysteria

by Herbert J. Gans

Predictions about the end of the white majority are misleading.

Trump will likely win reelection in 2020

by Musa al-Gharbi

Even when people are unhappy with a state of affairs, they are usually disinclined to change it.

The Global Rightist Turn, Nationalism and Japan

by Karoline Postel-Vinay

The hostile reaction to globalization isn’t confined to the West.

Party Time

by Jill Lepore

Smear tactics, skulduggery, and the début of American democracy.

The Hazards of Military Worship

by Major Danny Sjursen

Everyone loves the troops and their generals, but history indicates that military advice isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Which Middle East Authoritarian Leader is Trump most Like?

by Juan Cole

Of course, Trump hasn’t yet done anything as egregious as al-Sisi or Erdogan. But he is clearly supporting them and perhaps learning from their tactics. But we can learn, too, for the purposes of the resistance.

Saving History

by Abram Van Engen

From the founding of the nation through the 19th century and into the eventual establishment of the NEH in 1965, the nation’s most formative leaders agreed wholeheartedly in this: History is fundamentally important, and it deserves our fullest support.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Trump's Tuesday Night Massacre Brings the Watergate Comparisons Full Circle

by Kevin M. Kruse

While it's easy to reach for Richard Nixon as the closest point of comparison, Trump's firing of James Comey parallels Watergate in a couple key ways.

Comey's firing was Trump's nuclear option on Russia probe

by Julian Zelizer

Trump has stunned the political world once again by issuing the orders to remove one of the most important figures in this entire investigation.

Video of the Week: Deborah Lipstadt Ted Talk

by Deborah Lipstadt

Behind the lies of Holocaust denial.

The American Revolution Was a Great Idea

by Mark Hemingway

The New Yorker questions if it really was.

How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

by Katherine Mooney

When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921.

Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916.

by George F. Will

As a 1916 billionaire, you would be materially worse off than a 2017 middle-class American.

Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is toxic: Psychologist

by John Gartner

Mental health professionals have a 'duty to warn' about a leader who may be unfit to serve.

What Trump Gets Wrong About NAFTA

by Jefferson Cowie

The deal is not the source of America's problems.

Don’t Know Much About History

by Michael Winship

Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That's dangerous for him and all the rest of us.

America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust

by Andrea Pitzer

When White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested on April 11 that atrocities carried out under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were in some way worse than those of Adolf Hitler, his statement placed him firmly in the bosom of a fine American tradition.

Civil War revisionism still shames America

by Manisha Sinha

Revisionists didn't believe ending slavery was worth a war.  If this is what Trump believes he should say so. 

How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars

by John W. Dower

When others act irrationally and violently they’re crazy. Not so when we do it.