Roundup

No More Saturday Marches

by Nelson Lichtenstein

The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women’s Strike lies in organizers’ willingness to halt business as usual.

The Press Was the Enemy of the People in John Adams’s Era

by Jeff Biggers

Federalists even passed a law allowing the authorities to jail journalists.

Video of the Week: The Last Silk Mill in the United States

by Scott Rensberger

It’s in a dried up town in Maryland that died with the coal industry.

Roundup Top 10!

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

How military service influenced the modern Civil Rights Movement

by T. Anthony Bell

Medgar Evers, like many civil rights activists, was a veteran.  Their service shaped their activism. 

The GOP’s Long History With Black Colleges

by Theodore R. Johnson and Leah Wright Rigueur

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?

The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

by Musa al-Gharbi

The Democratic Party is in crisis. Demographics will be unlikely to save them. If anything, the trend seems to be going in the other direction.

Have We Figured Out Trumpism Yet?

by Kevin Mattson

One thing we do know: It’s not economic populism.

What Calling Congress Achieves

by Kathryn Schulz

It’s said to be the most effective way to petition the government, but does it really make a difference?

What Is a Populist?

by Uri Friedman

And is Donald Trump one?

The surgeon who led the way for MLK and others

by David T. Beito

His name was T.R.M. Howard and he was the richest black man in Mississippi. (He was also on J. Edgar Hoover’s list of enemies.)

Video of the Week: James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials

“Confederate Monuments: Modest Proposals” was part of the American Civil War Museum’s 2017 annual symposium, “Lightning Rods of Controversy: Civil War Monuments Past, Present, and Future.”

Trump Can't Sell Fear Unless the Public Buys It

by Ira Chernus

Presidential fear mongering is not rare, nor a stark contrast to the past. It is the common pattern of the past in all living Americans' memory.

America’s mass deportation system is rooted in racism

by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Historically speaking, immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in U.S. law and life.

The Myth of Meritocracy

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Race and ethnicity have always mattered in college admissions. But they mattered in different ways at different times.

Infographic of the Week: American Women in War

Their Evolving Role

The Antidemocratic Origins of Fake News

by Jeremy C. Young

The cynical philosophy of those who peddled false information in the 1910s and 1920s can help us understand why fake news is not only bad for the public but also antithetical to a democratic culture.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Video of the Week: Harriet Tubman

by Scott Rensberger

See Harriet Tubman as you haven't seen her before.

How We Got Here

by Danny Sjursen

The Misuse of American Military Power and The Middle East in Chaos