Roundup

When Truth Becomes a Commodity

by Daniel T. Rodgers

"Post-truth" carries a catchy, advertising-agency ring. And that may be exactly what is wrong with it and with our times.

The slave trade made Scotland rich.

by Stephen McLaren

Now we must pay our blood-soaked debts.

What If a President Loses Control?

by Jeffrey Frank

There’s no need to dwell on the particular character of Trump, but it is worth examining what remedies exist if any President is too careless, inattentive, or impulsive to deal sensibly with questions affecting the nation’s survival.

Donald Trump Is Making the Great Man Theory of History Great Again

by David A. Bell

The president-elect’s unpredictable rise is forcing historians and social scientists to rethink their most basic assumptions about how the world works.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Blustering Toward Armageddon

by Jeremi Suri

How Donald Trump will take America to war.

The Millionaire Who Took on McCarthy

by Gil Troy

William Benton was an advertising icon and wildly successful investor—and with those millions backing him up, he took on the country’s scariest politician.

The Age of Great Expectations and the Great Void

by Andrew J. Bacevich

History After “the End of History”

When George Wallace Came to Town

by Joe Allen

Donald Trump’s appeal to some suffering white workers shouldn’t surprise us. George Wallace did the same thing four decades ago.

Three myths about the Electoral College

by Edward A. Zelinsky

Myth #1:  The Electoral College naturally favors the GOP.

For Anti-Trump Protesters: Lessons From the First White House Protests

by Peter Dreier

Those protests were on behalf of the cause of women's suffrage.

Martin Luther King Day With Trump

by Jelani Cobb

The holiday will be presided over by a President who scarcely seems to comprehend King’s principles.

Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community

by Juan Cole

The difference between Trump and Bush is only a matter of rhetorical style, and Trump hasn’t had the opportunity yet to endanger America the way Bush and the Neoconservatives did.

From Willie Horton to Donald Trump

by Doug Rossinow

Of all recent Republican standard-bearers, the one whose presidential campaign stands out as the most shockingly exploitative and hateful is the one who figures least of all in liberal narratives of Republican moral decline. That is the first President George Bush.

No! The Electoral College Was Not about Slavery!

by Gary L. Gregg II

The opponents of the Electoral College, in attempting to undermine support for the institution, have painted it with an unfair half-truth that distorts the historical record as well as the constitutional principles undergirding the system itself.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The Israeli Culture Minister's Warped Sense of History

by Kobi Niv

Miri Regev foolishly distinguishes between true history – the Jews' – and fallacious history – everyone else's. Well, she likes Donald Trump at least.

Trump and American Exceptionalism

by Stephen Wertheim

He may be the first president to take office who explicitly rejects American exceptionalism.

Republicans Return to Their Roots

by Nicole Hemmer

Trump's stances on foreign policy and trade have a long history within the Republican Party.

Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor just as the spectre of internment returns

by Rachel Pistol

While everyone is familiar with the most obvious consequence of the Pearl Harbor attack, the assault kicked off a number of events in the US itself that still resonate today – none more so than the policy of internment, which involved the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.