Roundup

Donald Trump and History’s Competing Visions of America’s ‘Forgotten Man’

by Jefferson Cowie

Trump's use of the term could mean several different things.

Why didn’t more women vote for Hillary Clinton?

by Jad Adams

If gender was going to be the determining factor, this was the election where it should happen.

How Will Trump Reshape the Middle East?

by Juan Cole

If he follows through on his erratic statements, he could manage to alienate Russia, the Gulf monarchies, the EU, and Iran.

Liberals think history is on their side.

by Damon Linker

They couldn't be more wrong.

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

America's Know-Nothing Diplomacy

by Daniel Pipes

As someone who's spent his near-50-year career working on the Middle East, the notion that ignorance makes for better diplomacy is pretty depressing.

Here’s how Democrats should respond to Trump’s win

by Jonathan Zimmerman

We liberals need to try much harder to understand the millions of our fellow citizens who cast ballots for Donald Trump. 

Why the White Working Class Rebelled

by Juan Cole

Neoliberalism is killing them (literally).

An Election for the Dark Ages

by John Terry

A medievalist on the uses and misuses of history in the 2016 campaign.

The Republicans' Andrew Johnson Moment

by Timothy S. Huebner

The Republican Party of the 1860s faced a stark choice. It could either commit itself to its founding principles of expanding freedom, opportunity, and rights, or it could follow Johnson toward a narrow conception of what it meant to be a part of the American community.

Hillary Clinton’s Journey—and Ours

by Eleanor Clift

They’ve talked about a woman president for 60 years. She was supposed to be perfect. Hillary isn’t that. But she’s the one who made it—she must have something.

Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed

by Juan Cole

Corporate television media in the United States is colluding in a cover-up of the threat of climate change, and they have specifically blacked out the climate change issue with regard to this election.

Why Coeducation at Universities Was Not a Triumph of Feminism

by Nancy Weiss Malkiel

Coeducation has fallen well short of righting the fundamental gender-driven challenges that still bedevil our society.

There was real voting fraud in Chicago in the old days

by Rick Perlstein

Here’s how it worked.

Donald Trump and the Death of American Exceptionalism

by Jelani Cobb

The problem of Trump is not simply that his opinions far exceed his knowledge; it’s that what he does know is so hostile to democracy, not only in the Republican Party or the United States but in the world.

Disciples of Distrust

by Garry Wills

Even comparing Trump to American demagogues is unfair—unfair to the past demagogues.

Roundup Top 10!

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

How ‘The New York Times’ Whitewashed the 1968 ‘October Surprise’—and Why It Still Matters

by Greg Grandin

Ever since Nixon and Kissinger undermined the Vietnam peace talks to win that election, politicians have used militarism abroad to defeat domestic opponents.

In the 1850s, the future of American slavery seemed bright

by Matthew Karp

That star was extinguished not by the operation of the laws of history – much less the natural evolution of the market – but by the victory of a political movement, a bloody civil war, and a social revolution across the South.

The Case Against Democracy

by Caleb Crain

If most voters are uninformed, who should make decisions about the public’s welfare?