Roundup

Source: the Washington Spectator

February 29, 2016

Sanders, Clinton, and the Democrats’ Dilemma

by Rick Perlstein

Do Democrats even care about big ideas anymore?

Source: The New Yorker

March 1, 2016

From Goldwater to Trump: When Parties Fail to Stop Alarming Candidates

by Jeffrey Frank

In 1964, Republican Party leaders were terrified by the ascent of the conservative Arizona senator Barry Goldwater.

Source: Winston-Salem Journal

February 29, 2016

The cowardly bully would flunk eighth-grade civics

by George Will

Trump, the thin-skinned tough guy, resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his “safe space.”

Source: The Daily Beast

February 27, 2016

William Mulholland Gave Water to LA and Inspired ‘Chinatown’

by Jon Wilkman

Irish immigrant William Mulholland brought LA the water it needed to grow, even when he was accused of stealing it, and even when it cost the lives of almost 500 innocent people.

Source: Tom Dispatch

March 1, 2016

Don't Cry for Me, America

by Andrew J. Bacevich

What Trumpism Means for Democracy

Source: Huffington Post

February 29, 2016

Trump, Berlusconi, Hitler and the Populist Moment

by Robert Kuttner

Trump's no Hitler, but there's a striking parallel nonetheless.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

February 28, 2016

Dirty tricks are nothing new

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Surreptitious slander is a bipartisan tactic, though it’s become a mainstay for the GOP.

Source: OZY

February 29, 2016

Why the First Super Tuesday Was Not So Super

by Sean Braswell

The sheer size and scope of the Super Tuesday battlefield … made the contest daunting.

Source: The Atlantic

February 26, 2016

The Myth of the Barter Economy

by Ilana E. Strauss

Adam Smith said that quid-pro-quo exchange systems preceded economies based on currency, but there’s no evidence that he was right.

February 25, 2016

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

This week ... Beschloss, Schama, Naftali, and more. Plus: find out whose coat this is!

Source: The Washington Post

February 25, 2016

How Biden killed John Roberts’s nomination in 1992

by Marc Thiessen

What Republicans are doing today is far from unprecedented. To the contrary, it is the norm.

February 25, 2016

Roundup Top 10!

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

February 24, 2016

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week ... Spielberg, Van Gogh, Trumbo, the movie "Race" and more.

Source: Commentary

February 22, 2016

Donald Trump’s Honesty Problem

by Max Boot

A significant share of the GOP electorate, amounting to roughly a third of early state voters, has been supporting him in no small part because they think he is telling it “like it is.” No, he isn’t. What he is saying bears no relation to basic truth or common decency.

Source: The Nation

February 24, 2016

Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?

by Michael Kazin

The Nation asked 4 historians for a response to this question. This is Michael Kazin's.

Source: American Thinker

February 24, 2016

America’s Black Patriots: the History You Never Learned in School

by Kimberly Bloom Jackson

Let’s take a closer look at some of these amazing black American patriots.

Source: The Conversation

February 23, 2016

Story of the Week: The man who began campaigning against #OscarsSoWhite – 74 years ago

by Jenny Woodley

In 1942 a man called Walter White travelled from New York to Hollywood, armed with a letter of introduction from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. His aim was to try to persuade filmmakers to positively portray African Americans in movies.