Roundup

American Democracy Down for the Count

by Ann Jones

Or What Is It the Scandinavians Have That We Don’t?

When College Radicals Obliterate History

by David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd

Liberals are erasing history.  Is George Washington Next? 

Pushback for Anti-Israel Academics

by Cary Nelson

The American Historical Association recognized that its own credibility was on the line in a recent vote.

The Triumph of the Hard Right

by Garry Wills

A review of E.J. Dionne’s "Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond."

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What Ted Cruz Doesn’t Know About Ronald Reagan

by John Nichols

Reagan was a liberal Democrat who decried wrongheaded Republicans before he became the conservative hero of wrongheaded Republicans.

Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored

by Andrew J. Bacevich

Six National Security Questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., Don’t Want to Answer and Won’t Even Be Asked

So Hillary believes in the discredited Southern Lost Cause theory? Ridiculous.

by Harold Holzer

Her remark that had Lincoln lived the horrors of post-war Reconstruction might have been mitigated doesn't make her an enemy of Reconstruction. 

Reagan as History

by Kiron K. Skinner

Can any one biography do justice to the life and accomplishments of America’s fortieth President?

Tahrir 5 Years Later

by Juan Cole

The Hurdles to Democratization & Arab Youth Revolts

Video of the Week: Reporting on the Times, The New York Times and the Holocaust

Of more than 23,000 front-page articles between 1939 and 1945, just 26 were about the Holocaust.

The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semites

by Gil Troy

Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose seminal defense of his own faith—and others’—was once memorized by schoolchildren everywhere.

Let’s make an honest man of Ted Cruz. Here’s how we resolve his “birther” dilemma with integrity

by Saul Cornell

Under the originalist reading Cruz favors, he's likely not natural born. Maybe this will be a lesson in modernity.

America May Have Forgotten Schwarzenegger 2003, but Donald Trump 2016 Has Not

by Kaleb Horton

Though we’ve largely disregarded that time the nation’s most populous state elected a former action hero to its governor’s mansion, The Donald’s campaign for the White House is giving us a refresher.

Why Were Euroskeptics Ignored?

by Walter Laqueur

For the sake of Europe’s future, it would pay to revisit the many warning signs that, though pointed out at the time, were mocked, dismissed, or denied.

Ted Cruz has a very real birther problem: The law is not settled — but the history is

by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

The founders did restrict the presidency to natural-born citizens. Ted Cruz's status is deeply complicated.

Five myths about Reconstruction

by James W. Loewen

The United States is entering the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction, that period after the Civil War when African Americans briefly enjoyed full civil and political rights. Here are five common fallacies that Americans still tell themselves about this formative period.

Fear of a foreign-born president made sense in 1787 – not today

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Why do you have to be a natural-born citizen in order to lead the country?

The secular front in the US

by John Fea

For evangelicals, the secular progressive vision of the world is a threat to the institutions that they hold dear.

Roundup Top 10!

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