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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

by HNN Editor

This week ... movies about Brooklyn, Narcs, and suffragettes and the crumbling architecture of Nuremberg. 

“Your little brother is not the ultimate authority”: How Jeb Bush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W

by Heather Digby Parton

Fifteen years ago, America voted for Al Gore. Unfortunately for Gore, he didn't have a governor for a brother

For Trump, it’s the branding strategy, stupid

by Brian Balogh

Political pundits should stop asking what Trump plans to do as president. Instead, they should examine the impact that his campaign has had on the value of his brand’s bottom line.

Mystery: Just who was that man who looked like the Mufti?

by Martin Kramer

A historian’s search for evidence and the truth.

The forgotten whistle-blowers who saved Jewish lives

by Amanda J. Rothschild

How Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. pushed for the creation of a board to rescue refugees with the help of courageous men who put their careers at risk.

How Woodrow Wilson Stoked the First Urban Race Riot

by Tom Lewis

On Monday, July 21, 1919, Washington, D.C. became a battleground.

Could America Elect a Mentally Ill President?

by Alex Thompson

Yes. In fact, we probably already did.

Can Government Function Without Privacy?

by Lawrence Cappello

The release of Hillary Clinton’s emails signals a sharp break from the confidentiality traditionally afforded to top officials.

The Servile Fanatic: Niall Ferguson’s Grotesque but Telling New Biography of Henry Kissinger

by Todd Gitlin

"It is not a happy forecast of what is to follow that Ferguson sees Kissinger’s critics as grudge-bearing self-seekers."

Shimon Peres doubts Israel can win Permanent war or Survive Annexation of West Bank

by Juan Cole

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres, 92, gave an interview with the Associated Press Monday in which he spoke bluntly about the mistakes of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, without naming him.

NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?

by Erik Moshe

This week ... books about Rosemary Kennedy, Nixon, the Fed, the Middle East and the Supreme Court.

Who Needs Soviet Propaganda?

by David M. Barrett

A review of David Talbot’s "The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government."

Sundown towns remain problem

by James W. Loewen

Here's what they should do when caught. 

The Worst Supreme Court Justice in History?

by Sean Braswell

The court’s history is riddled with undistinguished jurists.

Tainted Treats: Racism And The Rise Of Big Candy

by Nina Martyris

The candy market was divided by race. More expensive varieties, such as hand-dipped chocolate bonbons, were aimed at young white women and middle-class children. The cheap stick candy, meanwhile, was targeted at blacks, the Irish and Chinese.

Eisenhower, an Unlikely Pioneer of TV Ads

by Michael Beschloss

The year 1952 was the first presidential election year in which a sizable number of Americans — an estimated 40 million — owned televisions.

Frederick Douglass's Faith in Photography

by Matthew Pratt Guterl

How the former slave and abolitionist became the most photographed man in America.

GOP hates the media because they are liars: The damning, evil history of the right’s war on a free press

by Heather Cox Richardson

The real story behind CNBC debate, and Fox News' very existence, comes down to the right's fear of being exposed

It's Too Soon to Call This the Anthropocene

by Vaclav Smil

"Next year the International Geological Congress will consider recognizing this name as the latest addition to the standard geological time scales. My reaction, echoing the Romans: Festina lente. Make haste slowly."

Paradigms Lost

by David P. Barash

Science is not a ‘body of knowledge’ – it’s a dynamic, ongoing reconfiguration of knowledge and must be free to change.