Roundup

The End of History, Part II

by Lynne V. Cheney

The new Advanced Placement U.S. history exam focuses on oppression, group identity and Reagan the warmonger.

“All the President’s Men” Is the Most Washington Movie Ever

by Benjamin Freed

But maybe a different Watergate movie should have won.

Yes, it’s tougher being an adult today

by Steven Mintz

The issue isn’t about how confusing the path to adulthood has become. It’s about what we can do to enable young people to take advantage of the freedom they have now.

It’s Time to End Tuition at Public Universities—and Abolish Student Debt

by Jon Wiener

In America today, people owe more on their student loans than they do on their credit cards. But there’s a simple and elegant way to end this travesty.

“We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think”: The iron grip of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew

by Jim Sleeper

Like Mayor Giuliani's New York, Lee's tiny city-state became cleaner, safer, more prosperous -- and more unequal

Satellite Images Don’t Lie

by Stephen H. Savage

What it’s like to be an archaeologist watching ISIS and other groups destroy important sites in the Middle East.

Michelle Obama, Race and the Ivy League

by Peter Slevin

The education of a future first lady.

When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?

by Elizabeth Yale

"Leaky archives; porous boundaries between public and private; individuals more powerful than the offices they hold. This doesn’t just describe the seventeenth century; we still live in this world."

Why Rand Paul stands out

by Julian Zelizer

For many disaffected younger Republicans, Paul offers a version of the conservative agenda that seems foreign to the modern GOP.

How Historians Lost Their Public

by Thomas Bender

The scholarship of the past couple of generations is too valuable to keep to ourselves.

Clones on the Court

by Akhil Reed Amar

A Supreme Court that once included former senators and governors is populated today by judges with identical résumés. Here's why that's a mistake.

Moscow's Twisted History Lessons

by Maxim Trudolyubov

Putin bends the narrative of Russia's past to justify his mission to reclaim the country's lost glory.

Is Texas Southern, Western, or Truly a Lone Star?

by John Nova Lomax

For most Texans, reveling in cowboy culture as a birthright or ancestral heritage is a fiction.

Why Yemen Matters

by Daniel Pipes

The Middle East witnessed something radically new two days ago, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia responded to a plea by Yemen's president and led a 10-country coalition to intervene in the air and on the ground in the country.

Why Reconstruction Matters

by Eric Foner

The post-Civil War era dealt with many of the same issues we grapple with today.

Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It

by Noam Chomsky

The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The Scene of the Crime

by Seymour M. Hersh

A reporter’s journey to My Lai and the secrets of the past.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

by Christopher Jencks

A new review suggests a higher ratio of success to failure than opinion polls do.

What the heck was the Logan Act?

by Matthew Wills

And who was Logan?