Roundup

Roundup Top 10!

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

What we learned from the CIA Torture report: An interview with Tom Blanton

by Tom Blanton

What we didn't know until now.

The Secret History of the Clinton White House

"One senior Clinton figure confided to us during a casual lunch break that she would occasionally be in meetings of the highest historical importance and find that not a soul was taking notes."

How foreign policy makers view pivotal years says a great deal about how they act in 2014

by Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk

Pick your historical analogy.  1914.  1938. 

The Water Cure

by Paul Kramer

Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.

What does it feel like to push a button, launch a surface-to-air missile, and blow a B-52 bomber out of the sky?

by David Freed

A Vietnamese missile man’s story

Five Reasons Why Marco Polo Remains Fascinating

by John Man

We care about Marco, as we care about Cinderella, because his story touches our collective unconscious.

Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and designed that product, remembers the early days.

Why the Founding Fathers thought banning Torture Foundational to the US Constitution

by Juan Cole

The Bill of Rights of the US Constitution is full of prohibitions on torture, as part of a general 18th century Enlightenment turn against the practice.

Israel, Academics and One-Sided Debates

by Steven Hochstadt

"I despair of ever seeing peace come to the one place where Jews are not a minority."

Prime Minister Abe’s history agenda is reshaping Japan

by Gavan McCormack

Few dare to challenge or oppose his radical program.

How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope

by William Black

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.

The CIA, Interrogation, and Feinstein’s Parting Shot

by Max Boot

"Feinstein’s report merely rakes up history and for no good purpose beyond predictable congressional grandstanding."

What You Didn’t Know About Ronald Reagan National Airport

by Thomas A. Foster

It sits on the remains of an old slavery planation.

Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers

by Adam Hochschild

Celebrating War Over and Over and Peace Once

#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don't: Slavery's Lasting Legacy

by Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan

The historical value of black life and the casual killing of Eric Garner.

How it all ends…

by David Bressan

The end of the world may come slowly, but it´s inevitable.

How our public schools are failing us

by Robert Zaretsky

A historian talks with his brother, a high school teacher. It’s discouraging.

What We Lost With the Loss of the New Republic

by David Greenberg

The magazine’s heterodox liberalism is what made it unique. And it’s that very voice that is being crowded out.

Roundup Top 10!

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