Roundup

New York City has a Seegerfest, Celebrating Pete Seeger and his Reprehensible Politics

by Ronald Radosh

"Seeger’s blind spot was his persistent Stalinism, his decades-long love affair with the American Communist Party and his tendency to endorse and support almost every far left campaign that asked him to sign on."

From Lusitania to Malaysia Flight 17, a tale of disasters that sparked crises and wars

by J. Brooks Spector

What’s clear from history - if history is to repeat itself - is that the disaster is momentous, illustrative, and a game-changer.

Watergate Was the Only Serious Impeachment

by Albert R. Hunt

The impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the calls to do so for George W. Bush and now Barack Obama are petty and frivolous by comparison.

Obama lacks resolve on Ukraine

by Marc A. Thiessen

"We are seeing more resolve projected from the U.S. Mission to the United Nations than from the Oval Office."

How West should handle Russia

by Fareed Zakaria

The actions of the pro-Russian forces, who it appears shot down a civilian airliner, might seem at first glance to be crude and unsophisticated. But in one sense they're on the cutting edge.

Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

by Juan Cole

For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

by Tanvi Misra

'A Turban Makes Anyone An Indian'

Debunking the right’s enduring myth: The truth about Richard Nixon and the fight to overturn the 1960 election

by Paul Rosenberg

Nixon's allies and aides contested the '60 presidential election fiercely.

Requiem for the American Century

by Tom Engelhardt

Turning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph

Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy is failure

by Thomas Frank

Yes, we know, the crazy House. But we were promised hope and change on big issues. We got no vision and less action.

Visiting the 9/11 memorial and museum

by Adam Gopnik

The site contains more contradictions, unresolved and perhaps unresolvable, than any other eight acres in Manhattan.

America’s Long History of Immigrant Scaremongering

by Jamelle Bouie

Conservatives claim that the young immigrants crossing the border are diseased and pose a dangerous public health risk. It’s a sad American tradition.

The Consequences of the Israeli Invasion of Gaza

by Dennis Kucinch

There will be consequences for this invasion. The cycle of violence will widen.

Lessons From America's War for the Greater Middle East

by Andrew J. Bacevich

For well over 30 years now, the United States military has been intensively engaged in various quarters of the Islamic world. An end to that involvement is nowhere in sight.

Roundup Top 10!

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

White House Spokesperson Insists Obama Is The Most Transparent President In History, Because... Visitor Logs!

by Mike Masnick

From the you-said-what-now? dept.

The Colorblind Bind

by Richard Rothstein

Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action

What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President?

by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh

A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.

The History of Hollywood in Under 10 Minutes (Video)

A Video Crash Course in Cinema From 65 A.D. to the Present

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932

by Richard Kreitner

A depressingly relevant—if fascinating—exercise it is, to revisit a special issue about birth control The Nation published on January 27, 1932.