Roundup

Roundup Top 10!

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

Why Britain Brexited

by Tom McTague

For decades, the country has struggled with the challenge facing the modern nation-state: how to balance control and influence.

The real danger of coronavirus

by Jessica Hauger

Chinese and Chinese American people have served as scapegoats for infectious disease outbreaks and sanitation failures in the United States and around the world to particularly alarming effect.

History Has Its Eyes on You, Senate, and if You Don't Know, Now You Know

by Jamie Stiehm

Aaron Burr famously foresaw it all, in the room where it happens one winter day in 2020: the Senate chamber.

The Senate has a chance to take back power Congress gave up long ago

by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

Calling witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial would revive the habit of investigating the executive branch.

Why I Fear a Moderate Democratic Nominee

by Ibram X. Kendi

Some Democrats are afraid of nominating a progressive, but a moderate may be more likely to ensure Trump’s reelection.

Abuse of Power is a Crime

by Andrew Meyer

As the supreme law of the land, the constitution guarantees us the right to live in a Republic. The basic embodiment of that entitlement is the assurance that our government contains no official with the arbitrary and unchecked powers of a king. 

Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise

by Walter Reich

You can manage a chronic disease, treat it, or prevent its complications—but you can rarely cure it.

The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

by Jill Lepore

Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

Dogmatism and truth

by Jim Sleeper

Words from 1619 that still resonate today. 

Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate

by Jacob S. Eder

While central questions about how to confront that legacy have been settled in the country’s history textbooks, they are still subject to controversy in villages and towns.

Are We All Australians Yet?

by Tom Engelhardt

In movie terms, think of Australia as the previews. For most of us, the main feature is still to come. The problem is that the schedule for that feature may not be found in your local paper.

Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death — Lessons from the People’s Historian

by Bill Bigelow 

Now is an especially good time to remember some of Howard Zinn’s wisdom.

Ike deserves more credit for bringing down McCarthy

by Dennis Lythgoe

“The best treatment of McCarthy is to ignore him. That is one thing he cannot stand.”

Missing Zinn

by Cornel West an Mordecai Lyon

On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade—including whether he would have voted for Bernie.

Strange Costumes of Capitol Rioters Echo the Early Days of the Ku Klux Klan - Before the White Sheets

by Kenneth Ladenburg

"Although costumes cannot tell us the entire story of a group or movement, they can provide a window into understanding how the groups and movements form and how their ideologies are spread."

Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary

by Nicole Hemmer

Right-wing media have been laying the groundwork for Trump’s acquittal for half a century.

How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

Roundup Top 10!

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