Roundup

The State of the Union shifts power to the president. Pelosi took it back.

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

The shutdown upended the ‘bully pulpit’ Trump’s predecessors have used.

The Green Book’s Black History

by Brent Staples

Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-American elites.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life

by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

The consequences of the shutdown nobody is talking about

Amnesia in Washington

by Tom Engelhardt

Afghanistan and the Implosion of America

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives

by Robert A. Caro

A historian reflects on chasing a Presidential paper trail.

Why Trump’s fearmongering about Muslims at the border misses the mark

by Randa Tawil

There are Muslims at the border. But they’ve been there since the late 19th century.

US Taxpayers Have Been Funding Big Business’s Wars for 233 Years

by Barbara G. Ellis

US corporations have exploited national pride to reap huge profits from taxpayer-funded wars.

Impeach Donald Trump

by Yoni Appelbaum

Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals--and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. 

Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

by Justin Rose

How the nation chooses to define greatness will have grave implications. 

The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses

by William S. Cossen

Colonizing indigenous land and constructing walls, both figurative and literal, to win public influence and political power is not a new story in American Catholic history.

Trump at the halfway mark: How will history judge our unconventional president?

by Arthur Herman

One historian defends Trump's legacy. 

Pence's shocking use of Martin Luther King's words

by Julian Zelizer

As we've seen, nothing about this administration resembles King's ideals.

Video of the Week: Rebecca Traister teaches Stephen Colbert about history's overlooked angry women

Traister, whose new book, Good And Mad, uncovers righteously angry and forgotten women throughout American history.

My Mother’s Secrets

by Helen Zia

She thought she was protecting her children by not telling us her harrowing tale of fleeing China.

The dangerous myth propping up Trump’s wall

by Melissa J. Gismondi

The president leverages a savage threat to white women to justify his pet project.

Economists Need to Add a Little History to Their Tool Kit

by Noah Smith

If those in the field spent more time studying the past there would be fewer surprises in the present.

The Women’s March is riddled with divisions. But that doesn’t mean feminism is in crisis.

by Lauren Haumesser

Since the early 19th century, the women’s movement in the United States has broken along the lines of race, class, age and religion. 

The Horror of Trump's Wounded Knee Tweet

by Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and David A. Chang

The president poked fun at a devastating massacre and reinforced racist, misogynistic stereotypes. 

Roundup Top 10!

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