Roundup

Donald Trump, Mesmerist

by Emily Ogden

Like the mesmerists, what Mr. Trump is actually selling is anti-mesmerism. The mesmerists were offering a fantasy of turning the tables on con men by exposing their tricks.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Why I Didn’t Sign Up to Defend the International Order

by Stephen M. Walt

The world needs new institutions for a new era—and nostalgia for a past that never existed won't help.

The Origins of Our Second Civil War

by Victor Davis Hanson

Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861?

Conservatism's Hidden History

by Daniel Pipes

Turns out conservatism as an intellectual idea goes back to the 15th century. 

Trouble still ahead for GOP

by Julian Zelizer

It is not clear that the economy will be enough to save the Republicans from the damage that President Trump has caused them through his time in office.

Donald Trump has been wrong on trade for 30 years

by Andrew C. McKevitt

We didn't need a trade war with Japan in the 1980s. We don't need one with China today.

For President Trump, national security is all about … him

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Trump is trying to protect himself, not America.

The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line

by Colin Woodard

The key difference is among regional cultures tracing back to the nation’s colonization.

German-American history, largely erased, has lessons for our anti-immigrant era

by Erika Schelby

Germans are the largest ancestry group in the U.S., but their identity has been largely disappeared. Here’s why.

No, the GOP wasn't the party of civil rights in the 1960s

by Kevin Kruse

"If you have to go back to the 1860s or even the 1960s to claim the "party of civil rights" mantle, you're clearly grasping at straws."

What happened the last time a President chose America's enemies over its friends

by Manisha Sinha

The president was Andrew Johnson.

Mike Pence’s Damning Indictment of Donald Trump

by Conor Friedersdorf

Eight years ago, the vice president set out his standards for judging a president. His boss fails to measure up.

Roundup Top 10!

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

The Parallels Between Nixon’s Downfall and Trump’s Future

by Colleen M. O'Connor

Two problems, tapes and taxes, are common to both scandals.

How Republicans became anti-democratic

by Damon Linker

Republicans are proving themselves to be enemies of democratic governance.

Putin is weak. Europe doesn’t have to be.

by Walter Russell Mead

Moscow is a sideshow. The real dangers come from within the continent.

Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars

by Juan Cole

But to have the US and Iran rattling sabers does not in the least benefit the American people.

The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling

by Peter Beinart

Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.

Is Trump a danger -- or just 'incompetent' and a 'buffoon'?

by Julian Zelizer

Trump's critics aren't paranoid.