New perspectives on how history is made
Things are bad now. But our own history suggests that if we are not careful, they can get even worse.
The director of All the President's Men interviewed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for eight hours. He recorded everything.
Years ago the rightwing activist went after college professors for alleged bias. Now he's going after public school teachers (K-12).
People used to beat each other up in the Capitol routinely during the 1840s and 1850s.
For decades, the push to acknowledge women’s contributions gained traction, but progress may have flatlined.
By rejecting the offending students, the university reinforced the idea that students shouldn’t offend one another.
And the consequences of his crimes will be far more devastating.
The Justice Department’s lawyers are getting the founding fathers all wrong.
As commemorations of the Six Day War continue, now is as good time to question the special relationship and whether we have fallen into the trap George Washington warned about of entangling alliances.
How are U.S. presidents and FBI directors supposed to communicate?
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
Palestinian life has become increasingly expendable in Israel’s eyes.
Guess who is number 1?
Israel’s occupation is only made possible by unquestioning US support—but a day of reckoning is on the way.
In 1967 liberals celebrated Israel's victory.
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
“The public ignorance of our cultural heritage has alarming implications for the future of our nation.”
But it is the age of something.
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
The Arabs, it turns out, were more willing to cut a deal than she realized.
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