Roundup

Roundup Top 10!

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

Trump's Tuesday Night Massacre Brings the Watergate Comparisons Full Circle

by Kevin M. Kruse

While it's easy to reach for Richard Nixon as the closest point of comparison, Trump's firing of James Comey parallels Watergate in a couple key ways.

Comey's firing was Trump's nuclear option on Russia probe

by Julian Zelizer

Trump has stunned the political world once again by issuing the orders to remove one of the most important figures in this entire investigation.

Video of the Week: Pierre L'Enfant's great design for Washington

by Scott Rensberger

In 1886 France gave us the Statue of Liberty, one of our most famous icons. And, it was a Frenchman, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who helped create our capital city.

Video of the Week: Deborah Lipstadt Ted Talk

by Deborah Lipstadt

Behind the lies of Holocaust denial.

The American Revolution Was a Great Idea

by Mark Hemingway

The New Yorker questions if it really was.

Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916.

by George F. Will

As a 1916 billionaire, you would be materially worse off than a 2017 middle-class American.

How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

by Katherine Mooney

When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921.

Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is toxic: Psychologist

by John Gartner

Mental health professionals have a 'duty to warn' about a leader who may be unfit to serve.

What Trump Gets Wrong About NAFTA

by Jefferson Cowie

The deal is not the source of America's problems.

America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust

by Andrea Pitzer

When White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested on April 11 that atrocities carried out under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were in some way worse than those of Adolf Hitler, his statement placed him firmly in the bosom of a fine American tradition.

Civil War revisionism still shames America

by Manisha Sinha

Revisionists didn't believe ending slavery was worth a war.  If this is what Trump believes he should say so. 

How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars

by John W. Dower

When others act irrationally and violently they’re crazy. Not so when we do it.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Trump sees government as a series of deals. That’s because he’s an oligarch.

by Heather Cox Richardson

The anti-democratic spirit of the Trump administration is nothing new and nothing good.

Don’t Know Much About History

by Michael Winship

Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That's dangerous for him and all the rest of us.

Trump’s Crude, Ignorant Theory of American History

by Jeet Heer

His bizarre and mistaken beliefs about the past are a window into his mind—and serve his political agenda.

Freedom and Form: Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery

by Sam Ben-Meir

Our nation’s capital is hosting a painter who was a champion of the fine arts in all its forms as the Trump administration is trying to defund the NEA.

Trump’s Plan to End Europe

by David Frum

Why does the president want to undo the post–World War II order?

Time to Recall a Progressive ‘Truly Great’ First 100 Days

by Harvey J. Kaye

The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy.