Roundup

The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

by Musa al-Gharbi

The Democratic Party is in crisis. Demographics will be unlikely to save them. If anything, the trend seems to be going in the other direction.

What Is a Populist?

by Uri Friedman

And is Donald Trump one?

Trump Can't Sell Fear Unless the Public Buys It

by Ira Chernus

Presidential fear mongering is not rare, nor a stark contrast to the past. It is the common pattern of the past in all living Americans' memory.

America’s mass deportation system is rooted in racism

by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Historically speaking, immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of governance in U.S. law and life.

Video of the Week: James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials

“Confederate Monuments: Modest Proposals” was part of the American Civil War Museum’s 2017 annual symposium, “Lightning Rods of Controversy: Civil War Monuments Past, Present, and Future.”

The surgeon who led the way for MLK and others

by David T. Beito

His name was T.R.M. Howard and he was the richest black man in Mississippi. (He was also on J. Edgar Hoover’s list of enemies.)

The Myth of Meritocracy

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Race and ethnicity have always mattered in college admissions. But they mattered in different ways at different times.

Infographic of the Week: American Women in War

Their Evolving Role

Roundup Top 10!

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

Video of the Week: Harriet Tubman

by Scott Rensberger

See Harriet Tubman as you haven't seen her before.

The Antidemocratic Origins of Fake News

by Jeremy C. Young

The cynical philosophy of those who peddled false information in the 1910s and 1920s can help us understand why fake news is not only bad for the public but also antithetical to a democratic culture.

How We Got Here

by Danny Sjursen

The Misuse of American Military Power and The Middle East in Chaos

A White House Initiative to Defeat Radical Islam

by Daniel Pipes

The overall goal of the White House Commission on Radical Islam should be to bring the American people together around a common understanding of the enemy's nature, how that enemy can be defeated, and specifics to accomplish this objective.

Fake News and the Founding Fathers

by John Avlon

This administration’s attacks on the press are directed at anyone who dares to disagree or try to hold them accountable. Nothing could be further from the example George Washington set.

History in a Time of Crisis

by Paul A. Kramer

What role should historians play in countering authoritarian politics?

Is compromise possible on school vouchers?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos actually represent different strands of the voucher movement, which used to attract liberals and conservatives alike.

The Populist Ploy

by Win McCormack

Revisiting Irving Kristol, the conservative thinker who predicted Trump’s rise.

Quit calling Donald Trump an isolationist. He’s worse than that.

by Stephen Wertheim

What Trump really believes is far more dangerous.

Video of the Week: The Japanese Internment Camps, 75 Years Later

A moving series of videos remind us of the harm inflicted on Japanese Americans by FDR's order sending them to internment camps.

Trump's America and the rise of the authoritarian personality

by Magnus Linden

Since the horror of Hitler’s Holocaust, psychologists have investigated why certain individuals appear more prone to follow orders from authority figures, even if it means that they have to sacrifice humanitarian values while doing so.