Roundup

There’s Nothing Un-American About Donald Trump

by Greg Grandin

Trump’s “Midnight in America” speech at the Republican National Convention could’ve been lifted directly from the Puritans.

Mr. Trump, You’re No Richard Nixon

by Rick Perlstein

Mr. Trump, I’ve studied Richard Nixon. And you’re no Richard Nixon.

Donald Trump and America’s Moral Authority

by Mary L. Dudziak

Trump's statement that the US is hardly in a position to lecture Turkey's Erdogan on civil liberties is astounding.

The RNC Is a Disaster—So Why Can’t I Sleep at Night?

by D.D. Guttenplan

A book on Hitler’s mass appeal explains why we can’t underestimate Trump.

With money from white supremacists, black activists have been funding “Back to Africa” movements for centuries

by Keisha N. Blain

One man’s GoFundMe dares racists to put their money where their mouth is.

What Makes a War Hero, According to History

by Jack Doyle

Yes, Donald, even prisoners of war have become heroes for having spent time in captivity.

Roundup Top 10!

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

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Ten Reasons Why Trump Could Win

by Victor Davis Hanson

With four more months until Election Day, be prepared for chills and spills.

Are Clinton and Trump the Biggest Liars Ever to Run for President?

by David Greenberg

A short history of White House fabulists.

The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government.

by Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann

They got Trump.

The Dark History of the Olympics

by Mary Pilon

A survey of the modern Olympic Games recalls unflattering aspects long before doping and gender testing.

The Goldwater era changed the GOP, so could the Trump nomination

by David M. Shribman

Whether Trump wins or loses, he could bring white working-class voters into the GOP. 

A World Numbed to Mass Murder

by Max Boot

“Terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.”

Nice, France, Attack: A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers

by Juan Cole

Just as a nihilistic criminal such as a serial killer cannot easily be prevented from striking again, so a lone wolf and small-cell terrorist cannot easily be forestalled from wreaking havoc.

MLK Would Never Shut Down a Freeway, and 6 Other Myths About the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter

by Jeanne Theoharis

Calling out these myths is more than setting the historical record straight. The “propaganda of history,” as W.E.B. Du Bois reminded us a century ago, becomes a way of “giving us a false but pleasurable sense of accomplishment”—for soothing and justifying inaction in the face of persistent racial inequality.

How Tony Blair fumbled Iraq’s child mortality statistics

by Michael Spagat

At a dramatic moment in Tony’s Blair’s testimony before the Iraq Inquiry back in 2010, he argued that the invasion had saved the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqi children who would otherwise have perished at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. But Blair was wrong.

Culloden: why truth about battle for Britain lay hidden for three centuries

by Murray Pittock

The Battle of Culloden of 1746, where British troops defeated the Scottish Jacobite army for the final time near Inverness, has long been mis-represented for political purposes.

Roundup Top 10!

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