Roundup

Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

by Juan Cole

For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Requiem for the American Century

by Tom Engelhardt

Turning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph

Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy is failure

by Thomas Frank

Yes, we know, the crazy House. But we were promised hope and change on big issues. We got no vision and less action.

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

by Tanvi Misra

'A Turban Makes Anyone An Indian'

Debunking the right’s enduring myth: The truth about Richard Nixon and the fight to overturn the 1960 election

by Paul Rosenberg

Nixon's allies and aides contested the '60 presidential election fiercely.

America’s Long History of Immigrant Scaremongering

by Jamelle Bouie

Conservatives claim that the young immigrants crossing the border are diseased and pose a dangerous public health risk. It’s a sad American tradition.

The Consequences of the Israeli Invasion of Gaza

by Dennis Kucinch

There will be consequences for this invasion. The cycle of violence will widen.

Lessons From America's War for the Greater Middle East

by Andrew J. Bacevich

For well over 30 years now, the United States military has been intensively engaged in various quarters of the Islamic world. An end to that involvement is nowhere in sight.

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What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President?

by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh

A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family

by Daniel Winunwe Rivers

While marriage was the ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the question of children and their parents was at the very heart of the case.

White House Spokesperson Insists Obama Is The Most Transparent President In History, Because... Visitor Logs!

by Mike Masnick

From the you-said-what-now? dept.

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Left

by Andrew Hartman

Intellectual historians are tackling foreign policy.

The Empire as Basket Case

by Tom Engelhardt

An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?

How will historians view us?

by Neal Gabler

Our era will be seen as a bleak period — another Gilded Age but worse.

Why we’re in a stalemate at home

by David Kaiser

The Democratic electoral strategy essentially accepts our economic state and our distribution of wealth as the best we can do.

Surprising Support for Israel, not Hamas

by Daniel Pipes

"Israel is getting support, or at least restraint and fairness, from unexpected sources."

Roundup Top 10!

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

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932

by Richard Kreitner

A depressingly relevant—if fascinating—exercise it is, to revisit a special issue about birth control The Nation published on January 27, 1932.

What’s Happening at the Border Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political One

by Matt Garcia

The Thousands of Children Fleeing Central America Have Nothing to Do With Our Ongoing Debate Over Immigration