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19 Presidents in a Row Promoted Social and Environmental Programs to Benefit Ordinary Americans. And then Came Donald Trump.
Ronald L. Feinman
History shows Trump is out of step with all of his predecessors, both Democrat and Republican, since Teddy Roosevelt.
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Gina Haspel Has Only Just Now Concluded that Waterboarding Is Torture?
William Schroderlives
It’s been used for thousands of years. It’s always been torture.
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What Was so Remarkable About that Royal Wedding Sermon
Ed Simon
And why it should be regarded as the best sermon of this young century.
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The Forgotten Men who Shaped the Arab Revolt
Philip Walker
No. T. E. Lawrence wasn’t the only key European player.
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We Used to Think Only Other Countries Suffered Crises of Political Legitimacy.
Richard F. Miller
Now we have our own.
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Russia’s Our Enemy Again. What Should We Do?
Michael Creswell
A good place to begin is with our postwar Cold War strategy.
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Review of “Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary,” Edited by Laurence Bogoslaw
Walter G. Moss
Unlike many U. S. commentators, “they do not impugn his character, honesty, or intelligence.”
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Review of “Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey Through Peace, War, Revolution, & Terror” by Richard G. Robbins Jr.
Ron Briley
The fascinating story of a figure who straddled Imperial and Soviet Russia, shedding light upon modern Russian history and the legacy of autocracy which continues under Vladimir Putin.
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Worried About the Effect of Modern Technology on Kids?
Margaret M. Cassidy
Well, that’s an old story and here’s why.
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Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
Bruce Chadwick
You can answer Shakespeare. But a new play in New York swears it's Marlowe.
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Remember the Late Sun Myung Moon? A Remnant of His Church Is Now Pro-Trump.
Matthew Bowman
It’s run by his son. (But Moon’s wife objects.)
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The Inaccurate and Dangerous Premise of the GOP Farm Bill
Rachel Louise Moran
Once again opponents of aid to the poor are claiming they’re poor because they’re lazy and that aid is a luxury that undermines the work ethic.
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Tabloid Photographers Are Hounding the Royals, but They Have a History of Using Each Other
Jennifer Tucker
The modern monarchy’s power depends after all on its public image.
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The Misleading Rationales for Gina Haspel's Nomination as CIA Director
John Prados
They include her promise not to torture people.
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Mike Pence Is No Jerry Ford
Ronald L. Feinman
If Trump goes, we won’t be able to say our long national nightmare is over.
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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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"War Hath No Fury Like a Non-Combatant" – Charles Edward Montague
There's No There There
The Cold War brought unprecedented insecurity to the U.S. Let's not repeat that history.
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What’s Missing from the Centenary Celebration of Women’s Suffrage in Britain?
John Edmonds
No one’s talking about the violence.
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The Shameful Practice of Buying and Selling Babies Doesn't Only Happen Overseas, but Here in the US, too
Janet Golden
In what might be called infant economics, here’s a brief history of the black market baby trade.
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The Former Community Organizer and Activist Who Became a Historian
Erik Moshe
An Interview with Georgetown University’s Maurice Jackson.
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War Was Avoided During the Cuban Missile Crisis, but One Man Died
Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias
It’s worth remembering his story, too, to show us the danger of superpower conflict.
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Review of Tony Fels’s “Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt”
Ron Briley
Fels claims New Left historians let a focus on race, class and gender bias their studies, but our reviewer says this is an oversimplification of a more complicated story.
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What People Are Talking About
Links to important discussions about topics in the news this week.
