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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week This week: Cervantes, Harriet Tubman, Reagan movie, a gay bookstore and more.

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About This week: Niall Ferguson leaves Harvard, Mary Beard has a new show on TV, Tim Naftali on being presidential, and lots more.

Trump's 'America First' has ugly echoes from U.S. history by Susan Dunn Donald Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan "America First," the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.

African-American Voters Have an Understandable Reason to Support Hillary Clinton by Eric Foner “[F]or black Carolinians, the challenge today seems to be holding on to gains that are under assault rather than seeking further progress.

Donald Trump, our terrifying Lone Ranger: The GOP front-runner acts like the president is above the law by Rick Perlstein Can old-fashioned democracy survive when the law is reduced to one man's will?

What Bernie Sanders Should Learn From Eugene McCarthy by Julian E. Zelizer In 1968, the Democratic insurgent refused to support the establishment nominee—and it was disastrous.

Not Everything Is Munich and Hitler by David A. Bell Is our culture suffering from an excess of historical awareness?

The Real Meaning of Donald Trump by Tom Engelhardt He’s a Sign of American Decline (Just Not in the Way You Think)

What's wrong with our politics? What Thomas Frank & Steve Fraser think. by Beverly Gage In a book review, Beverly Gage critiques two books: Thomas Frank's "Listen Liberal" and Steve Fraser's "The Limousine Liberal."

The Party of Lincoln in the Time of Trump by Sidney Blumenthal The Republicans are now going the way of the Whigs—by embracing the politics that helped destroy them.

Who should Trump and Clinton pick as running mates? This research says it doesn’t really matter. by Christopher J. Devine and Kyle C. Kopko Much of what you’ve been told about the importance of the usual factors is wrong.

Who is “victorious?”: transformed American meanings of war and power by Louis René Beres What if there is no longer a meaningfully determinable way to calculate victory and defeat?