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• 9-6-17
  

  If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  People who knowingly hire undocumented workers are also lawbreakers.

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• 9-3-17
  

  Will Trump Upend the Plan to Replace Jackson with Tubman on the Front of the $20 Bill?

  by Jeremy J. Tewell

  She may not survive Trump extreme vetting.

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• 9-3-17
  

  One Thing We Should Learn from Harvey

  by Pearl Duncan

  We should pay more attention to gray swans. What’s that?

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• 9-3-17
  

  When Trump Denounces the “Fake Media” Anti-Semites Hear “Jew Media”

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  His attacks resemble Henry Ford’s. He too was embraced by anti-Semites.

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• 8-31-17
  

  To This German Historian, the Implications of Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio Are Ominous

  by Richard E. Frankel

  The message Trump is sending with his pardon of such a man.

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• 8-27-17
  

  We’ve Come to Think of the Anthropocene as Bad

  by Jan Kunnas

  But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.

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• 8-18-17
  

  What It Means to Censure a President

  by Rick Shenkman

  We've censured presidents before. No one remembers this.   If you want to make history, impeach a president. Censures don’t seem to mean much.

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• 8-20-17
  

  America Was Never White

  by Joe Krulder

  The alt-right’s rhetoric of Heritage is pure myth, a fabrication of a false past, creating memory where none existed.

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• 8-17-17
  

  Jeffersonian Democracy after Charlottesville

  by Matthew Crow

  We should think long and hard before we let enemies of the Republic claim one of its creators as their own.

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• 8-17-17
  

  We Found a Historian Who's Defending Trump's Comments on Charlottesville

  by HNN Staff

  His name is Larry Schweikart, professor of history at the University of Dayton and the author of " A Patriot's History of the United States." These are some of his tweets and retweets this week.

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• 8-20-17
  

  Just 43 Republicans Joining with Democrats Could End Donald Trump's Presidency.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  The end is nearer than you think. 

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• 8-20-17
  

  Why Does Donald Trump Keep Flirting With Disaster?

  by James David Robenalt

  It’s hopelessly naïve to believe he will change.

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• 8-27-17
  

  What Does Trump’s Election Say about American Culture and Values?

  by Walter G. Moss

  He represents the worst America has to offer.

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• 8-16-17
  

  What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?

  by Richard E. Frankel

  Those who marched under the Nazi banner and those who opposed them are not equal.

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• 8-16-17
  

  There Shouldn’t Be any Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee Anywhere

  by Ed Simon

  To remove Confederate memorials is not to white-wash history, far from it. It’s to finally remove the stain which concealed for too many Americans the reasons for why that hideous war was fought.

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• 8-27-17
  

  Mike Pence’s Big Decision

  by Richard Moe

  Where does his ultimate loyalty lie?

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• 8-15-17
  

  UPDATED: Charlottesville – HNN's Full Coverage

  by HNN Staff

  Tweets, Blog Posts, Op Eds  –  Everything.

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• 8-27-17
  

  Impeachment Isn’t a Job Best Left to Professionals. It’s a Job for the Politicians.

  by Greg Weiner

  And that’s exactly what the Founding Fathers intended.

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• 8-27-17
  

  Trump’s Problem (Aside from All the Other Ones)? He Wasn’t Elected with the Support of His Party.

  by Donne Levy

  Increasingly party elders are rebelling against him.

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• 8-27-17
  

  Trump’s Not the First GOP President with Weak Ties to the Party

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  But he might be the first to break it.