Roundup Top 10!

The travel ban decision echoes some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history by Aziz Huq The logic SCOTUS used to uphold the travel ban would justify Japanese internment camps.

Pompeo on What Trump Wants by Walter Russell Mead An interview with Trump’s top diplomat on America First and ‘the need for a reset.’

It would be stupid to think we have moved on from war. Look around. by Margaret MacMillan The distinguished historian, this year’s Reith lecturer, argues we can never be complacent about global conflict.

Evangelical Fear Elected Trump by John Fea The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

A firsthand look at the horrors of immigration detention by Allyson Hobbs and Ana Raquel Minian A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century.

Nicaragua: We Will Always Be Confronted by U.S. Power by Rebecca Gordon Nicaragua at the barricades.

Charter schools damage public education by Diane Ravitch Once even Albert Shanker thought charter schools were a good idea. Then he realized his mistake.

Comparisons between US immigration policy and the Nazi period may not be helpful, but they are hard to avoid by David Tollerton It is the task of historians to draw parallels, however uncomfortable.

It Can Happen Here by Jim Sleeper Don’t underestimate the depths to which Donald Trump and his enablers will go to punish their political enemies.

That Time the U.S. Almost Went to War With Canada by Kevin Lippert And other tales from the Northern border.