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Hot Topics - National Monuments - Impeachment - North Korea Video of the Week Beauty and the Beasts: why terrorists target history (NATO Review) Terrorist groups target cultural heritage, from the Taliban destroying the Bamyan Buddhas to the Daesh wrecking Palmyra. But why? This documentary looks at how terrorist groups use cultural heritage for control – but also for funding. Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on. Bit by bit, Trump is taking apart the New Deal's glorious legacy by Heather Cox Richardson With huge tax cuts projected to create a $1.5tn deficit, cuts to social security and Medicare will surely follow. How a reporting mistake nearly derailed the Watergate investigation — and how journalists recovered by Jon Marshall Today's journalists would do well to remember these lessons. Trump's 'Blue Water' Foreign Policy by Walter Russell Mead The administration's new security strategy is reminiscent of Pax Britannica. Liberals, make some distinctions by Jonathan Zimmerman 'Zero tolerance' didn't work in schools and it won't work with sexual misconduct. Behind the Pentagon Papers: The beginning of Nixon's end by Ken Hughes What was Nixon trying to hide? Here's a comprehensive timeline of his descent into paranoia and lawlessness. Lessons from an Unseemly Presidential Transition—From Hoover to F.D.R. by Amy Davidson Sorkin Hoover and FDR didn't tweet, but they did trade telegrams. Their exchange during the transition shows how power is exercised. Weighing up the evidence for the 'Historical Jesus' by Raphael Lataster Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? The Fantasy of an International Jerusalem by Martin Kramer One-hundred years ago, over a lunch, the internationalization of Jerusalem became irrelevant—and it remains so. China's Cover-Up by Orville Schell China has become "the People's Republic of Amnesia." Breaking News Stay Up to Date!  You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple:  Go Here!  What follows is a streamlined list of stories.  To see the full list:  Go Here! Incomes Grew After Past Tax Cuts Like Reagan's, but Guess Whose Reagan's tax cuts helped the richest Americans, those in the highest 1 percent of the income distribution. President Trump again falsely claims he's signed more bills than any president An analysis by GovTrack, a website that tracks bills in Congress, shows that Trump has signed the fewest bills into law at this point than any president in more than 60 years, back to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Deal With Japan on Former Sex Slaves Failed Victims, South Korean Panel Says The conclusions threaten the 2015 agreement over so-called comfort women, forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military from the 1930s until 1945. How Times Square Became the Home of New Years Eve As the crowd counted down the final fleeting seconds of 1907, workers used ropes and pulleys to slowly lower the 700-pound ball down the flagpole crowning New York's second-tallest building. Trump White House Saw Record Number of First-Year Staff Departures Administration's 34% first-year turnover rate is twice that of Reagan's 17% in 1981—the next-highest in the past 40 years The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies The document is from the Cold War. But the material it teaches is still being used today by Vladimir Putin's clandestine cadres. How LGBT history is being taught in California schools Fox News says it's controversial to speculate about the sexual preference of famous Americans from the past. Mike Huckabee Says Trump Is Like Churchill. Historians Disagree. Mr. Huckabee had just watched "Darkest Hour," a film about Churchill. It was, he wrote on Twitter, a reminder of "what real leadership looks like." This Georgetown freshman is 63, and attending the school that enslaved her ancestors Last year, Mélisande Short-Colomb learned about her ancestors' ties to the university when she was contacted by a genealogist tracing the descendants of slaves that Jesuits at Georgetown owned almost two centuries ago. Our film and video history is threatened by the rise of streaming video For film historians and film buffs the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.

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