Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: The Tennessean
  accessed 2/19/19
  

  How George Washington would fix partisan politics in America today

  by Eli Merritt

  The United States' first President George Washington would prescribe rule of law and emotional intelligence to help us heal.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/16/19
  

  Do American Women Still Need an Equal Rights Amendment?

  by Susan Chira

  We’re already living in Phyllis Schlafly’s nightmare.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  2/18/19
  

  Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February?

  by Christina Proenza-Coles

  Even before the U.S. was a nation, African-Americans played crucial roles in nearly every stage of history in the new world. ‘Honoring’ that history in one month is a travesty.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/15/19
  

  The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers’

  by Colbert I. King

  Like dreamers of today, those black soldiers and sailors also had families and attended churches; some were enrolled in schools. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  2/19/19
  

  Winthrop's "City" Was Exceptional, Not Exceptionalist

  by Jim Sleeper

  There are compelling anthropological reasons why almost every society in history has invented “special covenant” and “origin” myths, or “constitutive fictions.” 

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• 2/14/19
  

  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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• SOURCE: Full Front with Samatha Bee
  2/6/19
  

  Video of the Week: "Real Black History"

  Professors Jelani Cobb, Jamilah Lemieux, Mychal Denzel Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, George Wallace, and Walter Naegle are here to remind you that Black History is American History and it doesn't fit in one tweet.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/14/19
  

  Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)

  by Tom Engelhardt

  An Obituary for the Republic

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  2/13/19
  

  The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendo

  by James Kirchick

  The accusation that Lindsay Graham is susceptible to blackmail is historically groundless, predicated upon the same flawed assumption most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would commit treason in order to avoid being outed.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/19
  

  The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/19
  

  Will Harvard continue to fail Asian Americans — or will it learn from the past?

  by Renee Tajima-Peña

  Harvard does not have an Asian American studies program. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/13/19
  

  When the Catholic Church’s prohibition on scandal helped women

  by Sara McDougall

  But why has scandal been systematically silenced in the church for so long? One answer lies in the medieval church's doctrine on scandal.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Accessed 2/13/19
  

  Is Email Making Professors Stupid?

  by Cal Newport

  It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it's strangling scholars' ability to think.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/19
  

  New York Needs Amazon

  by Kenneth T. Jackson

  History is clear: A city that rejects economic opportunity will lose its status as the center of the business world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/19
  

  Democrats are invoking FDR in their Green New Deal. It’s historically misleading.

  by Charles Lane

  Politically powerful as the invocation of America’s great collective deeds under Franklin D. Roosevelt might be, however, it is historically misleading — deeply so.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/11/19
  

  The Democrats’ dilemma: two parties in one

  by Niall Ferguson

  In their eagerness to recruit a new generation of young voters, the Democrats have — not for the first time in their history — admitted a faction of radical ideologues into their midst.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/19
  

  Trump’s Trail of Fears

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president, channeling his hero Andrew Jackson, continues to champion a particularly virulent form of reactionary white majoritarianism.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  2/12/19
  

  What the Paris Peace Conference can teach us about politics today

  by Anand Menon, Margaret MacMillan, Patrick Quinton-Brown

  Many of the challenges that concern us today—ethnic nationalisms, building the foundations for peace and prosperity around the globe, managing and containing war, or the future of Europe—were discussed in Paris a hundred years ago.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism

  by Jill Lepore

  Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/9/19
  

  Why this year's Black History Month is pivotal

  by Peniel Joseph

  In 2019, slavery's aftermath hovers over contemporary American race relations in deep and profoundly disturbing ways.