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: New York Times
  8/8/2019
  

  ‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party

  by Barbara Ransby

  You can credit social movements for that.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  August 6, 2019
  

  The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches

  by Robert Myers

  Cultural language can impact gun violence. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 6, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court’s illiberal legacy

  by Shahrukh Khan

  Why liberals shouldn’t put too much faith in the nation’s highest court.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 5, 2019
  

  How the black press helped pave the way for gay rights

  by Timothy Stewart-Winter

  The Chicago Defender’s LGBTQ legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 4, 2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

  by Kyle Longley

  He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2019
  

  How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso

  We invariably find ourselves locked in conflict with dangerous men intoxicated with their own sense of mission, and drunkenly believing that the only problem with the past is that we ever departed from it at all.

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  8/6/2019
  

  Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jews’ long-standing security in the United States has relied on a hard-won consensus now being undermined by an unholy alliance.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/7/2019
  

  Toni Morrison and the ‘Human Project’

  by Robert Greene II

  Through her novels and essays, Morrison helped inspire a generation of writers to reckon with American history.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Politics
  August 4, 2019
  

  Fukuyama's 'The End of History?' -- 30 Years Later

  by Peter Berkowitz

  The current state of classical liberalism in America.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  August 4, 2019
  

  The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  Attacks like that in El Paso are not an end in themselves. They are a call to arms, toward something much more frightening.

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• SOURCE: HistPhil
  July 30, 2019
  

  More Lore Than Law: The Dartmouth College Case And The Myth Of The Purely Private College

  by John R. Thelin

  The blurred line between public and private education.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  August 4, 2019
  

  Asian women fought the West’s slave trade. And then they were written out of history

  by Julia Flynn Siler

  Asian women opposed slavery in the west. Read their story.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  August 5, 2019
  

  The Most Dangerous American Idea

  No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  August 4, 2019
  

  Historian: Don't blame us for the mess we're in

  by Jason Steinhauer

  A historian stands up for the field in light of recent attacks. 

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• 8/1/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

• 
• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/19
  

  Historian Tim Naftali Discusses Recording Of Reagan's Racist Comments Made To Nixon

  NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian Tim Naftali about his article in The Atlantic describing a tape President Nixon had of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan making racist remarks.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/1/19
  

  Expecting Ireland to be servile is part of a long British tradition

  by Richard McMahon

  The Brexit crisis is another example of how the UK so often ignores the consequences of its conduct on its neighbour.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/1/9
  

  How music took down Puerto Rico’s governor

  by Verónica Dávila and Marisol LeBrón

  Underground music overcame censors to gain popularity and political power.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/28/19
  

  The death of the Robert Mueller myth and the liberal ‘field of dreams'

  by James Sleeper

  Those who longed for a quick, dramatic Trump takedown have seen their hopes crushed. Time to face the truth.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/31/19
  

  Don't just revile Amy Wax--rebut her

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Outrage does not and cannot refute what she said -- only facts can do that.