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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• 4/18/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  Why Trump Won’t Stop Talking About Ilhan Omar

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president is following a Republican playbook that is now nearly two decades old.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/18/19
  

  Video of the Week: Mueller report 'devastating for the president'

  Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz says the Trump administration is using an old Nixonian strategy: "Redact, delay, redact, delay, double talk."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  How California is dumbing down our democracy

  by Max Boot

  It is a matter of national concern that the California State University (CSU) system is on the verge of further diluting its already inadequate history and government requirements.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Elizabeth Warren’s historically sound case against the filibuster

  by Julian Zelizer

  The Senate rule has long been used as a weapon against civil rights and other progressive legislation.

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• SOURCE: The Times
  4//14/19
  

  Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die

  by Niall Ferguson

  A new red army is out to silence debate. We must rise up and resist it.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/15/19
  

  Niall Ferguson isn’t upset about free speech. He’s upset about being challenged

  by Dawn Foster

  Powerful people used to express their views on others unopposed. Now their targets fight back, they find it intolerable.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/14/19
  

  What's behind the surging interest in Pete Buttigieg

  by Julian Zelizer

  In retrospect, his unexpected viability makes a lot of sense.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/19
  

  How historians got Nike to pull an ad campaign — in under six hours

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  The multinational corporation dropped its “Lost Cause” ads after historians pushed back.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  When Slaveowners Got Reparations

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  4/12/19
  

  Why Democratic Presidential Candidates Should Make Climate Change Their #1 Issue

  by Walter G. Moss

  Nothing else—including medical care, the economy, income inequality, immigration, racism, or the gender or race of a candidate—is more important.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  The return of ‘reefer madness’

  by Emily Dufton and Lucas Richert

  Both supporters and opponents of legalization are quick to use sensationalism to prove their points, stunting the pursuit of real research needed to determine cannabis’ social effects.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why you don’t need to be French or Catholic to mourn the Notre Dame fire

  by Kisha G. Tracy

  The cathedral is an important part of our shared cultural heritage.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake

  by John Ermer

  It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?

  by Paul Hockenos

  The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.

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• 4/12/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy.