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 Bulwark
  4/2/2020
  

  Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good

  by William Kristol

  There is no going back.

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  4/2/2020
  

  The Liberal Arts, the People, and the Pandemic

  by Jonathan W. Wilson

  Other than professional experts, the Americans who understand the crisis best—regardless of political ideology—are those who have a well-rounded imagination.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/2/2020
  

  The Drama and Appeal of ‘Tiger King’ Is a Century in the Making

  by Andrew Robichaud

  Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin have hooked quarantined Americans because of what the series says about themselves.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/1/2020
  

  America Is Ailing—and Leading the World

  by Adam Tooze

  The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/3/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Test Is Too Hard for Trump

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president joins Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan as a leader who failed when it mattered most.

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• 4/3/2020
  

  Roundup Top Ten for April 3, 2020

  The week's top ten op-eds by historians from around the web.

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• SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
  4/1/2020
  

  Anti-Intellectualism is Killing Us

  by Scott Laderman

  For decades the Republican Party has railed against expertise, painting it as a conspiratorial assault on so-called “conservative” values and the millions of Americans who embrace them.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  4/1/2020
  

  For More Than A Century, Americans Fine-Tuned The Rules Of Democracy. Why Have We Stopped?

  by Gregory P. Downs

  The United States has survived not by keeping the same system but by transforming its rules at crucial moments.

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  4/2/2020
  

  The Internet Archive Chooses Readers

  by Karin Wulf

  To elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroes

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  Tracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  If We Want to Stop Covid-19, We Can’t Forget the Incarcerated

  by Jessica L. Adler

  Imprisoned people are especially at risk, just as they were during the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/1/2020
  

  Yes, Covid-19 Treatment Must Be Free for All. But That’s Not Enough.

  by Mical Raz

  Carving out exceptions for treating specific illnesses undermines health.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/26/2020
  

  The Lone Woman of Kokura

  by Nyri A. Bakkalian

  Who was the Lone Woman in the Kokura Castle town ruins that day in 1866? We don’t know her name, though we know where she died in Kokura.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/29/2020
  

  Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End

  by William J. Astore

  Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore makes it so vividly clear, recalling a prophesy of his own dad, that if demobilization remains our position in the tough times to come, we're going to be in deep, deep trouble.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/30/2020
  

  The Conservative Campaign Against Safety

  by Lawrence Glickman

  How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/30/2020
  

  No, Mr. President, Healthcare Workers Aren’t Stealing Masks. You Failed Them.

  by Deborah Levine

  We needed mass production of basic gear, because our affinity for high-tech innovation has left us with shortages.

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• SOURCE: Verso
  3/31/2020
  

  Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before: A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery

  by Owen Hatherley

  Owen Hatherley reflects on the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths.

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• SOURCE: Content Magazine
  3/31/2020
  

  The Trouble with Triscuits

  by Charles Louis Richter

  Where did the name of this popular snack come from? An exercise in historical reasoning.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  3/30/2020
  

  Conservative Critics of Trump’s Coronavirus Conduct

  by Walter G. Moss

  When it comes to criticizing the behavior of Donald Trump, many of the leading conservative critics have been spot on.