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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• 11/8/19
  

  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: Madman of Chu
  11/1/19
  

  There Are Only Two Ways that this Ends

  by Andrew Meyer

  If the electorate deems the president fit to serve despite all of his abuses of power, then we will enter a new phase of our history as a nation.

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• SOURCE: Quillette
  10/27/19
  

  The Return of the ‘Witch Hunt’ Analogy

  by Tony Fels

  Clearly, whatever deficiencies exist in the Democrats’ handling of the impeachment inquiry, they pale next to the legal inadequacies of the witch hunting era.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11/7/19
  

  One Big Thing the Dems Get Wrong About Warren

  by John F. Harris

  The political establishment loves the center. But it’s the radicals who end up writing history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/7/19
  

  Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/6/19
  

  Why a 1972 Northern Ireland murder matters so much to historians

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  A recent trial is an example of when historical truth and legal accountability diverge.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/7/19
  

  The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines

  by Matthew Teutsch

  "Gaines...wrote about the people he knew. The land he knew. Their struggles. Their joys. Their lives."

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  11/5/19
  

  Remembering The Ad Hoc Committee for Handicapped Access (AHCHA): Against Erasure of Disability History At the University Of Chicago

  by Steph Ban

  "The irony of placing a reminder of disability history in a stairwell does not escape me nor does it surprise me."

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  11/4/19
  

  As racism row rumbles on, is it time to retire the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’?

  by Michael Wood

  The history world has been afire with a debate about Anglo-Saxon studies. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/3/19
  

  Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Who not in Blunderland could ever have imagined that a bankrupted casino magnate and reality TV host might essentially -- like his lawyer recently -- butt-dial us all into a new form of (un)reality?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11/7/19
  

  Watching My West Point Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire

  by Danny Sjursen

  A New Generation of West Pointers Joins America’s Hopeless Wars

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/6/19
  

  Plutarch and the Parallel Lives of Donald Trump

  by Lance Morrow

  If Plutarch studied American presidents, to which would he compare and contrast the 45th?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/1/19
  

  The Spirit That Brought Down the Berlin Wall Lives On

  by Robert Cohen

  Bloodless revolutions from Armenia to Lebanon are about ending the fatalism corrupt rule engenders.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/4/19
  

  The Wagner Act and Why It's A Liberal President Is Not Sufficient To Create Democratic Change

  by Jamelle Bouie

  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/5/19
  

  The History Behind the Guy Fawkes Masks and Protest

  by Sara Barrett

  All around the world, protesters wear Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identity in service of a cause.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  How Einstein Became the First Science Superstar

  by Ron Cowen

  A century ago, astronomers proved the general theory of relativity — and made him a global household name.

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  11/4/19
  

  The Problem With How We Teach History

  by Rachel Burstein

  Students are still often building up to what they have been told is true, rather than finding truth on their own.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  November 3, 2019
  

  Presidential Candidates Crave the Spotlight. 200 Years Ago That Was Taboo.

  by David Botti

  For a century, presidential candidates were discouraged from openly campaigning - lest they appear power hungry like the British king America revolted against. Here's why that all changed. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/19
  

  How Richard Nixon captured white rage — and laid the groundwork for Donald Trump

  by Scott Laderman

  Fifty years ago, Nixon gave us the “silent majority.” Today, Trump proudly declares himself its standard-bearer.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/4/19
  

  How the PLO served U.S. interests during the Iranian hostage crisis

  by Jørgen Jensehaugen

  Open communication and negotiation can produce concrete benefits.