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: Washington Post
  9/12/19
  

  When Texas was the national leader in gun control

  by Brennan Gardner Rivas

  How the land of gunslinger mythology regulated weapons to reduce violence

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/16/19
  

  Iran Might Be America’s Enemy, but Saudi Arabia Is No Friend

  by Andrew J. Bacevich

  Bacevich argues that after last week’s refinery attack, Trump should be careful about throwing America’s weight behind an unreliable “ally.”

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• SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal
  9/16/19
  

  What Ever Happened to We the People?

  by Adam Carrington

  "There's more to the the US Constiution than its amendments. Give the preamble some respect." 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  9/14/2019
  

  The Only Way to End ‘Endless War’

  by Stephen Wertheim

  To get serious about stopping endless war, American leaders must do what they most resist: end America’s commitment to armed supremacy and embrace a world of pluralism and peace.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  September 16, 2019
  

  The Oslo Accords’ Last Remnants Are Under Fire. Don’t Let Them Die.

  by Michael J. Koplow

  Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to apply sovereignty to Israel’s settlements throughout the West Bank after President Trump unveils his Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. But Mr. Netanyahu’s fortunes and Mr. Trump’s plan may not matter with the longstanding rules of the Oslo Accords.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 15, 2019
  

  No, record players won’t solve inequality

  by Mical Raz

  And other things Joe Biden got wrong about the education gap.  

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials in Germany

  by Susan Neiman

  Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/17/2019
  

  Joe Biden isn’t the only Democrat who has blamed black America for its problems

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Well-meaning liberals have long failed to recognize their own role in systems of oppression.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/17/19
  

  Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy

  by Bobby Cervantes

  Sylvie Laurent’s new book about the Poor Peoples Campaign is not far removed from the political scene today.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  9/12/19
  

  Why do we keep talking about Joe Biden's age?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Age is seen as a weakness that we unfairly ascribe to millions of people. And that prejudice enfeebles all of us, no matter how old we are.

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• 9/13/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

• 
• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/11/19
  

  The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Conflict was the engine of labor reform in the 1930s. And mass strikes and picketing, in particular, pushed the federal government to act.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

  by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

  Any desegregation plans must be a shared burden. But are we willing to take it on?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/10/19
  

  Why Southern white women vote against feminism

  by Angie Maxwell

  The often overlooked question that explains why discussion of a gender gap leads us astray.  

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/8/19
  

  The Electoral College was Terrible from the Start

  by Garrett Epps

  Epps doubts that Alexander Hamilton could foresee the consequences of an electoral college.

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• SOURCE: Des Moines Register
  August 27, 2019
  

  Seventy years after the Cold War began, the world faces an escalating nuclear threat

  by William Lambers

  The first Soviet atomic bomb test, on Aug. 29, 1949, spread political and psychological fallout that has been with us ever since.

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• SOURCE: The Activist History Review
  9/4/19
  

  Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike

  by Jacob Remes

  What might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/9/19
  

  How Africa is transforming the Catholic Church

  by Elizabeth A. Foster

  Pope Francis’s visit to Africa highlights the growing trend toward decolonizing Catholicism

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  09/10/19
  

  On 9/11, Luck Meant Everything

  by Garrett M. Graff

  When the terrorist attacks happened, trivial decisions spared people’s lives—or sealed their fate.