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: Reclaim
  3/21/19
  

  An Economist with a Heart

  by Hedrick Smith

  Alan Krueger, the Princeton professor and economic adviser to two presidents who died last weekend, was one of those rare economists who break out of the ivory tower and plunge restlessly into the real world

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  3/24/19
  

  Why Historians Are Like Tax Collectors

  by Matthew Gabriele

  Studying the past - and then, importantly, talking about it with an audience - is about revealing the mess behind the myth, the story behind what we think we know. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Democrats are holding their convention in Milwaukee. The city’s socialist past is an asset.

  by Tula Connell

  With the announcement of Milwaukee as the site of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, political opponents wasted no time in raising the specter of the city’s socialist past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

  by Martha S. Jones

  It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/21/19
  

  Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction

  by Ed Kilgore

  As in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, one party is committed to the use of federal power to vindicate voting rights, and the other is opposed.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/24/19
  

  What Mueller's probe has already revealed about Trump

  by Julian Zelizer

  The price of this entire process has already been high.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/25/19
  

  Why Trump’s recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory is significant

  by Dina Badie

  Given the dimensions of America’s global influence, U.S. recognition could lend some legitimacy to Israel’s controversial annexation policy  

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/25/19
  

  How Experts and Their Facts Created Immigration Restriction

  by Katherine Benton-Cohen

  Facts have a history, and we ought to admit it.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/25/19
  

  ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

  by Kali Holloway

  These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  3/21/19
  

  Trump Can Be Indicted – Here's the Constitutional Proof

  by Mark Medish

  Impeachment by Congress is one way to remove a president from office. Indictment and prosecution for a federal felony provide a separate avenue.

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• 3/21/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/21/19
  

  Citizenship in the Age of Trump

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Death By a Thousand Cuts

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery

  by Jelani Cobb

  Most of the men who committed these recent acts of terror composed manifestos. A sense of history turning on the fulcrum of a single man’s actions is a theme within them. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/19
  

  The first time the U.S. considered drafting women — 75 years ago

  by Pamela D. Toler

  As legislative debate about drafting women in 1945 shows, if the military need is great enough, women will be drafted no matter how uncomfortable lawmakers are with the prospect.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  Poor criminal defendants need better legal counsel to achieve a just society

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  Why we must fulfill the promise of a famous Supreme Court decision to truly achieve criminal justice reform.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Nazis Have Always Been Trolls

  by Adam Serwer

  Historically, they rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Native children benefit from knowing their heritage. Why attack a system that helps them?

  by Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp

  For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act has protected the best interests of Native children and helped preserve the integrity of tribal nations across the United States.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3/20/19
  

  Video of the Week: DNA Reveals Diversity Amid the Crew of 16th Century Battleship

  An investigation of the DNA of the crew of King Henry VIII's battleship "Mary Rose," which sank in 1545. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/19/19
  

  When bad actors twist history, historians take to Twitter. That’s a good thing.

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  Engaging with the public isn’t pedantry; it’s direct engagement.