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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• 1/17/20
  

  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: LA Progressive
  1/9/20
  

  What Australia’s Fires Should Teach the USA: Be Alarmist!

  by Walter G. Moss

  Most importantly in this 2020 election year, the Australian tragedy tells us we should vote out all the human-caused climate-change deniers and minimizers. 

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• SOURCE: Cambridge Blog
  1/8/20
  

  The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People

  by Anne C. Bailey

  From my time as an undergraduate till my present position as a Professor of History at SUNY Binghamton, I have been frustrated that history seemed to belong to the few – the few who had made it their life’s work in the halls of academia, some of whom, as I was to learn, spoke more to each other than to the general public. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Nigeria Is Haunted by Its Civil War

  by Max Siollun

  The conflict’s legacy continues to hold the country captive, half a century later.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/16/20
  

  Another Disability Disaster in the Making

  by Jonathan M. Stein

  The Trump administration’s Social Security proposal would repeat one of Ronald Reagan’s most damaging mistakes.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/16/20
  

  Prohibition Was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance

  by Annika Neklason

  A repealed amendment and generations of Supreme Court rulings have left the constitutional regulation of private behavior in the past. Will it stay there?

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  1/13/20
  

  History and the Opioid Crisis

  by Jeremy Milloy

  In the 1970s, just as now, people living with and recovering from substance use disorders faced prejudice and mistreatment at the hiring stage and in the workplace itself.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/20
  

  The problem with a year of celebrating the 19th Amendment

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  Our entire understanding of the history of feminism is skewed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/10/20
  

  Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing.

  by David Edgerton

  It’s time to let the fantasy of the “British nation” die.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/14/20
  

  1619?

  by Sasha Turner

  What to the historian is 1619?

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/14/20
  

  The Job of the Academic Market

  by Rebecca S. Wingo

  Over three years, I dedicated 106.5 workdays to getting a job—while working another job. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/13/20
  

  Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy

  by Sarah Swedberg

  Kinzinger’s words fit within a long historical tradition of badly used disease metaphors that often accompany bad outcomes.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/15/20
  

  Video of the Week: Ken Burns on the ERA

  by Ken Burns

  Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/12/20
  

  How the President Became a Drone Operator

  by Allegra Harpootlian

  From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare

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• 1/10/20
  

  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
  1/5/20
  

  Why policymakers must act to preserve information freedom at home and abroad

  by Diana Lemberg

  A Cold War dichotomy pitting capitalism and democracy versus state control misreads history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/8/20
  

  War with Iran is not inevitable — but the U.S. must change course

  by Kelly J. Shannon

  The relationship between the countries, once friends and allies, has soured — because of U.S. aggression.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/8/20
  

  Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition

  by Reverend William Barber

  No one who has read US history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump but it also tells us how their undoing will inevitably come.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/7/20
  

  Why Did the U.S. Kill Suleimani?

  by Elizabeth Cobbs and Kimberly C. Field

  The attack illustrates America’s lack of a clear grand strategy — and why we need one immediately.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/9/20
  

  It’s 1856 All Over Again

  by Steve Inskeep

  Immigration. Race. Demographic change. Political demagogy. That year’s presidential race had it all. What can it tell us about 2020?