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: Tonic
  6-23-17
  

  Mitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery

  by Jesse Hicks

  He received treatments as a child at FDR’s Warm Springs. But turned his back on the March of Dimes when they came calling.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-24-17
  

  Sacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Fifty years ago, some Americans blamed the “rioters” who rebelled and were killed by the police in nearly 130 cities for their own deaths.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6-24-17
  

  Why did ISIS blow up the mosque in Mosul?

  by Kishwar Rizvi

  It was following a tradition established by Saudi Arabia.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  6-22-17
  

  Comparing Donald Trump to Richard Nixon is unfair — to Nixon

  by Max Boot

  Watergate was about a domestic political break-in. Kremlingate is far darker and more consequential.

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• 6-22-17
  

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-19-17
  

  Donald Trump’s Half-Baked Cold War Revival in Cuba Is the Worst of Both Worlds

  by Ronald Radosh

  The change will push the remaining American tourists into the cruise-ship tours that work to give travelers a distorted rosy picture of Cuba.

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• 6-20-17 (accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: The White Artist Who Painted Black Folk

  by Scott Rensberger

  Her name was Ruth Starr Rose. You haven’t heard of her for a reason.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-19-17
  

  How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?

  by Christy Ford Chapin

  The problem with American health care is not the care. It’s the insurance.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-19-17
  

  American slavery: Separating fact from myth

  by Daina Ramey Berry

  People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-17-17
  

  Who in the White House Will Turn Against Donald Trump?

  by David Remnick

  While Trump’s personality is different from Nixon’s, there is little evidence that the show of bogus loyalty performed last week has any basis in real life.

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• SOURCE: The Weekly Standard
  6-16-17
  

  The Woodstein Tapes

  by Max Holland

  The director of All the President's Men interviewed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for eight hours. He recorded everything.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-17-17
  

  Watergate Fueled Conspiracy Theories, Too

  by David Greenberg

  Both today and back in the 1970s, defenders of the president wove wacky tales to explain away wrongdoing. And the myths just kept going.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  6-17-17
  

  Mike Lee’s bad history: Utah senator’s book is an ignorant hodgepodge concocted to justify the modern GOP

  by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

  Sen. Mike Lee's terrible book tries to reboot some of America's founding fathers as modern-day Republicans.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-17-17
  

  The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture

  by Adrienne LaFrance

  People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.

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• SOURCE: Philly.com
  6-15-17
  

  David Horowitz's code of ethics would muzzle teachers

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Years ago the rightwing activist went after college professors for alleged bias.  Now he's going after public school teachers (K-12). 

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• SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News
  6-17-19
  

  Can a divided America survive?

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  Things are bad now. But our own history suggests that if we are not careful, they can get even worse.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-15-17
  

  Violence against members of Congress has a long, and ominous, history

  by Joanne B. Freeman

  People used to beat each other up in the Capitol routinely during the 1840s and 1850s.

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• SOURCE: S-USIH
  5-25-17
  

  Can Presidents Shape An Entire Era?

  by Michael Todd Landis

  Trump and the Possibility of a New “Age of Jackson”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-15-17
  

  Is This the End of the Crusade for Gender-Equal Curricula?

  by Elizabeth Weingarten

  For decades, the push to acknowledge women’s contributions gained traction, but progress may have flatlined.

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• 7-15-17
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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