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: Nursing Clio
  12/11/19
  

  Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire

  by Julia Fine

  The complex origin of Worcestershire sauce reveals the ways that imperial ideals and aspirations — both in Britain and the colonies — structured not only British food habits, but also the ways in which companies presented such foods to the public.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/12/19
  

  Donald Trump is attacking both Jews and the left with one clean blow

  by Kate Aronoff

  Anti-Semitism and anti-leftism share a violent and intimate history that is being revived under Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  A proposed EPA rule prioritizes industry profit over people’s lives

  by Mona Hanna-Attisha

  Limiting access to peer-reviewed science undermines the agency’s effectiveness.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/11/19
  

  How teachers advocating for their students could backfire

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  It reinforces the view of teachers as self-sacrificing servants instead of highly trained professionals.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/9/19
  

  A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

  by David W. Blight, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Kevin M. Levin

  The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  12/9/19
  

  The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  How America’s 16th president went from virtual obscurity to ending slavery.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/5/19
  

  Trump’s Legacy Is Being Written Right Now

  by Carolyn Eisenberg

  The articles of impeachment against the president will reverberate through time and set the terms of possible reforms.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/8/19
  

  Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong

  by Adam H. Domby

  On Friday, Haley declared the Confederate flag was “hijacked” by the racism of a single white supremacist terrorist in 2015, and that before then, “people saw it as service, sacrifice and heritage.” 

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  12/8/19
  

  50 years ago, LAPD raided the Black Panthers. SWAT teams have been targeting black communities ever since

  by Matthew Fleischer

  For one of the most dramatic moments in American policing, the raid on the Panthers headquarters is a relatively small historical footnote. But in the years since, SWAT has become a mainstay of modern policing.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/5/19
  

  Don’t Embrace Originalism to Defend Trump’s Impeachment

  by Saul Cornell

  Liberal legal scholars are at risk of falling into a right-wing trap.

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• SOURCE: NYR Daily
  12/3/19
  

  The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment

  by Garry Wills

  Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has been overseeing the impeachment hearings, is badly misrepresenting the Constitution when he says that the Congress is a co-equal branch of government with the presidency.

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• 12/6/19
  

  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: NY Times
  11/29/19
  

  The Forgotten Origins of Paid Family Leave

  by Mona L. Siegel

  In 1919, activists from around the world pressed governments to adopt policies to help working mothers.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/4/19
  

  Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history

  by Jared Orsi

  Heavy machinery grinds up the earth and removes vegetation as construction of President Trump’s vaunted border wall advances toward the oasis.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/5/19
  

  Pelosi did what no one else could

  by Julian Zelizer

  From the perspective of presidential history, this will become a major part of how we remember the term.

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  12/5/19
  

  The Turley Dilemma

  by Andrew Meyer

  If we look at Jonathan Turley's argument against impeachment, we can see the outlines of a dilemma that faces the president, the Republican Party, and by extension the entire country.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/3/19
  

  Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

  by William Sturkey

  The University of North Carolina’s settlement over a controversial statue is a subsidy for white nationalism.

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  12/4/19
  

  The History That Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide

  by Ryan Gingeras

  For a brief moment this fall, world interest fixed its attention to an event of the past. News that the U.S. Congress approved a formal resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was carried as a leading story by media outlets worldwide. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/5/19
  

  A Historic Crime in the Making

  by Rebecca Gordon

  400 years of history leading up to Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/4/19
  

  Calling Trump ‘the chosen one’ is a political act — not a theological statement

  by Wallace Best

  Claims about God’s plans for the United States often morph into justifications for wrongdoing.