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
  10/17/19
  

  The 19th amendment was a crucial achievement. But it wasn’t enough to liberate women.

  by Holly Jackson

  It’s time to fight for the original and unfulfilled goals of the women’s movement.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/13/19
  

  Americans have spent 230 years trying to rein in presidential misconduct

  by James M. Banner Jr.

  While freighted with danger, impeachment is the only instrument offered by the Constitution to bring an administration otherwise out of direct reach of the law to book.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/16/19
  

  The Lesson History Teaches Is Tragic

  by Robert Zaretsky

  The idea that we can avoid the mistakes of the past is misguided.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/16/19
  

  The Case for Populism

  by Maria Schmidt

  As citizens of a free country in the heartland of Europe, we have served as gatekeepers between East and West for a thousand years. We hope to do so for a thousand more.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/15/19
  

  Smithsonian Museums Are Supposed to Tell the American Story. So Where's the One Dedicated to Latinos?

  by Julissa Arce

  The harm of not being treated as valuable members of this country can be seen in the rise of anti-Latino hate crimes, as well as in the higher rate of depression among Latino youth than their white peers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day should mean honoring migrants’ rights

  by Liz Ellis

  People must have a human right to migrate and to move across borders that historically crossed them.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/13/19
  

  Climate protests have roots that go deep into the rich history of British social change

  by Lucy Robinson

  Extinction Rebellion draws on a radical lineage that brings together a range of beliefs and ages.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/13/19
  

  American Brexit

  by Tom Engelhardt

  It’s Not Just Britain Headed for the Subbasement of Imperial History.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10/17/19
  

  The Greening of the New Deal

  by Steve Fraser

  The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  10/15/19
  

  Video of the Week: The history behind Turkey's involvement in Syria's civil war

  Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S., Turkey and the Kurds.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/12/19
  

  How Italians Became ‘White’

  by Brent Staples

  Italians who had come to the country as “free white persons” were often marked as black because they accepted “black” jobs in the Louisiana sugar fields or because they chose to live among African-Americans.

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  10/11/19
  

  Why We Must Impeach

  by Sean Wilentz

  The president’s abuse of power has surpassed any we’ve seen in our history — and Congress must act.

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• 10/11/19
  

  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: Tom Dispatch
  10/10/19
  

  The Forgotten Trauma of a Forgotten War

  by Nick Turse

  As the World Looks Away, Death Stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Impeachment is the latest chapter in the battle between democracy and white supremacy

  by Carol Anderson

  The connections aren’t as obvious, but America’s front lines remain the same as they’ve always been.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/10/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Washington Nationals fan

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The long history of baseball in D.C. after the Nationals clenchend a National League Conference Series appearance. 

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• SOURCE: Israel National News
  10/9/19
  

  We put a Nazi general on a pedestal and wonder why we have neo-Nazis

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The US military made a hero of Field Marshal Rommel, Hitler's favorite general. Is it any wonder there are German and American neo-Nazis?

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  10/9/19
  

  What’s happening to Giuliani now was happening to him long before 9/11

  by Jim Sleeper

  Giuliani’s mind and career tell us as much as the impeachment inquiries are likely to do about why Trump’s presidency is so perverse.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• SOURCE: Australian Outlook
  10/4/19
  

  Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines.