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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• 8/23/19
  

  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: The Third Narrative
  8/22/19
  

  What Anti-Zionist Leftists Get Wrong

  by Bernard Bohbot

  Fully opposing the legitimacy of Zionism allows for the dubious proposition that Jews were wrong to seek a safe haven from persecution. 

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  8/17/19
  

  Why Values Matter: Obama’s Empathy Versus Trump’s Egoism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Because of the power and influence of U. S. presidents, their values (or lack thereof) matter more than for most of us.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8/18/19
  

  What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

  by Louis Menand

  Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/21/19
  

  Trump's tweets about 'disloyal' Jews are laced with centuries of antisemitism

  by Emma Goldberg

  There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US – and that history is alive and well.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/19
  

  Why trying to distinguish between useful and dangerous immigrants always backfires

  by Faith Hillis

  Today’s “good” immigrant can turn into tomorrow’s radical dissident.

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• SOURCE: The German Times
  Accessed 8/22/19
  

  The history of “German Angst” could serve as a lesson for today’s democratic societies

  by Frank Biess

  The Federal Republic is a remarkable democratic success story and the only such story in German history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

  by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.

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• SOURCE: Time
  8/22/19
  

  It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap

  by Andrea Flynn

  In order to understand the present day race and gender wage gaps we must first look to slavery and the Jim Crow era that followed. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  The Forgotten Story of Operation Anvil

  by Cameron Zinsou

  In August 1944, the United States executed a gigantic assault on southern France. Why does no one remember it?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/19
  

  White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next?

  by Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha J. Coffman

  White evangelicals voted 84 percent for Richard Nixon in 1972 and 80 percent for Donald Trump in 2016. And many of the leaders stood by Nixon as scandals swirled around him, just as they have with Trump.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/21/19
  

  My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro

  by Enrique Krauze

  Latin American, with few exceptions, they have refused to see the historical failure of the Cuban Revolution and the oppressive and impoverishing domination of their patriarch.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/20/19
  

  The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  8/18/19
  

  Video of the Week: The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America

  To observe the anniversary of American slavery, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project to reframe America’s history through the lens of slavery. The project lead, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/8/2019
  

  ‘The Squad’ Is the Future of the Democratic Party

  by Barbara Ransby

  You can credit social movements for that.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  August 6, 2019
  

  The ‘warspeak’ permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches

  by Robert Myers

  Cultural language can impact gun violence. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 6, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court’s illiberal legacy

  by Shahrukh Khan

  Why liberals shouldn’t put too much faith in the nation’s highest court.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 5, 2019
  

  How the black press helped pave the way for gay rights

  by Timothy Stewart-Winter

  The Chicago Defender’s LGBTQ legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 4, 2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race

  by Kyle Longley

  He might be more unvarnished, but Reagan was just as racist.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2019
  

  How the Trail of American White Supremacy Led to El Paso

  We invariably find ourselves locked in conflict with dangerous men intoxicated with their own sense of mission, and drunkenly believing that the only problem with the past is that we ever departed from it at all.