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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/15/2023
Welcome Corps is the Newest Idea for Welcoming Refugees, but it Has a Long History
by Emily Frazier and Laura E. Alexander
The proposal for a new refugee resettlement agency extends the mission of many religious settlement and humanitarian groups that have operated in the United States for more than 150 years. This has the potential and the peril of bringing resettlement more in line with the characteristics of local communities.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/10/2023
Mexican Miltary Surveilled Ayotzinapa Student Teachers for Years Before 43 Disappeared
Hackers released a trove of documents from the Mexican Defense Ministry. Among other revelations: the government was engaged in surveillance of students at a teachers' college in the state of Guerrero, long before 43 students disappeared in 2014.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2/27/2023
"Argentina, 1985" is a Warning for 2023
The film's most important contribution is to remind that the rule of law must be maintained.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/14/2023
Ukrainian Civilians' Experience of Violence
by Anne Applebaum and Nataliya Gumenyuk
Russian soldiers exposed to propaganda that Ukrainians were unwilling subjects of their local governments expected civilian support to capture political leaders; when this expectation was confounded, they unleashed violence.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/14/2023
The Network Helping Russia's War Resisters Escape
“In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31.
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SOURCE: Hollywood Progressive
2/11/2023
In "Argentina, 1985" Progressive Values Win
by Walter G. Moss
The true story depicted in the Oscar-nominated film shows the necessity of persistence and the power of hope.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1/24/2023
"Argentina, 1985" Gets Oscar Nod
The film has sparked debate in Argentina over its representation of events, but tells the story of the first successful civilian trial of a military dictatorship.
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1/15/2023
Resisting Nationalism in Education
by Jacob Goodwin
"Countering the pull toward nationalistic authoritarianism requires intellectual openness and curiosity. This is a challenge in the time of recovery from the global pandemic, environmental catastrophe and jagged economic turbulence."
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/5/2022
Is Israel Criticism the Reason Harvard Refused "Godfather" of Human Rights
by Michael Massing
Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors?
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SOURCE: The China Project
12/7/2022
The 1979 Formosa Incident Sparked Taiwan's Democracy Movement
by James Carter
An explainer of the wave of protests that began on December 10, 1979, that disrupted the one-party authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.
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SOURCE: History Club (Substack)
12/4/2022
Qatar's World Cup Echoes Brutal American Labor History
by Jason Steinhauer
Exposés of the brutal conditions faced by migrant laborers who built Qatar's World Cup facilities echoes the history of American public works, where workers' bodies and lives were subordinated to budgets and timetables.
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SOURCE: CNN
12/1/2022
For Chinese Protesters, Blank Pages are the Punch Line. What's the Joke?
by Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
To understand the current Chinese protests, consider the nation's traditions of creative, surreptitious, and subversive political humor.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/29/2022
Russia's Memorial Forced to Downsize its Tribute to Stalinist Victims
“The point in returning the names is that we’re naming the victims,” said Yan Rachinsky, the chairman of Memorial’s board. “But the question inevitably arises: If there are victims of crime, then there are criminals, and there are reasons for the crime. These are no longer things that our authorities are ready to discuss.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/27/2022
Spain's New Citizenship Law for Exiles from Franco Portends Massive Return from Latin America
Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country.
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SOURCE: London Review of Books
10/13/2022
Understanding Colombia's Truth Commission Report after 60 Years of Civil Conflict
by Rachel Nolan
Colombia's armed conflict between government forces, leftist rebels, and paramilitary death squads is the world's longest continuous conflict. The nation's massive Truth Commission report undermines decades of official government narrative about the apportionment of blame for atrocities.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Voice
10/6/2022
Philadelphia Apologizes for Prison Experiments on Inmates
University of Pennsylvania Dermatology professor Albert Kligman tested medicines and other products on prison inmates between 1951 and 1974.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/7/2022
Honored by Nobel Peace Prize, Memorial Preserves Knowledge of Soviet Atrocities and Warns of Present Imperialism
The Nobel committee gave an implicit rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in honoring the organization, which was shut down as a "terrorist" group last year, forcing some leaders into exile.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/16/2022
Isaac Chotiner Interviews Deborah Lipstadt
Is partnership with repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia a good strategy to reduce antisemitism in the Middle East?
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9/4/2022
UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US
by Alan J. Singer
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called out American health disparities, police abuse and crackdowns on protesters as key failures of the United States to address racial inequality.
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SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
8/31/2022
DoD's Plan to Reduce Civilian Casualties Will Humanize Endless War
by Samuel Moyn
Reducing the brutality of war while tolerating its existence will entrench war as a permanent feature of global politics.
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