Roundup Top Ten for March 13, 2020
Coronavirus School Closings: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Lateby Howard MarkelIn the history of medicine, we have never been more prepared to confront this virus than we are today. But this history also teaches us that when it comes to school closings, we must always be ready to act today — not tomorrow. |
Joe Biden Personifies Democratic Party Failures Since the Cold Warby Michael BrenesThe Democratic Party needs to escape the shadow of anti-communism and embrace economic and racial justice. |
Liberal Activists Have to Think Broadly and Unite Across Linesby Matthew D. LassiterFifty years before Greta Thunberg, students at the University of Michigan organized a Teach-In that paved the way for Earth Day demonstrations that mobilized 20 million people in 1970. |
Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experimentby Jonathan ZimmermanLet’s use this crisis to determine what our students actually learn when we teach them online. |
The History of Slavery Remains With Us Todayby Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la FuenteTwo historians trace how law and institutions developed around anti-black ideology in the Americas. |
We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Places to Understand Sanders’s Socialismby Richard WhiteDetractors like to equate Senator Bernie Sanders’s socialism with Soviet and Chinese Communism, but they’re swinging at the wrong century, the wrong country and the wrong socialism. |
My Abortion Before Roe v. Wadeby Elizabeth StoneRoe v. Wade is in peril, flinging me back to a terrifying time in my own life, one I never expected women today would have to face. |
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.by Leslie M. HarrisThe paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous, argues historian Leslie M. Harris. |
The Latest Battle over the Confederate Flag Isn’t Happening Where You’d Expectby Megan Kate NelsonConfederate actions in the Far Western theater of the war reveal the extent to which the Confederate flag became a symbol of white supremacy and conquest. |
There’s a Complex History of Skin Lighteners in Africa and Beyondby Lynn M. ThomasThe politics of skin colour in South Africa have been importantly shaped by the history of white supremacy and institutions of racial slavery, colonialism, and segregation. My book examines that history. |