Roundup

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4-20-18 (accessed)
  

  ‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro

  by Peter Kornbluh

  The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

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• 4-19-18
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4-18-18
  

  Everyone in France Wants to Claim the Legacy of 1968

  by Robert Zaretsky

  Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-18-18
  

  The History of White Power

  by Kathleen Belew

  White-power activism is not new, nor has it been part of an underground history. We knew. And we forgot.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-13-18
  

  Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem

  by Eric Bennett

  Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-17-18
  

  Can President Trump legally send troops to the border? It’s complicated.

  by Kevin Adams

  Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  4-17-18 (accessed)
  

  "WITCH HUNT!” – What’s the history behind Trump’s tweets?

  by Mary Beth Norton

  One ion the world's preeminent scholars of the Salem witchcraft trials comments on Trump's glib use of the term.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4-17-18
  

  Class Dismissed

  by Steve Fraser

  Class Conflict in Red State America

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4-16-18
  

  Where is Republican courage?

  by Richard Moe

  That’s the question the country has been hearing, and asking, during the first 15 months of the Trump presidency.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  4-14-18
  

  The Scientist Who Rose From Russia’s Ghettos to Israeli President

  by Gil Troy

  Dr. Charles Weizmann’s life parallels the Jewish people’s journey from victims to historical actors at home in their homeland.

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• SOURCE: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  4-12-18
  

  Video of the Week: Why we need government regulation

  by Vanessa Burrows

  A case study of the FDA crackdown on the charlatan who sold Americans a bogus bill of goods.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  4-14-18
  

  The Rise of Western Civilizationism

  by Daniel Pipes

  What the anti-immigrant movements around the world have in common and why it’s lazy to call them populist or nationalist.

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• 4-12-18
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-12-18
  

  Trump Wants America to Revert to the Queens of His Childhood

  by Thomas B. Edsall

  His contentious views on immigration and integration have their roots in the ethnic and racial transformation of his home borough.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-10-18
  

  The End of Impeachment

  by Elizabeth Drew

  How both Republicans and Democrats are undermining a crucial constitutional tool to oust an unfit president.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4-8-18
  

  How Trump Channels the 1970s

  by Julian E. Zelizer

  The one consistent message coming out of the White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.

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• SOURCE: Atlantic
  4-7-18
  

  The Party of Hubert Humphrey

  by James Traub

  The Democratic presidential candidate believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-8-18
  

  Textbook Racism

  by Donald Yacovone

  How scholars sustained white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4-8-18
  

  Gunboat Diplomacy and the Ghost of Captain Mahan

  by Alfred W. McCoy

  Or How China and the U.S. Are Spawning a New Great Power Naval Rivalry

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• SOURCE: ScienceAlert.com
  4-9-18
  

  Video of the Week: This Stunning Video on The History of Time Will Make You Have Feelings About The Entire Universe

  by Jacinta Bowler

  Although we use it every day, time is complicated.