Roundup

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  6/25/18
  

  Nicaragua: We Will Always Be Confronted by U.S. Power

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Nicaragua at the barricades.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-24-18
  

  Evangelical Fear Elected Trump

  by John Fea

  The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6/25/18 (Date Accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: How the GOP Used to Address Immigration Issues

  Watch Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush defend immigrants in 1980.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-24-18
  

  It would be stupid to think we have moved on from war. Look around.

  by Margaret MacMillan

  The distinguished historian, this year’s Reith lecturer, argues we can never be complacent about global conflict.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-22-18
  

  Charter schools damage public education

  by Diane Ravitch

  Once even Albert Shanker thought charter schools were a good idea.  Then he realized his mistake.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  6-22-18
  

  It Can Happen Here

  by Jim Sleeper

  Don’t underestimate the depths to which Donald Trump and his enablers will go to punish their political enemies.

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• 6-21-18
  

  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: National Review
  6-20-18
  

  Trump Has Strengthened, Not Undermined, Democracy in the U.S.

  by Conrad Black

  A conservative’s defense of Donald Trump’s presidency.

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• 6/21/18 (date accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: The Nazi Propaganda Film that Compared Jews to Rats

  The film was created in 1940 as the persecution of the Jews in nazi Germany escalated.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  6-19-18
  

  ‘INFEST’ — The Ugly Nazi History of Trump’s Chosen Verb About Immigrants

  by Aviya Kushner

  When President Trump characterized immigrants as “animals,” some people waved it away, claiming he was only referring to gang members. But today’s use of “infest” in connection to human beings is impossible to ignore.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-14-18
  

  Trump’s America does not care

  by Robert Kagan

  Trump is not merely neglecting the liberal world order; he is milking it for narrow gain.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-17-18
  

  Trump-Trudeau tiff is the latest in a history of President-PM disputes

  by Ron Stagg

  While this very public spat is perhaps the most publicized disagreement between an American president and a Canadian prime minister, there have been notable confrontations in the past.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6-16-18
  

  Trump uses IG report to spread 'deep state' conspiracy

  by Julian Zelizer

  Trump has done more than anyone else to bring the fringe conspiracy concept of a "deep state" into the mainstream, with the help of his son Donald Jr.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-13-18
  

  Why 2018 is awash in conspiracies and scandals

  by Sarah Horowitz

  Our era of scandal is not driven by the occupant in the White House, but by a deeper problem: economic inequality.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  6-15-18
  

  Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ?

  by Edward T. O’Donnell

  The original Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive Era.  Will ours?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-15-18
  

  Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  For centuries, historians denied Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings. This exhibit has been a long time coming, but better late than never.

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• SOURCE: Worcester Telegram
  6/15/18
  

  'Something there is that doesn’t love a wall'

  by Paul S. Ropp

  In the age of drones, airplanes and instantaneous electronic communication, walls are increasingly relics of a bygone era.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-14-18
  

  Lessons on political polarization from Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ speech, 160 years later

  by Bradford Vivian

  The idea that America is politically polarized isn’t new.

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• 6-14-18
  

  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: New Republic
  6-13-18
  

  Lessons From the Gilded Age

  by Sarah Jones

  America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?