Roundup

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4-23-18
  

  How We Solved Fake News the First Time

  by Stephen Marche

  Since the beginning of the Internet, the unintended consequences of its arrival have been routinely compared to the fallout from the invention of the printing press.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-24-18
  

  Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too

  by Evelyn M. Simien

  Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-24-18
  

  Video of the Week: It’s Been 65 Years. Why Hasn’t the Korean War Ended?

  by David Botti

  After six decades, the Korean War is technically still not over. Here’s what happened – and why it still matters.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4-21-18
  

  What Melania Trump Can Learn From Barbara Bush

  by Gil Troy

  The late first lady showed how to walk the line between devoted spouse and Washington power player.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  4-23-18
  

  The Internet is the new Wheel of Fortune

  by Niall Ferguson

  Social media has democratized politics, but it can kill an individual's reputation in a nanosecond. 

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-23-18
  

  No Reconciliation Without Truth

  by Caleb Gayle

  A new museum and lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, constitute a watershed moment in the way America remembers its racist past.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4-24-18 (accessed)
  

  The Hardest Job in the World

  by John Dickerson

  What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-22-18
  

  Thank Trump, or You’ll Be Sorry

  by Diana Butler Bass

  He got angry recently that people didn’t credit him with breaking ISIS. Here’s why.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4-21-18
  

  End of the American dream? The dark history of 'America first'

  by Sarah Churchwell

  When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history – a sign of what was to follow in his presidency.

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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.