Roundup Top Ten for April 3, 2020
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroesby Eladio BobadillaTracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today. |
For More Than A Century, Americans Fine-Tuned The Rules Of Democracy. Why Have We Stopped?by Gregory P. DownsThe United States has survived not by keeping the same system but by transforming its rules at crucial moments. |
The Internet Archive Chooses Readersby Karin WulfTo elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace. |
The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plagueby Jared Yates SextonThose who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again. |
Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Alwaysby Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz RanaIn a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity. |
When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’by Samuel ZippIn 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together. |
Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”by John Patrick LearyMost politicians are playacting: a privileged cohort of other-than-real Americans desperately trying to convince a mass following that they are, indeed, just plain folks. |
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sandersby Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorAmerican life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light. |
The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Responseby Katherine StewartTrump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies. |
The Trouble with Triscuitsby Charles Louis RichterWhere did the name of this popular snack come from? An exercise in historical reasoning. |