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This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Reporter
  4/6/2020
  

  Time For The Dems To Earn The Hatred Of The Wealthy And Connected

  Democrats might want to make copies of the president's signing statement and mail it to all Americans, highlighting the passages where the president insists there will be no oversight.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2020
  

  A Lesson on Voting Rights—And Suppression—During a Pandemic that Students Won’t Learn in Textbooks

  Here is a lesson for students and everybody else on the history of voter suppression in this country.

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• SOURCE: WAMU.org
  4/6/2020
  

  A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning

  Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as “Zoombombing."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  Marie Antoinette Would Be Proud

  The palace has called on skilled designers, historians, botanists and gardeners to apply their expertise to the complicated work of restoring that spot, called Le Bosquet de la Reine, or the Queen’s Grove.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  How Did the E.U. Get the Coronavirus So Wrong?

  The truth is that when it comes to public health, the Union has done what its member nations wanted it to do: not much.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  4/6/2020
  

  A Right-Wing Influencer Claimed Native Americans Are Getting Extra Relief Aid. They Aren’t, But They Probably Should.

  The needs of Native communities, which were brutally colonized through overt violence and smallpox, a pandemic, hold a particular place in US jurisprudence—one that has long been overlooked. 

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  4/6/2020
  

  A Wartime Footing

  by Charles Edel

  America’s experience in WWII can and should inform our response to the coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/7/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Truther Elite

  Before they were instructed by management to perform an about-face, a chorus of Trump-loyal anchors and pundits and hosts downplayed the lethality of the infectious disease.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  4/6/2020
  

  Mississippi Governor Declares ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ During Coronavirus Pandemic

  Reeves has long had ties to pro-Confederate organizations.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/6/2020
  

  Belabored Stories: The Dangers of Sanitation Work

  Kevin Clark had to fight for protective equipment from the waste hauling company where he works even before the pandemic. Things aren’t much better now.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4/7/2020
  

  Artificial Intelligence is Preserving our Ability to Converse with Holocaust Survivors even After They Die

  Survivors of the Holocaust now have the chance to preserve their stories in a way that allows them to directly answer future generations' questions about their experiences.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/3/2020
  

  15 States Have Postponed Their Primaries Because of Coronavirus. Here’s a List.

  Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and Puerto Rico have rescheduled their contests.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/2/2020
  

  The Hot & Bothered Podcast: Beyond the New Deal

  It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  Generations of Rosewood Descendants Keep a Once-Forgotten History Alive

  This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/2/2020
  

  From Afar, Congress Moves to Oversee Trump Coronavirus Response

  Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief money is being spent.

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/1/2020
  

  The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming

  The Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds. 

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• SOURCE: Freedom Forum
  4/2/2020
  

  "Be Nice" Is Not Needed During Crisis — But A Free Press Is

  “Be nice” — two words not found anywhere among the 45 words of the First Amendment.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/30/2020
  

  The Prep-School Nazi

  by Benjamin Wallace

  Before he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  4/2/2020
  

  Army Warned in Early February That Coronavirus Could Kill 150,000 Americans

  While the president was still downplaying the COVID-19 epidemic, an Army briefing shared with The Daily Beast shows the service warning of the scale of death Trump now concedes.