Roundup

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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• 5/16/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/19
  

  How the Mueller report could end the Trump presidency without impeachment

  by Jasmin Bath

  Democrats should run on a message from 1860: You need a president you can trust.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/14/19
  

  A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage

  by Brent Staples

  A sculpture that’s expected to be unveiled in Central Park next year ignores the important contributions of black women.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/13/19
  

  What Democrats Can Learn About Impeachment From the Civil War

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Lesson One: Don’t let Trump take the initiative.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  Why We Still Care About America’s Founders

  by Rick Atkinson

  Despite their flaws, their struggle continues to speak to the nation we want to become.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/14/19
  

  Redacting Democracy

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/19
  

  If judicial nominees don’t support ‘Brown v. Board,’ they don’t support the rule of law

  by Sherrilyn Ifill

  Few of us — no matter our race, color or creed — would recognize our democracy or legal system without the changes touched off by this momentous civil rights case.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/4/19
  

  Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.

  by Claire Bond Potter

  It was pushed by Madison Avenue and preached by self-help gurus. Then it entered politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/15/19
  

  Why we can — and must — create a fairer system of traffic enforcement

  by Sarah A. Seo

  Its discretionary nature has left it ripe for abuse.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/12/19
  

  It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies

  by Kathleen Crowther

  How Georgia is continuing a centuries-long tradition, and why it must stop.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/19
  

  How anti-immigrant policies thwart scientific discovery

  by Violet Moller

  By hindering international collaboration, the Trump administration has triggered a “brain drain.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/14/19
  

  Rashida Tlaib Has Her History Wrong

  by Benny Morris

  The representative’s account of the Arab-Israeli conflict relies on origin myths about the birth of Israel.

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  5/14/19
  

  The Precedent for Impeachment: Nixon, Not Clinton

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  "Blumenthal, who had a front row seat to the Clinton drama, understands that there are major differences between these two instances."

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  5/14/19
  

  An Open Memo: Comparison of Clinton Impeachment, Nixon Impeachment and Trump Pre-Impeachment

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The facts and history indicate that the Clinton case bears little if any relevance to the Trump one, while the Nixon case shows great similarity to Trump’s.

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• 5/9/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Voice
  5/9/19
  

  Sandra Bland Did Not Kill Herself

  by Crystal A. deGregory

  I did not watch the video. I do not need to. I know that Sandra Bland did not kill herself—a morally corrupt justice system did.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/3/19
  

  May Fourth, the Day That Changed China

  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

  Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  The myths behind the push to resurrect child labor

  by Oenone Kubie

  Why is there a significant push to resurrect child labor. 

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• SOURCE: Twin Cities Pioneer Press
  5/5/19
  

  Revise, revise, revise. That’s how history works

  by Jeff Kolnick

  Revisionism is not something to be feared or rejected, nor is it something to be celebrated or revered. It is what historians do, and we do it all the time.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  How John and John Quincy Adams predicted the Age of Trump

  by Carol Berkin

  “The Problem of Democracy” offers a final warning to its readers who live in an era of “alternate truths” and blind devotion to charismatic leaders.