Roundup

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/12/19
  

  How Italians Became ‘White’

  by Brent Staples

  Italians who had come to the country as “free white persons” were often marked as black because they accepted “black” jobs in the Louisiana sugar fields or because they chose to live among African-Americans.

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  10/11/19
  

  Why We Must Impeach

  by Sean Wilentz

  The president’s abuse of power has surpassed any we’ve seen in our history — and Congress must act.

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• 10/11/19
  

  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: Tom Dispatch
  10/10/19
  

  The Forgotten Trauma of a Forgotten War

  by Nick Turse

  As the World Looks Away, Death Stalks the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Impeachment is the latest chapter in the battle between democracy and white supremacy

  by Carol Anderson

  The connections aren’t as obvious, but America’s front lines remain the same as they’ve always been.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/10/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Washington Nationals fan

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The long history of baseball in D.C. after the Nationals clenchend a National League Conference Series appearance. 

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• SOURCE: Israel National News
  10/9/19
  

  We put a Nazi general on a pedestal and wonder why we have neo-Nazis

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The US military made a hero of Field Marshal Rommel, Hitler's favorite general. Is it any wonder there are German and American neo-Nazis?

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• SOURCE: Tikkun
  10/9/19
  

  What’s happening to Giuliani now was happening to him long before 9/11

  by Jim Sleeper

  Giuliani’s mind and career tell us as much as the impeachment inquiries are likely to do about why Trump’s presidency is so perverse.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."

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• SOURCE: Australian Outlook
  10/4/19
  

  Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  10/8/19
  

  The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive

  by Ronald Radosh

  The American right has advanced nutty conspiracy theories for decades. But the one we’re about to see play out will make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  October 8, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court must extend the Civil Rights Act’s protections to LGBTQ employees

  by Katherine Turk

  It shouldn’t be legal to fire somebody for their sexual orientation or gender identity.  

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 6, 2019
  

  Why America Needs Whistle-Blowers

  by Allison Stanger

  In accusing the intelligence community whistle-blower of partisanship and treason, President Trump has redefined whistle-blowing to serve his private interests rather than the rule of law. In the American tradition, whistle-blowers expose illegal or unconstitutional acts that the powerful want to keep secret.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/7/19
  

  The difference between Nixon and Trump is Fox News

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Fox News shields President Trump. But his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/2/19
  

  How the Vaping Industry Is Using a Defensive Tactic Pioneered Decades Ago by Big Tobacco

  by Sarah Milov

  Sarah Milov, author of The Cigarette: A Political History, argues "the most dangerous aspect of vaping might not be what it does to the body, but rather what it does to the body politic."

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/4/19
  

  'God Is Not Going to Put It in Your Lap.' What Made Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Civil Rights So Radical—And So Enduring

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/2/19
  

  Historians on Trump: We've never seen anything like this

  by Elizabeth Cobbs, Kyle Longley, Ken Osgood, Jeremi Suri

  We are historians who have researched every president since George Washington, and we've never seen anything like this.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

  by Gabrielle Cornish

  Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/1/19
  

  For 25 years, Operation Gatekeeper has made life worse for border communities

  by Pedro Rios

  The policy of ‘prevention through deterrence’ has been deadly.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  October 1, 2019
  

  The Constitution Needs Reform

  by Sanford Levinson

  The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.