Roundup

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Coronavirus Is A Defining Test And American Government Is Failing It

  by Zach Carter

  Donald Trump and this virus are only the proximate causes of our coming misery. A society that has devoted itself to escalating inequality is becoming ungovernable.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/27/2020
  

  The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response

  by Katherine Stewart

  Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/29/2020
  

  The Government Must Pay People to Stay Home

  by Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The earliest effective government responses to epidemic illness in the United States came not in the context of human health, but in the context of livestock.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Coronavirus Shows the Perils and Promise of Globalization

  by Samuel Zipp

  During the first age of “America First” in the 1940s, Wendell Wilkie's campaign challenged Americans to confront a discomfiting idea: Our lives depend on the well-being of many millions across the world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  An Authoritarian Power Structure Brought Coronavirus to Liberty University

  by Adam Laats

  How one-man rule emerged at fundamentalist colleges and universities.  

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/26/2020
  

  Judgment Day for the National Security State

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Deferred for far too long, Judgment Day may at long last have arrived for the national security state.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/27/2020
  

  Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”

  by John Patrick Leary

  The perpetual quest to win over real, unpretentious Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Democrats Have the Right Idea of what COVID-19 Relief Should Look Like

  by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

  The failure to create a better social safety net has left us unprepared to deal with covid-19.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/26/2020
  

  Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always

  by Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

  In 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.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  Roundup Top Ten for March 27, 2020

  The top ten op eds by historians published around the web.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/26/2020
  

  Reviving the Original Purpose of Pass-Fail

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.

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• SOURCE: Uncommon Sense
  3/26/2020
  

  Women Also Know Washington

  by Lindsay Chervinsky

  The last decade has witnessed a noticeable uptick of works on Washington authored by women, with more to come in the pipeline.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  3/26/2020
  

  Donald Trump Plays His Blame Game

  by Allan Lichtman

  Now Trump is setting up every American for an entirely new blame game with his misguided notion that we should return to normal by Easter.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/26/2020
  

  Babe Ruth's New York @ 100

  by Jonathan Goldman

  When Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change.

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• SOURCE: Creators Syndicate
  3/25/2020
  

  Notes From the New Normal

  by Jamie Stiehm

  America is not immune to the world. We're all connected in "a single garment of destiny," as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  We’ve Never Been Here Before

  by Adam Tooze

  There are historical analogies to this kind of collective shutdown, but they are not attractive.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/23/2020
  

  How One Federal Agency Took Care of its Workers During the Yellow Fever Pandemic in the 1790s

  by Julia Mansfield

  To protect the currency supply, the director of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia suspended operations during each outbreak of yellow fever with a guarantee of half pay for the two to three months that yellow fever lasted.

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  3/19/2020
  

  Hospice of the Creative Class

  by Alex Sayf Cummings

  No event has so starkly revealed the brutal inequalities of contemporary capitalism as the coronavirus pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  3/24/2020
  

  Joking in the Time of Pandemic: The 1889–92 Flu and 2020 COVID-19

  by Kristin Brig

  As we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best — and worst — of humanity.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/24/2020
  

  Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy Has Left Us All Vulnerable to COVID-19

  by Teal Arcadi and Casey Eilbert

  Decades of deriding bureaucrats and cuts have undermined government capacity to serve us when we need it most.