Roundup

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  3/21/19
  

  Trump Can Be Indicted – Here's the Constitutional Proof

  by Mark Medish

  Impeachment by Congress is one way to remove a president from office. Indictment and prosecution for a federal felony provide a separate avenue.

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• 3/21/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/21/19
  

  Citizenship in the Age of Trump

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Death By a Thousand Cuts

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery

  by Jelani Cobb

  Most of the men who committed these recent acts of terror composed manifestos. A sense of history turning on the fulcrum of a single man’s actions is a theme within them. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/19
  

  The first time the U.S. considered drafting women — 75 years ago

  by Pamela D. Toler

  As legislative debate about drafting women in 1945 shows, if the military need is great enough, women will be drafted no matter how uncomfortable lawmakers are with the prospect.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/19
  

  Poor criminal defendants need better legal counsel to achieve a just society

  by Connie Hassett-Walker

  Why we must fulfill the promise of a famous Supreme Court decision to truly achieve criminal justice reform.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/19
  

  Nazis Have Always Been Trolls

  by Adam Serwer

  Historically, they rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Native children benefit from knowing their heritage. Why attack a system that helps them?

  by Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp

  For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act has protected the best interests of Native children and helped preserve the integrity of tribal nations across the United States.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  3/20/19
  

  Video of the Week: DNA Reveals Diversity Amid the Crew of 16th Century Battleship

  An investigation of the DNA of the crew of King Henry VIII's battleship "Mary Rose," which sank in 1545. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/19/19
  

  When bad actors twist history, historians take to Twitter. That’s a good thing.

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  Engaging with the public isn’t pedantry; it’s direct engagement. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  3/18/19
  

  Americans don’t believe in meritocracy — they believe in fake-it-ocracy

  by Niall Ferguson

  This illegal “side door” into college came into existence because the back door of a fat donation — like the $2.5 million paid by Jared Kushner’s father to Harvard — isn’t 100 percent reliable.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/15/19
  

  Who’s the snowflake? We tenured professors, that’s who

  by Anita Bernstein

  Our freedom to say what we want is not only tolerated but celebrated.

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• 3/14/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

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

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/12/19
  

  Video of the Week: Julia Child from WW2 Agent to Legendary Chef

  Before she became a world-famous chef, Julia Child worked for a top-secret U.S. intelligence agency, where she helped devise a recipe for shark repellent.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/19
  

  The real history of women wouldn’t look quite so nice on a tote bag

  by Laurie Penny

  “Empowerment” has always been more palatable and easier to sell than the idea of women simply taking power, and it’s more cheerful than the reality that plenty of women’s history has been defined as much by frustration and pain as by perky self-actualization.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/12/19
  

  Why the College-Admissions Scandal Is So Absurd

  by Alia Wong

  For the parents charged in a new FBI investigation, crime was a cheaper and simpler way to get their kids into elite schools than the typical advantages wealthy applicants receive.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’

  by Erez Manela

  After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/19
  

  The government effort to make FOIA “as bad as possible”

  by Nate Jones

  The Department of Justice's historical effort to weaken the Freedom Of Information Act and why Congress must strengthen the law. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/19
  

  How presidential empathy can improve politics

  by Jeremi Suri

  The legacy of FDR and his fireside chats.