Roundup

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/11/19
  

  Only Washington Can Solve the Nation’s Housing Crisis

  by Lizabeth Cohen

  The federal government once promised to provide homes for every American. What happened?

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• 7/12/19
  

  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: The Atlantic
  7/4/19
  

  What to an American Is the Fourth of July?

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eye

  by Jonathan M. Hansen

  The revolutionary leader fought for and defended the very democratic ideals his government would later suspend.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7/9/19
  

  The War Against Endless War Heats Up With Koch-Soros Salvo

  by Ronald Radosh

  The otherwise ideologically opposed billionaires are the latest unlikely pair to find common ground in the idea that American power is the root cause of the world’s problems.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/9/19
  

  The white nostalgia fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash

  by Brooke Newman

  The uproar over a black Ariel shows how important representation in children’s entertainment is.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/10/19
  

  How antitrust laws can save Silicon Valley — without breaking up the tech giants

  by Margaret O'Mara

  For AT&T in the 1950s, antitrust enforcement helped increase competition while keeping Ma Bell intact.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  7/5/19
  

  How Fake News Could Lead to Real War

  by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

  We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/9/19
  

  Why We Need More Black Women In Economics

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  Recently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/10/19
  

  Democrats’ Ominous Shift on School Segregation

  by Brett Gadsden

  It’s not just Joe Biden—the party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  7/9/19
  

  The Riptide of American Militarism

  by William Astore

  As Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/4/19
  

  The Fourth of July Has Always Been Political

  by David Waldstreicher

  The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.

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• 7/5/19
  

  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: Hyperallergic
  7/3/19
  

  The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America

  by Sarah E. Bond

  It is disturbing to see how gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate news stories today, particularly those that draw parallels between Rome and the United States.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/3/19
  

  The Surprising History of Nationalist Internationalism

  by David Motadel

  Internationalism, a concept that, after all, implicitly presumes the existence of the nation, and extreme nationalism are not necessarily incompatible. The far right is less parochial than we think — and that’s dangerous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/19
  

  Why Democrats are wrong about Trump’s politicization of the Fourth of July

  by Shira Lurie

  He’s not doing anything that hasn’t been done for centuries.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/19
  

  How the Declaration of Independence became a beacon to the world

  by Charles Edel

  The Declaration’s international reach.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/1/19
  

  Reflecting On The Civil Rights Act’s Anniversary With James Baldwin

  by Lindsey R. Swindall

  Much like the time in which Baldwin wrote, we are living through a period of deep political division and social crisis framed by global discord.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/1/19
  

  An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

  by Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al.

  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a statement on June 24 condemning the use of Holocaust analogies.