national emergency

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism?

  Historians including David Kennedy, Andrew Bacevich, David Oshinsky and Wilfred McClay discuss whether the idea of American uniqueness has hurt national preparedness for an epidemic, if it will help or hinder recovery, and if the COVID-19 crisis will dislodge the idea from popular consciousness.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Trump Talks Like President Roosevelt But Acts Like President Hoover

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  The war against COVID-19 requires bold leadership from Washington. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2020
  

  What Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped

  He oversaw the 2009 economic recovery for Barack Obama. If he wins the presidency, his first task will be to perform an encore on an even more daunting scale.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/6/2020
  

  States Can't Fight Coronavirus on Their Own—And the Founding Fathers Knew It

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  It’s a problem the nation’s founders could have foreseen. After all, they knew from experience that some problems can’t be dealt with on a state-by-state basis.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  New Deal or Nazism? Historical Comparisons to Trump's Performance as a Leader in Crisis

  by Walter G. Moss

  Comparing the first 100 days in power of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler offers a sobering reminder of the consequences of decisions pursued by leaders in crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  4/1/2020
  

  The US Government Has a Long History of Using Crises to Justify Indefinite Mass Detention

  Governments, both federal and local, are already flirting with emergency powers to fight the spread of coronavirus that contravene the rights residents normally take for granted.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/31/2020
  

  The Case Against Waging ‘War’ on the Coronavirus

  There is a long history of world leaders framing fights against disease within the context of war.

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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: TIME
  3/24/2020
  

  The U.S. Government Has Mobilized Private Companies to Face Crises Before. Here’s What to Know

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  One aspect of the history is clear: when business has successfully stepped up for national-security purposes, the federal government and the military have played a key role in coordinating the effort.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  America Is at War, and There’s Only One Enemy

  by Margaret O'Mara

  The president’s invoking of the Defense Production Act could transform American life after the coronavirus, if we get it right.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Shows how Backward the United States has Become

  by Max Boot

  We should not be especially surprised by our failure at pandemic-fighting, because if we are being honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that the United States has long been failing.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2020
  

  Presidents Forge Their Legacies in Crises

  by Peter Baker

  It is too early to say how President Trump’s actions in the coronavirus outbreak will affect his legacy, but history is filled with lessons.

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• 2/27/19
  

  What FDR Can Teach Us About Congress and National Emergencies

  by Martin Halpern

  Seventy-five years ago this week, there was a serious conflict between President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress.

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• 2/19/19
  

  “National Security Crisis” or “Power Grab”?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/15/19
  

  Historian Ana Raquel Minian Interviewed on How Trump's Wall Rhetoric Changes Lives in Mexico

  Why does America detain so many illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in the first place?