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HNN Sponsor     Trending on HNN - Trump Is Not Fighting Science, He's Stealing Its Authority Adam Laats - The Cure May Be Deadlier Than the Disease. Much Deadlier. Jonathan Rose - Trump's Quislings David Driesen Today's COVID Headlines - In Some States, Local Jurisdictions Defy Governors' Orders - The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? - France's COVID-19 tracing app expected to enter testing in week of May 11 This Week's Op Eds Original essays for the History News Network. Healing And Reconciling History 100 Years After the Elaine Race Massacre by J. Chester Johnson The author's realization that his beloved grandfather had participated in a racist massacre in Elaine, Arkansas led him to an unlikely journey of reconciliation with a descendent of one of the victims of that campaign of terror, and an understanding of the need for honesty about how heritage can excuse racism. Lessons on Isolation and Humanity in a Family's Letters from Hiding by Daphne Geismar A virus doesn't discriminate. But our social structures, systemic biases, and policy choices have made some populations particularly vulnerable. This pandemic has changed us. We must make changes so this tragedy, like the Holocaust, isn't repeated. Robots Don't Catch the Coronavirus by Alan Singer Companies have used federal funding in previous crises for selfish, rather than public, ends. In the COVID-19 crisis some are using bailout funds to make jobs permanently disappear.  The Untold Story of Boko Haram's Origins by Jacob Zenn Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders. If Farmworkers Are "Essential," Why Are They Treated So Badly? by Lawrence Wittner Farmworkers are essential. Our government, businesses and laws treat them as expendable. Trump's Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush by Jeffrey J. Matthews George W. Bush's promotion of cooperative international health initiaitves to fight HIV-AIDS is a bright spot in his presidential legacy. "Western Civ" Was Not a Late Invention by Stanley Kurtz America's colleges taught Western civilization for centuries before the curricular disruptions of the 1960s, and the topic's appeal was trans-partisan. Trump Completely Misunderstands His Authority: A Lawyer's Perspective by James D. Zirin The exact distribution of power in American federalism is debatable. But any federal arrangement demands consistency so that states and the federal government can cooperate in an emergency. That seems beyond the Trump administration.  50 Years After Kent State: Four Deaths Shocked a Nation and Thrust Me into Student Activism by James Thornton Harris An HNN Contributing Editor reflects on how the Kent State killings pushed him to student activism and the legacy of protest fifty years later.  Youth Crises Past and Present: Learning from the New Deal and Eleanor Roosevelt by Robert Cohen It is time to start demanding a successor to the National Youth Administration to meet the educational and economic needs of students--and to ask who in Washington will carry the torch that Eleanor Roosevelt raised during the Depression decade as the champion of low income youth.     The Truth about the Five O' Clock Follies by Ron Steinman Ron Steinman covered the notorious "Five O'Clock Follies" press conferences held by American military leadership in Saigon, and warns against comparing them to the Trump administration's daily Coronavirus briefings.  The Myth of Vice-Presidential Irrelevancy by Ronald L. Feinman It is simply not the case that the choice of a vice president is irrelevant to a presidential campaign or administration.  The Second Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower's Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic by Jack M. Holl Dwight Eisenhower played a pivotal role in protecting the troops under his command and the civilians living around Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from the 1918 influenza pandemic.    Don't Miss! Losing Women—and Women's History—in Times of Crisis by Megan Kate Nelson Women and all of their visible and invisible labor are at the center of the COVID crisis, and they are finding their way into news coverage of the pandemic. The stories of women living and suffering and dying throughout history, however, have largely fallen by the wayside. We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions. by Lane Windham For a time, union contracts were the closest thing the U.S. had to the kinds of robust social safety nets found in European countries. Evangelicals, Donald J. Trump, and the Making of the Tribune in Chief by Paul Croce Even Donald Trump's harshest critics would do well to understand his powerful appeal to white evangelical Christians instead of simply complaining about it.  An Interview with Fergus Bordewich, Author of "Congress at War" by James Thornton Harris My work on Congress during the Compromise of 1850 showed me how much wonderful untapped and dramatic material there was to be found in the battles fought on the floor of Congress. History Should Have Told Us not to Believe the Quinine Drug Hype by Andrew Goss Big pharmaceutical companies have long over-promised the efficacy of their antimalarial drugs. It seems to be happening again.     Roundup Top 10 Roundup Top Ten for May 1, 2020 This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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