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 Among other revelations, Woodward's taped interviews show Trump admitting to grave concerns about virus in February and to downplaying the risk in March. |
 The Nebraska Republican, who has a PhD in US History from Yale, argued in the Wall Street Journal that the Senate would be made more functional by repealing the 17th Amendment and returning the selection of Senators to the state legislatures. | Today's Top Headlines - How to Think about Coronavirus Risk in Your Life - 5 Takeaways From 'Rage,' Bob Woodward's New Book About Trump - 'Worst Case Scenarios' at Sturgis Rally Could Link Event to 266,000 Coronavirus Cases, Study Says Roundup Top 10 HNN Tip: You can read more about topics in which you're interested by clicking on the tags featured directly underneath the title of any article you click on.
 by Jelani Cobb "A weather forecast is not a prediction of the inevitable. We are not doomed to witness a catastrophic tempest this fall, but anyone who is paying attention knows that the winds have begun to pick up." |
 by Leonard Steinhorn Recordings of the President reveal not only racial bigotry but a cynical indifference to the rule of law and a belief that any means were justified to prevail over political adversaries. |
 by Tom Nichols "The hardening of the GOP into a toxic conglomeration of hucksters, quislings, racists, theocrats, and cultists is already happening. The party gladly accepted support from white supremacists and the Russian secret services, and now welcomes QAnon kooks into its caucus. Conservatives must learn that the only way out of "the wilderness" is first to vanquish those who led them there." |
 by Macabe Keliher While orthodox economists like to point to Hong Kong as an ideal free market, the social consequences have been disastrous. Inequality is rising, wages are declining and working hours increasing, overall economic opportunity is dwindling, and housing is so unaffordable that office workers sleep in McDonalds. Is it any wonder that the streets are now burning? |
 by Carol Anderson The Supreme Court today repeats the shameful actions of the courts in the 1890s, which gave judicial cover to state laws explicitly designed to disenfranchise Black voters, by accepting bad faith arguments that the laws in question were race-neutral. |
 by Miriam Pawel Translating protest into reform depends on breaking the influence law enforcement unions exert on state legislators, including through campaign contributions. |
 by Austin Sarat "Throughout this nation's history, appeals to law and order have been as much about defending privilege as dealing with crime. They have been used in political campaigns to stigmatize racial, ethnic and religious groups and resist calls for social justice made by, and on behalf of, those groups." |
 by Peniel Joseph Black citizenship remains the best yardstick to measure the nation's democratic health, and even before the coronavirus pandemic, the Black vote in large parts of the country remained imperiled. |
 by Elizabeth R. Varon In arguing that radical protesters endanger U.S. law and order, Trump is echoing the attacks leveled by Southern enslavers against abolitionists. |
 by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith Poor and economically precarious Americans are at risk of eviction in the COVID-19 crisis because American policymakers have spent decades rejecting a public role in providing decent housing outside of the market system. | 
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 Two election law experts point to the non-trivial possibility of a constitutional crisis over the 2020 presidential election. |
 The late Waverly Woodson is one of an untold number of Black service members passed over for the Medal of Honor whose cases have received renewed attention decades later, as their families and historians try to correct a historical record in which the contributions of Black service members are often left out. |
 Historians Pascal Blanchard and Pap Ndiaye say that the hot-button term "ensauvagement" reflects France's unrecognized history of colonialism and the prevalent belief that the French helped elevate the people they colonized; the present-day right wing uses the term to imply that immigrants from France's former colonies require control and repression. |
 The historian took an unexpected turn into researching the health system when he got suddenly, seriously ill in December 2019. He argues that the for-profit healthcare system exposes a dire conflict between capitalism and liberty. |
 Texas A&M's mostly white and conservative alumni network supports campus traditions that clash with the values of the school's increasingly diverse students today, highlighted in protests to remove a statue of a former university president who participated in massacres of Black soliders as a Confederate, violently purged Native people as a Texas Ranger, and presided over the violent aftermath of Reconstruction as Governor. |
 "Republicans trying to make their cases for stricter voting procedures in courts must deal with the basic truth that four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud," writes a longtime Republican election lawyer. |
 Robin Mitchell's book "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" examines how sexualized descriptions of Black women contributed to French racism. |
 For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners. |
 Two Dutch women, one white and one Black, met through their shared ancestral connection to the slave trade in Suriname. They have produced an eight-part podcast to encourage the Dutch people to recognize the role slavery played in building the Netherlands. |
 Hari Kunzru's review essay examines the current vogue for white antiracism (and antiracist training) through the history of whiteness as a political and academic concept, concluding that many of the most popular books and multicultural pieties strip the idea of its structural elements and reduce it to a question of personal purification. |
 Columbia University professor Christopher Brown says the number of slave shipwrecks that researchers have been able to confirm are the absolute minimum, and that the true number of shipwrecked slave ships are likely much higher. The work of a Florida diving group hopes to change that. |
 Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity. | 
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