Browsing: News from Around the Internet  As Trump refuses to concede, few Republicans have repudiated his baseless charges of election fraud. Are they indulging a sore loser or starting a coup? |
Video of the Week  The families of victims of Argentina's far-right "dirty war" didn't let the perpetrators go unpunished after regime change; they took direct action to expose those who committed crimes and pressed for the repeal of amnesty laws. |
Today's Top Headlines - Donations under $8K to Trump 'election defense' instead go to president, RNC - Cracks Emerge in G.O.P. Support for Trump's Baseless Fraud Claims - 'Catastrophic' lack of hospital beds in Upper Midwest as coronavirus cases surge 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 Kimberly A. Hamlin Kamala Harris's candidacy shows a new path for women in public life: being judged as an autonomous human being, rather than as a wife or mother. This will be a radical change if it sticks. |
 by Danielle L. McGuire "The counting hadn't even started yet; the ballots hadn't yet arrived at the counting boards and already it was clear that the GOP challengers were there to sow confusion and suspicion." |
 by Kevin M. Kruse Abolishing the Electoral College isn't a radical idea. It had bipartisan support in the 1960s as a reform consistent with the Supreme Court's rulings that established "one person, one vote" as the core principle of representation in a constitutional democracy. |
 by Carol Anderson Every maneuver by Trump and his enablers to block voting was met with a more powerful and effective counter-maneuver by citizens. It had to be. |
 by Ed Simon "Far more capable tyrants than Trump have been felled by Pennsylvania. This vanquishing feels like George Meade turning back Picket's Charge at Gettysburg." |
 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The results of the 2020 election show that the Democratic Party will fail unless it is willing to abandon a futile effort to woo Republicans to the center and embrace popular policies that meet the needs of Democratic constituents. |
 by Erica R. Edwards and Sherie M. Randolph Since the late 1960s, Black feminist activists have viewed grass-roots participatory democracy as means of radically reversing systemic inequalities by enfranchising the disenfranchised and engaging the people who are routinely seen as politically untouchable in debate and consensus-building. |
 by Nolan L. Cabrera A scholar who studies racial dynamics on college campuses, argues the benefits of required ethnic studie courses outweigh their liabilities. |
 by Heather Cox Richardson Donald Trump saw the fading of his power to control political narratives as news organizations labeled his charges of election fraud as baseless. |
 by Jim Grossman "There is no shortage of contentious publications and conversations among professional historians about concepts like critical race theory or arguments like those advanced in the 1619 Project. But neither constitutes "child abuse," which is a serious crime." | 
Breaking News and Historians in the News Stay Up to Date! You can now receive a daily digest of news headlines posted on HNN by email. It's simple: Go Here! What follows is a streamlined list of stories. To see the full list: Go Here!  Ill-informed and arguably dangerous pronouncements about COVID-19 made by fellows of Stanford's Hoover Institution have brought longstanding tensions between the conservative think tank and the university's faculty to the surface. |
 Times Columnist Thomas B. Edsall interviews a number of historians for perspective on Trump's refusal to concede the election or acknowledge the legitimacy of his defeat. Although few think a coup is imminent, most agree that this is a dangerous precedent that is unlikely to vanish when Trump leaves the scene. |
 Ruby Bridges, whose integration of New Orleans Schools in 1960 was captured by Norman Rockwell, has written a children's history book about her experiences. |
 A recent paper by a researcher at th Schuyler Mansion looks into Alexander Hamilton's papers to argue that is reputation as an abolitionist is undeserved; he had personal dealings in purchasing enslaved laborers for his household. |
 John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how. |
 A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column." |
 "Even before the race was called, Mississippi's five Republicans in Congress released a joint statement that warned, without evidence, about the existence of "voting irregularities" across the country." |
 "Behind the scenes, Mr. Meacham has been playing a larger role than was previously known, both writing drafts of speeches and offering edits on many of Mr. Biden's big addresses, including one he gave at Gettysburg last month and his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August." | 
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