#Casey Cep, "Rescue Work," The New Yorker, February 3, 2020.
"In the three decades before the Civil War, more than three hundred thousand men,women and children were sold in Richmond, the second-largest  slave market in the United States. "The struggle  over the physical record of slavery and uprising in Richmond is part of a larger, long-overdue national movement to reserve African American history. Of the more than ninety-five thousand        entries on the National Register of Historic Places -- the list of sites deemed worthy of preservation by the federal  government -- only three per cent focus on the experience of black Americans."

"Since its founding,the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), signed in 1966, has identified nearly two million locations worthy of preservation,and has engaged tens of millions of Americans in the work of doing so."

"African Americans constitute less than six per cent of the more than twenty thousand employees of the National Park Service, and they are under-represented in most other careers related to historic preservation, accounting for not quite four per cent of academic archeologists, five per cent of licensed architects and engineers, and less than one per cent of professional preservationists."

#Danille Carr, "Docs vs. the AMA," TIME, February 10, 2020.
"Since its rise in the early 20th century,the American Medical Association (AMA) has served as the most powerful umbrella organization for physician advocacy, and lobbying has proved instrumental in defeating every campaign for national health insurance in US history."

"Pressure from within has forced the AMA to withdraw from the Partnership for America's Health Care Future, an industry of insurance and hospital lobbies opposed to single-payer." "The AMA has long framed its opposition to nationalized health care as a defense of the individual freedom afforded by the free market. The irony, of course, is that its founding mission was to limit the depredations of the unregulated market by  halting the 'free trade in doctoring' that characterized the United States until the latter half of the 19th century. It has consistently subjected  health care reform to maintain the profitability of the care physicians provide."

"Private insurers  will ways offload those requiring the most expensive care unto the government payer." "Universal coverage can be achieved only through Medicare for All. The question is not     whether these doctors will succeed in demanding reform but whether the AMA will finally join them."

#Steve Coll, "After Impeachment," The New Yorker,"  February 17 & 24, 2020.
In describing Sen. Mitt Romney' impeachment speech, Steve Coll wrote: "In eloquent remarks, he described the President's conduct as a 'flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security,and our fundamental values.' He went on: 'Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.' 'By now, any dispassionate reading of the Mueller report, the impeachment investigation, and the accumulating record of journalism can lead to but one conclusion: we have been warned.' "

ADDENDUMS:
*While defending his since-canceled plan to hold this year's G-7 Summit at his Doral, Florida resort, Trump referred to the "phony emoluments clause" in the Constitution.
*Reporter Yanriche asked the question about the disbanded Pandemic Group. Trump answered: "You say me. I didn't do it. You say we did that. I don't know anything about it." He called her question "nasty."