This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Vox
June 26, 2018
He also knew calls for “civility” often serve to enforce the status quo.
Source: The Washington Post
June 26, 2018
A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” – and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
Source: Politico
June 26, 2018
Congress’ recent tax and spending laws — along with ballooning costs of government programs have jacked up federal spending in President Donald Trump’s first term.
Source: Time Magazine
June 26, 2018
The decision explicitly renounced the Korematsu decision.
Source: NYT
June 26, 2018
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
Source: NYT
June 26, 2018
Instead of returning the statue to its original glory, the so-called restoration left St. George looking more like a childish model of a cartoon character than a precious piece of art.
Source: The Washington Post
June 23, 2018
The waiter died. The congressman was acquitted.
Source: The Washington Post
June 25, 2018
In one troublesome sentence she had written of the west: “there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”
Source: Rudaw
June 21, 2018
Many old Islamic, Jewish, and Christian historical sites were damaged.
Source: CNN
June 22, 2018
42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Source: The Center for Michigan
June 12, 2018
References to gay rights, Roe v. Wade, climate change and “core democratic values” have been stripped from Michigan’s new proposed social studies standards.
Source: Pew Research Center
June 18, 2018
The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements.
Source: The Cook Political Report
June 21, 2018
For, one, Trump’s job approval rating in the Gallup survey is 45 percent, eight points higher than the dismal 37 percent where George W. Bush was sitting at this point in 2006.
Source: AP
June 22, 2018
Have America’s protests changed so they rely more on the masses and less on one captivating leader? The answer, some experts say, is yes.
Source: Raw Story
June 21, 2018
Of course, no president serviced 16 years. No one in his circle has corrected him.
Source: Fox23
June 22, 2018
Here are 3 heartbreaking examples from history.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 21, 2018
From the moment the Department of Education was born, critics — Republicans, almost exclusively — have sought to dismantle it.
Source: Smithsonian
June 21, 2018
A new initiative titled She Built NYC is asking New Yorkers to recommend potential subjects for the monument.
Source: NYT
June 19, 2018
Charleston, the South Carolina port city where about 40 percent of enslaved Africans who were brought to North America landed after being taken from their homelands, has become the latest city to apologize for its role in the slave trade.
Source: NPR
June 21, 2018
With his policy of "America First," President Trump has a very different take on this complex web of treaties and alliances set up and shaped by the U.S. over the past seven decades.
