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: Politico
May 22, 2018
Trump’s allegations about FBI surveillance may be baseless. But it actually happened to Barry Goldwater.
Source: NYT
May 23, 2018
There are several potential outcomes while Mr. Trump is president.
Source: Newsweek
May 23, 2018
“If you look at the policies of Donald Trump, OK, anybody—Martin Luther King would be proud of him and what he's done for the black and hispanic community for jobs.”
Source: WSJ
May 22, 2018
Case in point: This op ed in the Wall Street Journal, which notes that North Korea offered to return the ship in 2005 for high-level talks.
Source: The Conversation
May 23, 2018
by Alan Marcus
The reason is that we will soon not be able to rely on witness testimonies.
Source: The Conversation
May 22, 2018
by Barry Godfrey and Steven Soper
A study of nearly 25,000 prison register entries shows how connections between race and imprisonment started in the 1860s.
Source: The Washington Post
May 20, 2018
The same year that 16,899 U.S. soldiers died at the peak of the Vietnam War.
Source: Newsweek
May 21, 2018
A new study has dashed all the conspiracy theories, whether mundane or bizarre.
Source: The Boston Globe
May 20, 2018
The award, established by members of the Kennedy family to honor JFK after his 1963 assassination, recognizes and celebrates “the quality of political courage that he admired most,” according to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Source: CNN
May 18, 2018
Trump shares the term "witch hunt" with Richard Nixon, who was reported to have used it about Watergate hearings.
Source: Slate
May 18, 2018
Black Mormons wish it was real.
Source: NYT
May 18, 2018
The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats' objections.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2018
Watergate has long been the touchstone for modern American scandal, the mountain of misconduct against which all others are judged.
Source: The New Yorker
May 18, 2018
Fox News’s Bret Baier wants you to think he just might be.
Source: Time Magazine
May 17, 2018
Protests called for a formal promise from the city and the foundation that South Siders will not be hurt by the project.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2018
The upheaval of 50 years ago is hardly history at the movies — from zombies to concerns about male-dominated Hollywood, what happened continues to reverberate.
Source: History channel
May 16, 2018
The president was Andrew Johnson. The Senate declined to convict him.
Source: The Aspen Institute
May 16, 2018
The project was created to teach Americans how to avoid papering over their differences and instead argue better.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2018
The Dutch art dealer Jan Six says that he has discovered a new Rembrandt, a portrait of an unidentified young man that he purchased at a Christie’s auction in London.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2018
Kim doesn't want a deal like Qaddafi got given what happened to him.
