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: The New Yorker
June 12, 2017
by Robin Wright
A first person account.
Source: The Washington Post
June 12, 2017
The fight against civil rights brought it back.
Source: NYT
June 13, 2017
Few countries have ever grown from client state to regional power. Qatar managed it in just a few years.
Source: Bloomberg
June 12, 2017
by Timothy L. O'Brien
"Trump sued me, then had to acknowledge 30 times during a deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues."
Source: USA Today
June 12, 2017
Twelve states already have adopted the group’s call, and its leaders hope to add 10 to 15 next year. A separate effort demanding a convention to consider a balanced budget amendment already has the support of 27 states.
Source: The Daily Beast
June 12, 2017
But when they showed up they found out otherwise.
Source: The Conversation
June 8, 2017
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone.
Source: NYT
June 11, 2017
He’s got media allies. Nixon didn’t.
Source: Fredericksburg.com
June 10, 2017
The interior of a circular Virginia Mist granite memorial at the University of Virginia will bear the names of nearly 1,000 enslaved workers from between 1817 and 1865.
Source: CNN
June 8, 2017
It's a line that Henry II, the king of England, has been quoted historically as uttering in 1170 during a years-long feud with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Source: The Conversation
June 9, 2017
Lessons from the last time the US added a star to its flag.
Source: MPR News
June 9, 2017
But many in Minnesota haven’t heard of what happened to the Mankato.
Source: The Washington Post
June 10, 2017
In a 70-page legal brief responding to a liberal watchdog group’s lawsuit, the administration said that market-rate payments for goods or services made to the president’s real estate, hotel and golf companies do not constitute emoluments as defined by the Constitution.
Source: ABC New (Australia)
June 10, 2017
In the early 1960s Washington was a city on edge and the threat of a nuclear attack was not far from the minds of the powerful.
Source: National Security Archive
June 8, 2017
Japan’s long-standing aspirations to develop a "plutonium economy" troubled U.S. officials going back decades as early as the Jimmy Carter administration.
Source: The Times of London
June 5, 2017
One of the most acerbic diarists of his generation has revealed that he excised references to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s racial prejudices.
Source: The State
June 7, 2017
Furman University has established a task force, The Task Force on Slavery and Justice, that will help Furman and the larger community understand the role slaves may have played in the university's early history.
Source: NYT
June 7, 2017
Newly discovered fossils indicate Homo sapiens were present in Africa 300,000 years ago, scientists reported. Until now, the earliest evidence dated back just 195,000 years.
Source: The American Scholar
May 7, 2017 (accessed)
by Cathy Otten
A first-person account shows it’s a legacy in ruins.
Source: Time Magazine
June 4, 2017
For the 28th year in succession, a sea of light illuminated Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 in commemoration of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
