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 Washington Post
May 17, 2017
by Tony Schwartz
"Trump’s sense of self-worth is forever at risk. When he feels aggrieved, he reacts impulsively and defensively."
Source: Business Insider
May 16, 2017
20% of respondents believe that Trump would have stopped the Civil War from happening if he was alive at the time, whereas 16% of respondents believe Jackson would have if he was.
Source: NPR
May 17, 2017
Workers removed a statue of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard on horseback from its spot at the entrance of City Park. One more statue remains to be taken down, of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Source: Edge Effects
May 17, 2017
by Brian Hamilton
The Slavery Research Group's plans include a conference on Faulkner’s relationship to slavery.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
May 16, 2017
The idea that at some point party loyalty goes out the window and politicians become nonpartisan statesmen doesn’t hold up historically.
Source: Bloomberg
May 15, 2017
by Noah Feldman
Why federal laws that criminalize the revealing of secrets don’t apply to the president.
Source: The Washington Post
May 15, 2017
Nixon wasn’t the only president to record his conversations.
Source: The Washington Post
May 13, 2017
If it doesn’t seem that way, that’s got more to do with the insatiable appetites of social media and cable news than with reality.
Source: Political Wire
May 13, 2017
While other U.S. leaders have shied away from Nixon parallels given the politician’s fateful end, Mr Trump appears to have embraced the comparison, in some ways taking up Nixon’s mantle, the Nixon scholar Douglas Brinkley said.
Source: WaPo
May 14, 2017
The evening protest was short-lived. About 10 minutes in, an altercation between Spencer’s group and counterprotesters drew police to the scene, and the crowd quickly dispersed.
Source: NYT
May 11, 2017
Crews, wearing masks to cover their faces, worked under a heavy police presence starting at 3 a.m. Thursday to dismantle the statue, which was erected in 1911, nearly 50 years after the end of the war, and commissioned by the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.
Source: Slate
May 11, 2017
The phrase has been in common use since the 1930s.
Source: US News
May 10, 2017
by James Warren
"Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' was clearly a sinister act and effort to kill an investigation. What is not clear is whether Trump has botched this or it is a sinister act."
Source: NBC News
May 12, 2017
"San Francisco was fertile ground for an emerging counterculture movement that blossomed into a season that changed the world, giving rise to art, technologies, revolutionary politics, the international hippie lifestyle, and fostering emerging rock musicians."
Source: NYT
May 10, 2017
German military police searching through barracks turned up Nazi-era military memorabilia that revealed a much broader presence of far-right extremists in the German Army’s ranks, something commanders are now accused of having long ignored.
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
“When I was young, I’d think ‘Oh God, here comes another guy telling me how great my father was.’ Now, I’m trying to be more like my father was.”
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, on Friday ordered his government to abolish state-issued history textbooks for middle and high school students, his first move to erase the unpopular legacies of his impeached and ousted predecessor, Park Geun-hye.
Source: The Atlantic
May 11, 2017
The term is often narrowly described, but under certain circumstances, one can be triggered.
Source: National Security Archive
May 10, 2017
U.S. officials weighed but rejected many options including tactical nukes.
Source: NYT
May 9, 2017
It doesn’t happen often, but for the second time in the F.B.I.’s 109-year-history, its director has been fired.
