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 Atlantic
Dec 7, 2020
Atlantic writer Zeynep Tufekci argues that Americans should take no sense of security from the seeming collapse of Trump's efforts to stay in power; the next attempt may be competently managed.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Dec 6, 2020
College administrators have invoked financial exigency to make radical revisions to the tenure protections enjoyed by faculty and diminish the faculty role in campus governance. The American Association of University Professors calls it a crisis.
Source: Haaretz
Dec 6, 2020
The annual Hanukkah concert at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam resumed in 2015 after a hiatus that began with Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Many Dutch Jews hope that the event will support unity in a community that is diverse in terms of observance and smaller in number than it was in 1946.
Source: Algemeiner
Dec 6, 2020
Two cases test the doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity to determine whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to return works of art to heirs of Jewish art dealers dispossessed by Nazis in 1935.
Source: New York Post
Dec 6, 2020
Unexploded munitions from war pose a potentially serious threat to the public, as a construction crew in Frankfurt discovered recently.
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2020
Canadians are debating whether a documentary released at the fiftieth anniversary of a campaign of political violence by Quebecois separatists valorizes terrorism and ignores peaceful progress toward a bicultural Canada; the filmmaker is the son of one of the convicted conspirators.
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2020
The late author's family has issued an apology for the impact of Roald Dahl's public antisemitic comments, suggesting that for good and ill Dahl's life shows the need to be aware of the power of words.
Source: New York Times
Dec 5, 2020
Middle Collegiate Church was a beacon of inclusion and tolerance for its congregants and the surrounding community. The damaged building was 128 years old, but the congregation originated before the American Revolution.
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
Dec 4, 2020
A collection of links to audio or video of some of the most important speeches of the Civil Rights Era.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Dec 4, 2020
The Royal Navy identified the mine as a German device dating to the World War II era and detonated it underwater.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Dec 4, 2020
The killing of a social studies teacher has opened French academics to accusations of supporting radical Islamists and undermining France's policy of national secularism; those who turn a critical lens to French colonialism and racism in contemporary France have received sharp criticism from nationalist and center-right politicians.
Source: New York Times
Dec 4, 2020
A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 3, 2020
Two new comedy series revisit the trope of the American abroad; one works because it looks critically, if humorously, at the idea of American exceptionalism.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 3, 2020
The proposed museums would follow the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.
Source: New York Times
Dec 3, 2020
A group of more than 30 artists and academics have signed a letter asking institutions like the Museum of Modern Art to excise the influential architect’s name from their spaces.
Source: New York Times
Dec 3, 2020
"As the generation who lived through the war fades away, Japan’s opposing political sides are vying to reinterpret the kamikaze for a public still divided over the conflict’s legacy."
Source: New York Times
Dec 3, 2020
Can you ace the new test for becoming a naturalized US Citizen?
Source: Washington Post
Dec 2, 2020
Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 2, 2020
One of the founders of the American Indian Movement has died. Eddie Benton-Banai came to focus his activism more on education and the preservation of indigenous heritage than the militant tactics of other AIM leaders, but was key to the movement's growth.
Source: New York Times
Dec 2, 2020
Trump would join several one-term presidents who sought a non-consecutive second term. The effort ended badly for most of them.
