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: New York Times
Nov 13, 2020
Since March, four museums in the Netherlands and Denmark have been broken into, and memorabilia, including Nazi uniforms, has been stolen.
Source: New York Times
Nov 13, 2020
New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
Source: New York Times
Nov 13, 2020
Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by members of a Black militant group in 1985, starting a fire that destroyed 60 homes and killed 11 people.
Source: New York Times
Nov 13, 2020
Al Howard, a Black NYPD officer, was able to save Dr. King from a stabbing in a New York department store in 1958, potentially changing the course of history.
Source: New York Times
Nov 13, 2020
by Jamelle Bouie
The Times Opinion columnist contents that the electoral college infects American politics with uncertainty and the multiple opportunities to contest the result. This not only is undemocratic, it undermines faith in democracy.
Source: Politico
Nov 12, 2020
According to her top tags on RateMyProfessors.com, Dr. Jill Biden gives her students “good feedback” and is “respected” and “inspirational,” but she’s also a “tough grader” who gives “lots of homework.”
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2020
"Ms. Hambling’s sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard."
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2020
"The series provides a steady succession of parallels between Reagan and Donald J. Trump, none labeled as such but all difficult to miss."
Source: Washington Post
Nov 12, 2020
by Alexandra Petri
The Washington Post's house satirist gets medieval on the voter fraud allegations.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Nov 12, 2020
by F. King Alexander
Without additional stimulus, further state disinvestment is imminent, significantly limiting accessible and affordable educational opportunities for students across America.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 11, 2020
In its sharp and splashy fourth season, the show finally criticizes Elizabeth for her ignorance, characterizing her as a ruler whose stubborn devotion to tradition makes her and her family out-of-touch fools caught off guard by change.
Source: WBUR
Nov 11, 2020
John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 11, 2020
"Even before the race was called, Mississippi’s five Republicans in Congress released a joint statement that warned, without evidence, about the existence of “voting irregularities” across the country."
Source: The Baffler
Nov 10, 2020
A 2020 report on global poverty suggests that the problem is getting worse, directly attacking the methodologies the World Bank has used for decades to justify global capitalism as an anti-poverty program.
Source: Vox
Nov 10, 2020
"It strips out Vance’s sociopolitical commentary entirely, which, however you feel about the commentary, leaves the story without an all-important ingredient: a political and sociological point."
Source: NPR
Nov 10, 2020
NPR court analyst Nina Totenberg discusses the case being argued today in front of the new 6-3 conservative majority which could jeopardize millions of people's health insurance during the COVID pandemic.
Source: Anadisgoi
Nov 10, 2020
In 1863, Cherokee Nation passed an act to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, and later those freed slaves and their descendants were granted “all the rights of native Cherokees” through the Treaty of 1866.
Source: Library of Congress
Nov 10, 2020
Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on November 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 9, 2020
Ill-informed and arguably dangerous pronouncements about COVID-19 made by fellows of Stanford's Hoover Institution have brought longstanding tensions between the conservative think tank and the university's faculty to the surface.
Source: WAMU
Nov 9, 2020
The National Native American Veterans Memorial will open with virtual programming, including a tour and video tribute, on Wednesday, November 11.
