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: NPR
Oct 27, 2020
NPR's David Greene talks to election law expert Rick Hasen about Monday's Supreme Court decision that may offer a a window into how the court could rule over a contested Election Day outcome.
Source: The New Yorker
Oct 26, 2020
Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.
Source: New York Times
Oct 26, 2020
The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism.
Source: The New Republic
Oct 26, 2020
A new documentary, “537 Votes,” takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then.
Source: The New Yorker
Oct 26, 2020
“The Good Lord Bird” roots for Brown, but it has no patience for hagiography.
Source: New York Magazine
Oct 26, 2020
While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.
Source: New York Magazine
Oct 26, 2020
“This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.
Source: NPR
Oct 26, 2020
Governor Ralph Northam wrote that Virginians expect universities to "eschew outdated traditions that glamorize a history rooted in rebellion against the United States."
Source: KJZZ
Oct 26, 2020
Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”
Source: New York Times
Oct 26, 2020
By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion.
Source: Variety
Oct 26, 2020
More bluntly, in keeping with the tone of MC5 songs like “Kick Out the Jams,” Kramer said, “Give me a break with your jive bulls—.”
Source: Academe Blog
Oct 26, 2020
by Chris Arney
"The West Point faculty model and its policies have been evolving since Congress mandated the inclusion of more civilian faculty members in the 1990s. However, the clash of ideals and teaching methods between the academic and military cultures still exists, sometimes resulting in civilian-military discord and disagreement over values and process."
Source: Los Angeles Times
Oct 26, 2020
“Regardless of what was done with the money, it was just wrong for us to take it in the first place. It’s antithetical to everything that the school stands for.”
Source: Mother Jones
Oct 26, 2020
Joe Biden has proposed something akin to the CCC if elected: the Civilian Climate Corps. Workers would manage forests, restore ecosystems, and even remove invasive species.
Source: Washington Post
Oct 25, 2020
Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development.
Source: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Oct 23, 2020
A picture is emerging, but it will take years to sort out. One thing is clear, though: Leo and his allies have amassed a massive war chest of anonymous donations for their fight to remake the federal judiciary.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Oct 22, 2020
The position of ethnic studies in university curricula reflects changing intellectual currents but also longstanding battles over resources and power in higher education institutions.
Source: Current Affairs
Oct 22, 2020
by Nathan J. Robinson
While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.
Source: Defense One
Oct 22, 2020
Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service.
Source: New York Magazine
Oct 22, 2020
Liberals in the legal profession and legal academia have begun to grapple with the idea that the courts serve power as much as justice, and norms of collegiality are part of the problem. Are they prepared to embrace a more confrontational and openly political idea of the law?
