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
May 4, 2020
The award for commentary went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her centerpiece essay for the Times's much-discussed 1619 project.
Source: The National (UAE)
May 4, 2020
The convergence of the climate crisis and the COVID emergency means that governments should invest now in the infrastructure needed to speed the transition to a carbon-free energy system.
Source: New York Magazine
May 4, 2020
Will the ignominious political fate of Herbert Hoover await Donald Trump when voters deliver a verdict on his tumultuous presidency in November?
Source: Seattle Times
May 4, 2020
Before inspiring "The Dude," Jeff Dowd was a Seattle activist who led students to block Interstate 5 in Seattle to protest the war in Vietnam and the killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State.
Source: The Atlantic
May 3, 2020
America’s response to the pandemic harkens back to ugly times in our country’s history. But to recognize that, we need to know our elders’ stories.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
May 3, 2020
Over the years, the city of Santee has worked to overcome a history of racially motivated attacks and skinhead activity that led to nicknames such as “Klantee.”
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
May 3, 2020
A Ukrainian filmmaker's controversial methods and subject matter have sparked criticism of his leadership of a memorial project for the massacre by Nazis and local collaborators of 150,000 people (including 50,000 Jews) at Babyn Yar, outside Kyiv.
Source: The Hill
May 3, 2020
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state Capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history.
Source: New York Post
May 3, 2020
Germany’s Catholic bishops have acknowledged that they were “complicit” in allowing the Nazis to rise to power.
Source: Huffington Post
May 3, 2020
The "work sets you free" sign repeated the inscription on the gates of Auschwitz and was aimed at the Jewish governor of Illinois.
Source: The New Yorker
May 2, 2020
by Casey Cep
For the past forty years, Republicans have been seeking to starve, strangle, and sabotage the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to privatize one of the oldest and most important public goods in American history.
Source: The Hill
May 2, 2020
Gen-Z conservatives do not take for granted that the COVID-19 crisis will lead their peers to left-wing politics.
Source: New York Times
May 2, 2020
Leaders like Elizabeth Warren are hoping that the current crisis will spur the kind of labor organizing that happened in the 1930s as workers fight for economic survival.
Source: Smithsonian
May 1, 2020
As the 50th anniversary of the Kent State killings passed this week, the University had been advancing along a difficult path to acknowledge the events and introduce new students to the campus's tragic history.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 30, 2020
The Association of Art Museum Directors has relaxed its guidelines against selling works of art for operating funds. Now, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole—or to fend off a total financial meltdown—is suddenly something to contemplate.
Source: Yonhap News Agency
Apr 29, 2020
Kim Bok-dong, a former sex slavery victim-turned human rights activist received a posthumous award from Amnesty International.
Source: New York Times Magazine
Apr 29, 2020
New Orleans's famed Krewe of Zulu celebrated Mardi Gras as federal and state health officials proclaimed low risk for Coronavirus. In two months, 30 members would have COVID-19 and eight would be dead, illustrating dire and longstanding racial disparities in health in America.
Source: Foreign Policy
Apr 29, 2020
The dispute over a statue of a Soviet Army officer in Prague reflects Russian efforts to claim a heroic role in defeating fascism, eastern European nationalism, and contemporary power dynamics in the region.
Source: Foreign Policy
Apr 29, 2020
The drastic changes to American national security policy instituted after 9/11 helped make the nation vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak and less able to fight it.
Source: NY Daily News
Apr 28, 2020
While art historians have been able to employ state-of-the-art imaging techniques to establish a more precise analysis of the artwork — often referred to as the "Dutch ‘Mona Lisa’” — its subject remains a mystery.
