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 New York Times
Apr 5, 2020
In acknowledging that many of its artifacts had tainted histories and that others were fake, the institution hopes candor will build trust.
Source: PBS
Apr 5, 2020
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of “Why Trust Science?” explores whether or not the world's lack of preparation for the coronavirus outbreak has a silver lining.
Source: The New York Review of Books
Apr 5, 2020
Ten New York Review writers document their experiences with the coronavirus from all over the globe.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 5, 2020
But what Ellson wants people to know—“if I can preach for a minute,” she requested with a laugh—is that this, like everything else, will pass.
Source: The New York Times
Apr 3, 2020
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and Puerto Rico have rescheduled their contests.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 3, 2020
This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.
Source: Dissent
Apr 2, 2020
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
Source: New York Times
Apr 2, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief money is being spent.
Source: Artnet News
Apr 2, 2020
One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.
Source: Freedom Forum
Apr 2, 2020
“Be nice” — two words not found anywhere among the 45 words of the First Amendment.
Source: Daily Beast
Apr 2, 2020
While the president was still downplaying the COVID-19 epidemic, an Army briefing shared with The Daily Beast shows the service warning of the scale of death Trump now concedes.
Source: The Nation
Apr 1, 2020
The Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds.
Source: New York Times
Apr 1, 2020
While political leaders have locked their borders, scientists have been shattering theirs, creating a global collaboration unlike any in history.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 1, 2020
by Adam Serwer
Washington gridlock stems from the ideological conviction, held by much of the Republican Party, that the Democratic Party is inherently illegitimate and has no right to govern.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Mar 31, 2020
Why should it be easier to buy marijuana than a good book at a store in Los Angeles during the coronavirus shutdown?
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 31, 2020
There is a long history of world leaders framing fights against disease within the context of war.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 31, 2020
You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”
Source: New York Magazine
Mar 30, 2020
by Benjamin Wallace
Before he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.
Source: New York Magazine
Mar 30, 2020
Now that state-run electoral systems are in chaos in the midst of a pandemic, with no assurances the conditions for normal voting behavior will return by November, the odds of a contested general election (not just by Trump, but by elements of both parties) have gone up.
Source: New York Times
Mar 30, 2020
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
