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: ABC Religion and Ethics
Mar 30, 2020
For a case study in coping with disappointment in the context of isolation and social distancing, we find a surprising source of help in Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Source: New York Post
Mar 30, 2020
“I remember reading that she called her paper the next day and held the phone out the window [so they could hear the gunfire and chaos] and said, ‘It’s happening right now!'”
Source: American Civil War Museum
Mar 30, 2020
The presence of new citizens in the form of formerly enslaved people forced Congress to consider what citizenship and voting actually meant.
Source: Fortune
Mar 30, 2020
The USPS is the federal government’s most favorably viewed agency, with an approval rating of 90%.
Source: New York Times
Mar 30, 2020
Around the world, the history of our present moment is taking shape in journal entries and drawings.
Source: The Nation
Mar 30, 2020
by Jeet Heer
Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists.
Source: New York Times
Mar 30, 2020
No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.
Source: High Country News
Mar 30, 2020
by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Source: Vox
Mar 30, 2020
The Great Recession in 2008 was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity. Just 12 years later, the United States is facing a far more daunting crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: Penn Live
Mar 30, 2020
On March 30,1981 President Ronald Reagan was shot while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C..
Source: Associated Press
Mar 29, 2020
The north-south divide that has dogged the European Union for years has resurfaced as the virus has galloped across the continent.
Source: New York Times
Mar 29, 2020
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage.
Source: Detroit Free Press
Mar 29, 2020
How similar is coronavirus mobilization to World War II mobilization?
Source: Vice
Mar 29, 2020
“A civil war really broke out between the military veterans of Vietnam over this design,” said Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 29, 2020
For the past 40 years, the Chinese government has promoted the wild animal trade as a form of rural economic development.
Source: The New York Times
Mar 29, 2020
As Asian-Americans face racist attacks and President Trump has tied the virus to China, community and political leaders have tried to comfort constituents. But even they admit to feeling unnerved.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 29, 2020
Five lessons from 1940s Britain about national resilience and social solidarity during a crisis.
Source: New York Times
Mar 28, 2020
Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 28, 2020
Some “Twilight Zone” stories are especially relevant to life under self-quarantine, and some episodes of the classic series can be a diverting emotional escape.
Source: New York Times
Mar 28, 2020
The Coronavirus Task Force squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread. Instead, Americans were left largely blind to the scale of a looming public health catastrophe.
