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
Jan 9, 2023
Experience as a stain-remover in laundry work helped the teenaged Kaminsky to remove supposedly indelible ink from French ID cards, enabling Jews to escape deportation.
Source: Popular Information
Jan 9, 2023
by Judd Legum
The classroom conduct and public social media statements of a Florida teacher who is exercising the provisions of new legislation to ban books presenting Black perspectives on racism show that the law can easily be hijacked by motivated bigots.
Source: NPR
Jan 7, 2023
The availability of clear records tying British families – like that of actor Benedict Cumberbatch – to Caribbean slavery has made the movement for reparations in Barbados and other island nations very visible, if not yet successful.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Jan 6, 2023
University of Texas professor Elizabeth Keating was shocked by how few of her students could discuss their own family's history, and created a guide to investigating.
Source: The New Republic
Jan 6, 2023
by Thomas Geoghegan
The Founders would find the debt ceiling a ludicrous concept; it's time to take this instrument of blackmail out of the legislative process. The Biden administration should provoke a court fight over the law as an unconstitutional limit on the government's ability to pay its debts.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 6, 2023
After appointees of Glen Younkin rejected the detailed standards developed in consultation with historians, educators and museum professionals in favor of a stripped-down document with little attention to the history minority groups, a new draft has explicitly mandated discussions of racism in the K-12 curriculum.
Source: New York Magazine
Jan 3, 2023
The current editors of Ms. consider the publication's legacy as a maker, not just a reporter, of news.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 3, 2023
by Emma Pettit
The governor appears to be trying to document the expenditure of state funds to implement any program, including academic instruction, reated to "Critical Race Theory" or "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" in the state.
Source: Just Security
Jan 3, 2023
by Jon Lewis
A domestic extremism researcher argues that the committee's report lets law enforcement and intelligence agencies off the hook for their evaluation of the theat of right-wing violence at the Capitol and makes a future incident more likely.
Source: Reuters
Jan 3, 2023
Six million Poles, including three million Polish Jews, were killed during the second world war. Poland's nationalist government seeks to void agreements made under Communism to release Germany from liability.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 2, 2023
Devon Henry didn't seek the job of removing a dozen Confederate memorials in Richmond, but local white-owned vendors refused the contracts. He has received death threats and wears a bulletproof vest at job sites.
Source: New York Times
Jan 2, 2023
Franjo Tudjman, whose post-Yugoslavia brand of ethnonationalism has been harshly criticized, remains a favorite of the Croatian right. It's unclear how casting Kevin Spacey to play him will help polish his image, however.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 30, 2022
by Ronald G. Shafer
Kevin McCarthy's unfolding nightmare of failing to unify his party has nothing on the battle to choose a Speaker in 1855 (so far).
Source: The Nation
Dec 21, 2022
by Eric Alterman
Since the 1970s, an alliance between Christian and Jewish conservatives has been brokered over mutual support for Israel's occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Are changing attitudes toward the occupation among American Jews and the naked antisemitism of the MAGA right breaking the alliance?
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 20, 2022
by Alan Z. Rozenshtein and Jed Shugerman
The defense that Trump's speech about a stolen election, even if deliberately untruthful, constitutes protected political speech is plausible, but prosecutors can situate the remarks in the context of other actions to overturn the election.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 20, 2022
As Jews around the world are considering Israel as a refuge from antisemitism, that country's religious fundamentalist parties have the political leverage to decide that many fewer people are Jewish enough to qualify for immigration and citizenship. American Reform Jews are particularly affected.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dec 19, 2022
Understanding AMLO's popularity—he is by some measures the most domestically popular leader in the world—requires leaving the elite precincts of Mexico City, ignoring the statements of wealthy opponents, and visiting the impoverished regions of southern Mexico.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 19, 2022
Lion Feuchtwanger's "The Oppermans" captures the complexity of a dilemma faced by German Jews in 1933: whether a society has become sufficiently hostile to a minority group to force its members to leave.
Source: NPR
Dec 17, 2022
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that the revocation of the physicist's clearance after his opposition to the US hydrogen bomb project was the result of a biased process, one historian Kai Bird calls a "kangaroo court."
Source: Washington Post
Dec 17, 2022
Influential ads produced by Shakespeare helped Nixon to associate crime and disorder with opponents and overcome suspicion of Nixon's character and personality.
