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: Washington Post
Dec 16, 2022
As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history.
Source: The New Republic
Dec 16, 2022
The novelist targeted the absurdities and self-congratulation of utilitarian philosophers, the forerunners of the tech industry's "effective altruism," in his 1854 "Hard Times."
Source: The New Republic
Dec 15, 2022
Governments are entirely unprepared to respond to the potential of private companies to produce de-extinction of wildlife.
Source: Mother Jones
Dec 15, 2022
"Suicide by Cop" emerged as a descriptive phrase in the context of a crackdown on crime and an abandonment of police accountability, making a large portion of killings by officers seem natural and unavoidable.
Source: The Baffler
Dec 15, 2022
by Mackenzie Lukenbill
The collected papers of AIDS educator and activist Chloe Dzubilo stand as a "counter-archive," which does not just preserve a record of the past but makes it a trigger for thought and action in the present.
Source: Undark
Dec 14, 2022
by Deborah Blum
A researcher discovered a pattern in the experimental vetting of SAT test questions in the 1990s: questions on which Black students outscored White students in trials were usually excluded from future tests. This practice is linked back to the roots of IQ testing in the eugenics movement.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 14, 2022
by Ryan Busse
"As bad as America’s gun-violence problem is, it could be about to get much worse," says former gun industry insider turned whistleblower. The selective reading of the historical record advanced by Justice Thomas's opinion would force judges to play historian to decide cases, destabilizing gun law in many ways.
Source: New York Times
Dec 14, 2022
Civil Rights lawyer Ron Kuby called the fire a blow to "the hopes and dreams of uncounted innocent people."
Source: New York Times
Dec 13, 2022
Major American institutions are loath to acknowledge that they enabled the rehabilitation of Nazi scientists and industrialists to benefit from their knowledge or wealth.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 13, 2022
At the New School (as well as at image-minded companies like Starbucks) an educated workforce and a progressive clientele increasingly expects management's treatment of workers to match its stated values, writes Post columnist Helaine Olen.
Source: NextCity
Dec 13, 2022
In 1987, there were an estimated 206 lesbian bars across the U.S. Phoenix's Boycott Bar is one of fewer than two dozen that remain today.
Source: War on the Rocks
Dec 13, 2022
by Kori Schake
"If America wants to retain a military that recruits from all parts of the citizenry and brings them together into an effective fighting force, it should both correct that public perception and better insulate the military from being a pawn in partisan political disputes."
Source: NPR
Dec 12, 2022
Stefan Grossman started studying Davis's fingerpicked style after the older man had settled in the Bronx in the 1960s.
Source: New York Times
Dec 12, 2022
"In practice, the books most frequently targeted for removal have been by or about Black or L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Dec 12, 2022
Withholding grading labor as students return to campus after the COVID years is a risky move but at the New School, faculty built some solidarity with students that bolstered their position. Will that work in the University of California system?
Source: The Nation
Dec 12, 2022
The likes of Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan were eager to use the symbolism of food to characterize Democrats as scolds, busybodies, and elitists. What Americans eat has been difficult to untangle from politics ever since.
Source: New York Times
Dec 11, 2022
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps texts offer information on a wide variety of subjects, including military history, without the kind of oversight that mainstream textbooks receive. The result is a curriculum shot through with right-wing ideology and historical myth.
Source: NBC News
Dec 10, 2022
Along with cofounding Ms. Magazine, she was a leader in connecting women's liberation to social welfare policies, child services, and domestic violence.
Source: The Baffler
Dec 8, 2022
by Kim Kelly
Why did the "most pro-union president" in modern times push through a negotiated settlement rejected by the majority of railroad union members, and what would Eugene Debs think?
Source: Washington Post
Dec 6, 2022
Stewart's label in its heyday trailed only Motown Records as a purveyor of soul music, and the label's house bands created a distinctive and enduring style associated with Memphis.
