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: Time
Apr 4, 2019
“The most comfortable position in the world is not lying in bed,” Caro says. “It’s sitting at this desk.”
Source: Slate
Apr 3, 2019
The provision dates in some form to the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren G. Harding’s administration.
Source: NY Times
Apr 2, 2019
The author Zora Neale Hurston discovered Redoshi, who became known as Sally Smith after being enslaved, while doing research for her literary works in the South.
Source: NY Times
Apr 2, 2019
The grants were announced two weeks after the Trump administration released a proposed budget for fiscal 2020 that called for closure of the agency, whose activities were described as lying outside of “core federal responsibilities.”
Source: News Observer
Apr 2, 2019
“The survivors are leaving us and along with their departures, we need to make sure that we live up to the mantra of ‘Never again,’” said Richard Schwartz, vice chairman of the N.C. Council on the Holocaust.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 2, 2019
by William J. Burns
An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.
Source: Vox
Apr 1, 2019
by Jennifer Victor
Jennifer Victor explains two of the biggest mistakes baked into US government from the start: slavery and suffrage.
Source: BBC News
Mar 31, 2019
John Fratta, from the Order of the Sons of Italy, says the apology is about making people more aware of the episode - particularly because "they don't teach this in schools".
Source: NY Times
Mar 30, 2019
A look back through the decades shows what went right in the early years of affirmative action in college admissions, but also what can go wrong even with the best of intentions.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 28, 2019
NASA canceled the first all-female spacewalk on March 26 because it only had one "readily usable" spacesuit that would fit Anne McClain and Christina Koch.
Source: NY Times
Mar 27, 2019
Racist objects, created as propaganda tools during the Jim Crow era, reflect ugly stereotypes about black people. Yet some people see nostalgia, not dehumanization, in the memorabilia.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 27, 2019
Last week, it emerged that the Brazilian president had ordered the country’s Defense Ministry to “carry out appropriate commemorations related to March 31, 1964.”
Source: NY Times
Mar 27, 2019
China is resisting the Trump administration’s demand that the United States be allowed to impose tariffs if Beijing fails to keep its promises.
Source: Science Magazine
Mar 27, 2019
The story of Giraffatitan's discovery in eastern Africa long ignored the crimes of German colonialism and the scientific contributions of local residents.
Source: Time
Mar 27, 2019
“There are plenty of cautionary tales strewn throughout the history of American special prosecutors,” says Andrew Coan.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 27, 2019
by Robert Wyss
This season marks the 150th anniversary of the first professional baseball team and the start of its eye-popping 81-game winning streak.
Source: NY Times
Mar 26, 2019
With this book, Jones invites us — indeed, challenges us — to look anew at the central paradox of the case.
Source: NY Times
Mar 26, 2019
But the end of the inquiry made clear that President Trump had successfully thrown out the unwritten rules that had bound other chief executives in the 45 years since President Richard M. Nixon.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 26, 2019
by Michelle L.D. Hanlon
You may be surprised to learn there are more than a hundred sites on the Moon with evidence of human activity.
Source: New Yorker
Mar 26, 2019
Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.
