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: NPR
Nov 28, 2022
A famine 90 years ago killed four million Ukrainians—and possibly more, deaths survivors blamed on Soviet Russia. The commemoration is a rallying point of resistance to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Source: New York Times
Nov 28, 2022
By identifying the sources of skulls in its collection, France's Museum of Mankind fears it might open itself to demands for restitution.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 27, 2022
Activists identify a German fascination with the American South as part of an effort to portray modern, increasingly multicultural Germany, as a white nation.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 25, 2022
The ballet's roots in the celebration of czarist absolutism and imperial expansion doesn't jibe with its modern status as an anodyne holiday classic.
Source: Jezebel
Nov 22, 2022
by Kim Kelly
The Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama has been on for more than 600 days. Labor writer Kim Kelly links miners' endurance to the work of women workers, miners' wives, and other women in past labor struggles.
Source: New York Times
Nov 22, 2022
A legacy of innovation spurred by Hungarian clubs in the 1930s and 1950s sustained high quality soccer in eastern Europe through the fall of communism, but changing economic and social currents have diminished the competitiveness of former eastern bloc countries in today's big-money game.
Source: Vox
Nov 21, 2022
As the number of students promises to contract in coming years, the workforces and communities that depend on small colleges and regional public universities face dire prospects.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Nov 21, 2022
by Jean Guerrero
Both the activists behind two Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action and the funding network that supports them have close ties to overt white nationalists and anti-immigration leaders, suggesting that the lawsuits are less about fairness for all than about advantage for whites.
Source: Jacobin
Nov 20, 2022
Despite "disappearing" 30,000 political opponents, FIFA allowed Argentina's military dicatorship to host the 1978 World Cup.
Source: NextCity
Nov 18, 2022
Will the success of the Philadelphia Museum of Art workers' strike help push more museums toward paying livable wages to their workers?
Source: Public Books
Nov 17, 2022
by Clara E. Mattei
Austerity politics isn't simply about balancing government's books; it is a political means of declaring the primacy of capital.
Source: Defector
Nov 15, 2022
"Without its armada of researchers and grad students, the UC system is essentially a baroque real estate scam." Those workers argue they deserve much more from the system in exchange for the labor that makes it run.
Source: Facing South
Nov 15, 2022
Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 14, 2022
by Linda Greenhouse
As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 12, 2022
Educators argue that the proposed standards are politically motivated and slant instruction toward right-wing ideological positions.
Source: TIME
Nov 12, 2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Political scientists find that the prediction of a wave election failed for a number of reasons.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 11, 2022
Antismoking PSAs shifted attention from individual smokers to the tobacco companies profiting from selling dangerous products. Can the same work to reduce the appeal of guns?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Nov 9, 2022
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion, argue the L.A. Times editors, that the University of California system must make wage concessions to allow their graduate student workers to afford housing anywhere near their campuses.
Source: AL.com
Nov 9, 2022
"If faculty approve the current proposal, some students may be able to graduate without taking a college-level history, literature or language course."
Source: Washington Post
Nov 9, 2022
"Through sheer perseverance and patience, Mr. Lazar became a kind of Zen master of the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, a provision enacted in 1967 that allowed the public a centralized way to request unclassified government material."
