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: The Guardian
Nov 30, 2018
Change prompts concern that country’s media is trying to rewrite wartime history under rightwing pressure.
Source: NYT
Nov 29, 2018
The top court upheld a lower-court ruling that ordered Mitsubishi to pay each of five women 100 million won to 150 million won, or about $89,000 to $133,000.
Source: The New Indian Express
Nov 29, 2018
Over 7000 researchers from India, Republic of Korea, Japan, China and Brazil were interviewed for the survey conducted by Editage, a global scholarly communications firm.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 29, 2018
In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 29, 2018
One of the war’s greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long. At last, the real history is being restored.
Source: NYT
Nov 28, 2018
Former Barack Obama and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III call for bipartisanship in a partisan era.
Source: NYT
Nov 28, 2018
Many see the lack of civics in schools as a national crisis. A federal lawsuit says it also violates the law.
Source: Politico
Nov 28, 2018
Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.
Source: NYT
Nov 27, 2018
The argument was made up of equal parts history, much of it dark, and an assessment of the practical implications of a ruling that Congress had never clearly destroyed the sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over the area, covering about half the state.
Source: hyperallergic.com
Nov 27, 2018
Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.
Source: Texas Observer
Nov 26, 2018
The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers
Source: NYT
Nov 26, 2018
The book, “The Making of a Justice: My First 94 Years,” will be published in May, not long after Justice Stevens’s 99th birthday.
Source: NYT
Nov 26, 2018
For years, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, one of the most powerful people in Myanmar, presided over ruthless campaigns targeting minority groups along Myanmar’s borders.
Source: NYT
Nov 26, 2018
An estimated 600,000 paintings had been stolen during the war and 100,000 remain missing.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 26, 2018
Bank of England has received nearly 175,000 nominations in search for notable person.
Source: History channel
Nov 26, 2018
Our DNA has revealed many more encounters.
Source: The Times of Israel
Nov 25, 2018
An international interdisciplinary team of academics discovers evidence of a catastrophic volcanic eruption on Iceland that spurred a snow-ball effect causing a whole world of pain.
Source: Politico
Nov 23, 2018
‘They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan,’ says one GOP pollster.
Source: AP
Nov 22, 2018
A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists.
Source: NYT
Nov 22, 2018
T.N. Pandit, an Indian anthropologist who visited North Sentinel several times between 1967 and 1991, said their hostility is simple: they want to be left alone.
