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: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 19, 2018
Eight private schools in Washington area -- including St. Albans and Sidwell Friends -- announce they will stop offering Advanced Placement courses.
Source: Huffington Post
Jun 19, 2018
“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course,” the attorney general said of the comparisons.
Source: Pew Research Center
Jun 18, 2018
The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements.
Source: NYT
Jun 18, 2018
Curators across Europe are increasingly trying “rapid response collecting” to obtain items used in major events just after they happen.
Source: NYT
Jun 18, 2018
The hat is one of about 120 two-cornered military dress hats that Napoleon was said to have worn during his rule between 1799 and 1815. Historians have identified only 19 remaining hats, most of them now in museums.
Jun 18, 2018
by Lawrence Wittner
Even as he holds out the hope of denuclearizing North Korea, he wants to increase the size and scope of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Source: NYT
Jun 16, 2018
A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.
Source: NYT
Jun 16, 2018
The quote, which reads “Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it,” is widely associated with Hitler and Goebbels’s use of propaganda to build the Nazi empire.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 15, 2018
The verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.
Source: NYT
Jun 15, 2018
The two sides agreed to the same thing after the 1953 armistice but have made only sporadic progress to accomplish it since then, and almost none in the last 13 years of mounting tensions over the North’s nuclear program.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 15, 2018
"You can’t just gloss over this history."
Source: The Guardian
Jun 15, 2018
Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party.
Source: The Way Improvement Leads Home (blog)
Jun 15, 2018
by John Fea
And it wasn’t Romans 13.
Source: The Texas Tribune
Jun 13, 2018
During a hearing on Tuesday, dozens of Mexican-American educators and activists implored the board to change the name of the course from “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent” to “Mexican-American Studies."
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 13, 2018
On Saturday, Monticello will open the room to the public, with a small exhibition devoted to the life of Hemings and the Hemings family.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 13, 2018
His diaries reveal a xenophobic, misogynistic side.
Source: AP
Jun 13, 2018
Though Trump is far from the first U.S. president to work with an unsavory counterpart to achieve a strategic goal, his decision to broadcast that he tacitly accepts Kim’s history of atrocities was a sharp break from the past, says the AP.
Source: The Center for Michigan
Jun 12, 2018
References to gay rights, Roe v. Wade, climate change and “core democratic values” have been stripped from Michigan’s new proposed social studies standards.
Source: Axios
Jun 12, 2018
The decline is evident in polls in Canada, Germany, Japan, UK, France and Italy. But in Russia US popularity is on the upswing.
Source: Politico
Jun 11, 2018
The College Board says it’s making the change because the current class covers too much and most colleges teach similar content as two separate courses.
