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: New Yorker
Jan 24, 2018
It's a question people are only now getting around to asking.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 24, 2018
Navy Rear Adm. Ronny L. Jackson, the lead White House doctor, said on Jan. 16 that President Trump’s “overall health is excellent." So effusive was the report that when “Saturday Night Live” lampooned it, the dialogue required only moderate modifications to get laughs.
Source: NYT
Jan 24, 2018
“The Death of Stalin,” a blackly comic movie about the Soviet leader and his cowed entourage, has been denounced as a sacrilegious portrayal of those responsible for victory over Fascism. And now it has been pulled from theaters.
Source: National Security Archive
Jan 24, 2018
A Freedom of Information request is now resulting in the release of the memos produced by the former Secretary of Defense.
Source: NYT
Jan 24, 2018
In the first of what will become a regular series of videos exploring big questions and ideas about the world, the New York Times explains what we know about democracy’s troubles, what’s causing them and where it leads.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 23, 2018
Here’s how the mystery was solved.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 22, 2018
Fairfax described his protest as a “personal decision” based, in part, on his family history.
Source: Fox News
Jan 22, 2018
A half-century after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the very states that clung to racial segregation are now coming together to expand people’s knowledge on the Civil Rights Movement.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 22, 2018
by Joseph J. Fins
Both Democrats and Republicans agreed that should Nixon be forced out while the veep slot was open (Spiro Agnew had resigned) a Republican should succeed him even though Democrat House Speaker Carl Albert was next in line.
Source: The Times of Israel
Jan 20, 2018
UK's Channel 4 to air documentary featuring long-lost tapes describing how a Jewish group sought to exact revenge for the murder of 6 million.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jan 20, 2018
President Trump isn’t be the first politically powerful man to be ribbed by the public for his weight.
Source: The Hill
Jan 19, 2018
One year ago Saturday, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, kicking off an unpredictable year.
Source: PBS
Jan 19, 2018
Going all the way back to the nation’s founding, there are few cases like Romney’s, where a major party presidential nominee with no prior experience in Congress later ran for a seat in the House or Senate.
Source: CNN
Jan 19, 2018
The answer is that the government kept functioning even when money hadn't been appropriated.
Source: NPR
Jan 19, 2018
If President Trump's first year in office seemed chaotic from a staffing perspective, there's a reason.
Source: Hyperallergic
Jan 18, 2018
There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.
Source: NPR
Jan 18, 2018
What lessons were learned from previous government shutdown showdowns?
Source: The Conversation
Jan 17, 2018
Looking back, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair heralded a sea change in political discourse by normalizing public discussion of sex acts.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 17, 2018
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danes were not pleased.
Source: MSN
Jan 17, 2018
These were the least healthy presidents in American history based on their health around the time of their presidency.
