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: NYT
Sep 6, 2017
by Ronen Bergman
It had other priorities for Mossad, the short-handed agency.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 6, 2017
Leaders at Washington National Cathedral, the closest thing in the country’s capital to an official church, have decided after two years of study and debate to remove two stained-glass windows honoring Confederate figures Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Source: US News and World Report
Sep 6, 2017
By putting forward a joint resolution, which is sent to the president for signature, rather than a non-binding resolution, the senators are maneuvering to require Trump to choose between an explicit, one-sided condemnation of the white supremacist groups and risking a new round of recriminations if he vetoes it.
Source: PBS
Sep 6, 2017
“So much of what I thought I knew just turned out not to be correct,” says Novick.
Source: PRRI
Sep 6, 2017
White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all adults living in the country.
Source: NBC News
Sep 6, 2017
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that just 28% of adults called America the “single best place to live in the world,” with another 17% calling it “among the very few best places.”
Source: WaPo
Sep 4, 2017
The bloody and confusing history of an American holiday.
Source: Columbus Citizens Foundation
Sep 4, 2017
"Columbus was an explorer, a renowned sailor, and later governor who certainly partook in actions over the course of his career that were deemed unjust."
Source: Wired
Sep 3, 2017
FEMA was the result of Jimmy Carter’s efforts to restore some primacy to civil defense planning, bringing it back into the spotlight after years of diminishing budgets.
Source: NYT
Sep 2, 2017
In a backyard in Berlin, a ramshackle house that was once a haven for the civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is preparing for its third life — back in the United States.
Source: Al-Monitor
Sep 1, 2017
The new force intends to enforce strict security measures to curb antiquities trafficking in areas with considerable archaeological sites.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 1, 2017
Remembering the mission that opened Earth’s eyes to the vastness and wonder of space.
Source: Vox
Aug 31, 2017
The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.
Source: Newsday
Aug 31, 2017
His name is J. Marion Sims. Should he be remembered as the father of modern gynecology or for his experiments on black slaves?
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 31, 2017
It is conceivable that he could become the least popular president in modern history.
Source: The Post and Courier
Aug 31, 2017
Mayor John Tecklenburg's latest strategy to amend some Confederate-related monuments and add some new ones recognizing African-American history has been met with a range of reactions so far from Charleston residents, historians and community leaders.
Source: KPCC
Aug 30, 2017
Los Angeles joins San Francisco and several other cities nationwide in honoring native Americans in lieu of Columbus.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 30, 2017
Melisande Short-Colomb’s family history is proof of how deeply the roots of slavery go in America’s most prominent institutions.
Source: National Security Archive
Aug 30, 2017
The Atomic Energy Commission initiated studies to consider the ecological impact of nuclear war in the early 1960s, a time when the writings of natural scientist Rachel Carson were starting to inspire the modern environmental movement.
Source: NYT
Aug 30, 2017
Foreign powers have tried to control Afghanistan
for three centuries. It has not gone well
for them. Now the U.S. is digging back in.
