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: WaPo
May 14, 2017
The evening protest was short-lived. About 10 minutes in, an altercation between Spencer’s group and counterprotesters drew police to the scene, and the crowd quickly dispersed.
Source: The Washington Post
May 13, 2017
If it doesn’t seem that way, that’s got more to do with the insatiable appetites of social media and cable news than with reality.
Source: Political Wire
May 13, 2017
While other U.S. leaders have shied away from Nixon parallels given the politician’s fateful end, Mr Trump appears to have embraced the comparison, in some ways taking up Nixon’s mantle, the Nixon scholar Douglas Brinkley said.
Source: NBC News
May 12, 2017
"San Francisco was fertile ground for an emerging counterculture movement that blossomed into a season that changed the world, giving rise to art, technologies, revolutionary politics, the international hippie lifestyle, and fostering emerging rock musicians."
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
“When I was young, I’d think ‘Oh God, here comes another guy telling me how great my father was.’ Now, I’m trying to be more like my father was.”
Source: NYT
May 12, 2017
South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, on Friday ordered his government to abolish state-issued history textbooks for middle and high school students, his first move to erase the unpopular legacies of his impeached and ousted predecessor, Park Geun-hye.
Source: NYT
May 11, 2017
Crews, wearing masks to cover their faces, worked under a heavy police presence starting at 3 a.m. Thursday to dismantle the statue, which was erected in 1911, nearly 50 years after the end of the war, and commissioned by the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.
Source: Slate
May 11, 2017
The phrase has been in common use since the 1930s.
Source: The Atlantic
May 11, 2017
The term is often narrowly described, but under certain circumstances, one can be triggered.
Source: US News
May 10, 2017
by James Warren
"Nixon's 'Saturday Night Massacre' was clearly a sinister act and effort to kill an investigation. What is not clear is whether Trump has botched this or it is a sinister act."
Source: NYT
May 10, 2017
German military police searching through barracks turned up Nazi-era military memorabilia that revealed a much broader presence of far-right extremists in the German Army’s ranks, something commanders are now accused of having long ignored.
Source: National Security Archive
May 10, 2017
U.S. officials weighed but rejected many options including tactical nukes.
Source: NYT
May 9, 2017
It doesn’t happen often, but for the second time in the F.B.I.’s 109-year-history, its director has been fired.
Source: The Atlantic
May 9, 2017
A Nixon biographer on two big differences between 1973 and 2017.
Source: NYT
May 9, 2017
Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him, and the dismissal drew instant comparisons to the Saturday Night Massacre.
Source: AHA
May 9, 2017
by Andrew K. Koch
Race, family income levels, gender, and status as a first-generation college student are the best predictors of who will or will not succeed.
Source: Harvard Gazette
May 9, 2017
Centennial exhibit includes earliest known recording of future president’s voice.
Source: Huffington Post
May 8, 2017
In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.
Source: NY Daily News
May 8, 2017
“When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing,” Rice said.
Source: The Washington Post
May 8, 2017
More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.
