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: Reuters
Mar 1, 2017
Islamic State has captured Palmyra, whose ancient ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, twice during Syria's six-year conflict.
Source: Japan Today
Mar 1, 2017
The statue was erected in a community where Korean Americans live.
Source: BBC
Mar 1, 2017
Bill Clinton got $15 million for his memoirs and George W. Bush $10 million.
Source: Mother Jones
Feb 28, 2017
It started with bizarre references to Frederick Douglass and fake news. It didn't get better from there.
Source: Slate
Feb 28, 2017
She praised historically black colleges – which were formed after white colleges blocked blacks from attending – as a positive example of school choice.
Source: National Security Archive
Feb 28, 2017
CIA’s Dulles Agreed: “You Don’t Revolt in the Face of Tanks, Artillery and Tear Gas; Revolutions Are Now at the Top.”
Source: NYT
Feb 27, 2017
Since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Gallup polling organization has asked Americans an open-ended question: “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?”
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Feb 27, 2017
“To keep on flashing these symbols and statues, they should be put in perspective, maybe a museum, or if they stay where they are, write up a true story of what they represent.”
Source: The Telegraph
Feb 27, 2017
The shrine is situated on top of a hill in eastern Mosul called Nebi Yunus - one of two mounds that form part of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh.
Source: The New Yorker
Feb 27, 2017
What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 26, 2017
"The fact that so many of our nation’s elite institutions have histories that are entangled with the history of slavery only enhances the opportunity and the obligation.”
Source: NYT
Feb 26, 2017
In 1947, up to 28,000 Taiwanese were massacred by Nationalist troops, and Taiwan and China are reckoning with the legacy.
Source: NYT
Feb 26, 2017
Some 6,000 Albanians were taken away by government agents during the Communist era and never heard from again.
Source: Slate
Feb 26, 2017
Seventy years ago American researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea -- then left without treating them.
Source: RT
Feb 26, 2017
The game warns of the creeping danger of fascism.
Source: The National Interest
Feb 26, 2017
Historian Andrew Bacevich says it should be kept in place, but Europeans should pay for it.
Source: Newsweek
Feb 26, 2017
by William Pomeranz
Putin has already chosen what he needs from the Soviet past: great power status, control of the commanding heights of the economy, victory in World War II and national stability.
Source: NYT
Feb 26, 2017
It is difficult to know if President Trump is aware of the historic resonance of the term, a label generally associated with despotic communist governments rather than democracies.
Source: NYT
Feb 25, 2017
There may be good reasons to worry about Mr. Bannon, but they are not the ones everyone is giving.
Source: NYT
Feb 24, 2017
But Im Chaem, the woman enjoying this apparently idyllic retirement, is accused of overseeing the killing of tens of thousands of people as a Khmer Rouge official in northwestern Cambodia in 1977 and 1978.
