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: NBC News
Sep 28, 2016
Rwanda's prosecutor-general said the suspect is considered one of the key ideologues of the genocide, in which over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 28, 2016
How Hillary Clinton responded to husband’s accusers.
Source: Balkan Transitional Justice
Sep 28, 2016
A British historian says Croatians are disregarding the facts and claiming that Ustasa did not commit massive crimes against Serbs, Jews and Roma.
Source: Nature
Sep 28, 2016
Researchers estimate that the incidence of human lethal violence at the time of the origin of our species was about six times higher than for the average mammal, but about as violent as expected, given our great-ape ancestry.
Source: WaPo
Sep 28, 2016
Trump's name is never mentioned, but he's a ghostly presence.
Source: PBS
Sep 27, 2016
FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate what has shaped Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — where they came from, how they lead and why they want one of the most difficult jobs imaginable.
Source: New Vision
Sep 27, 2016
The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of "racial terrorism."
Source: BBC
Sep 27, 2016
The International Criminal Court has sentenced an Islamist militant who destroyed ancient shrines in Timbuktu to nine years in jail.
Source: The New Civil Rights Movement
Sep 25, 2016
Recently, Donald Trump’s speeches have begun to include the phrase, “one people, under one God, saluting one flag.”
Source: PBS
Sep 25, 2016
Track how candidates debate specific issues.
Source: Toronto Star
Sep 24, 2016
Xenophobia appears to be rising in Poland. A historian argues a history of unaddressed anti-Semitism is partly to blame.
Source: The Daily Beast
Sep 24, 2016
Colleges, cities, small towns, and even states are changing the name of the controversial holiday, and if the trend continues it may be gone completely.
Source: NYT
Sep 24, 2016
It could well draw 100 million viewers.
Source: WaPo
Sep 24, 2016
‘This place is more than a building. It is a dream come true.’
Source: The Chicago Tribune
Sep 23, 2016
by Chicago Tribune Editorial
"Fighting unwarranted government secrecy is a big part of what news organizations like the Tribune do, in wartime and peacetime. That's one reason we hope government lawyers admit defeat and end this lingering battle of Midway."
Source: The Guardian
Sep 23, 2016
War veterans are horrified that Blenheim Palace has been draped in swastika flags for Michael Bay’s latest film
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 23, 2016
A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.
Sep 22, 2016
Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly because of the Balfour Declaration in which Britain said it favored the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine but that this should not undermine the rights of others living there.
Source: NYT
Sep 21, 2016
Experts using a computer imaging program have virtually unwrapped a charred ancient scroll and recovered a fragment of the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible.
Source: NYT
Sep 21, 2016
Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.
