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: The Daily Beast
Jul 23, 2016
Trump says he’ll put America First, which of course carries echoes of the old isolationist and anti-Semitic movement—which Trump has apparently never even heard of.
Source: Slate
Jul 22, 2016
Slate asked historians to list some of the "worst" years in history. 2016 hardly comes close.
Source: NYT
Jul 22, 2016
Since 1980, the polling average 109 days before the general election has been off by about 7.5 percentage points.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 22, 2016
Obama has delivered many memorable speeches. But which will schoolchildren read decades from now?
Source: USA Today
Jul 22, 2016
"There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 22, 2016
Trump’s speech was the most negative in tone of any convention acceptance speech since 1972.
Source: National Security Archive
Jul 22, 2016
The blasts in Bikini Atoll in July 1946 staged by a joint Army-Navy task force were the first atomic explosions since the bombings of Japan a year earlier.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 22, 2016
Portland’s also got a serious case of racism.
Source: Snopes
Jul 22, 2016
But some believed it was true.
Source: NYT
Jul 21, 2016
When a Viking ship, meticulously recreated in Norway, crossed the Atlantic last month, the feat captivated history buffs in the United States. But as the ship, called the Draken Harald Harfagre, glided into American waters this month, it collided with an unexpected foe: modern-day safety regulations.
Source: The Deseret News
Jul 21, 2016
Some Jewish historians' personal stories of Holocaust plights and survival had reportedly fell into obscurity due to a language barrier, but they are now seeing new light after one man embarked on a journey to preserve and highlight the texts.
Source: DiversityInc
Jul 20, 2016
Only 18 out of 2,472 delegates in Cleveland are Black, the lowest percentage in over a century.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 20, 2016
Lessons from 1968
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 20, 2016
The GOP congressman says Western civilization is better and Westerners shouldn't apologize for that.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 20, 2016
As an Eastern European who attended school after the fall of communism, she might not.
Source: Salon
Jul 20, 2016
by Paul Rosenberg
Liberals say it’s factually not true.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 19, 2016
by Richard Moe
Bears Ears represents the most important and intact array of unprotected cultural resources on federal land.
Source: The Washington Times
Jul 19, 2016
So says Craig Shirley.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 19, 2016
Melania Trump, accused of lifting passages from a speech by Michelle Obama, is not the first to face such allegations.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 19, 2016
The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.
