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: New Statesman
Jun 9, 2022
by John Ganz
There's something familiar about a secular nationalist movement that mobilizes property owners through a narrative of national decline and the promise of controlling or purging enemies of a unified people through force, recently described in a Times op-ed. If only there were a word for it....
Source: Washington Post
Jun 8, 2022
Kernaghan waged war against the dark side of free trade: the ruthless exploitation of workers in overseas factories.
Source: Al Jazeera
Jun 8, 2022
While calling Belgian colonial rule "unjustifiable and racist" King Philippe did not go so far as to issue an apology.
Source: Politico
Jun 8, 2022
by Diana Greene Foster
The author has systematically studied the consequences to women of having an abortion or having that freedom denied. She explains what to expect when states are free to outlaw abortion: more child poverty, more maternal death, and reduced opportunities for women, with the poor getting the worst of it.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 8, 2022
Suzanne Nossel of PEN America argues that legislation that dictates what can be taught is at "the top of the pyramid" in terms of the broad array of threats to free speech on campuses.
Source: Washington Post
Jun 7, 2022
Mitchell didn’t have a grasp of the specifics of her husband’s involvement in Watergate, Bernstein told me, “but what she was so right about from the beginning was the coverup.”
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 6, 2022
by John Temple
"Maybe one day some editors will have a picture of a dead child even more powerful than the one we published that will finally make a difference."
Source: Boston Review
Jun 6, 2022
by Harmony Goldberg and Erica Smiley
The organizers of the Staten Island Amazon union mobilized a broad sense of justice politics not limited to the workplace. It remains to be seen how they can win allies in labor and the government to continue to organize against a wealthy and hostile company.
Source: NPR
Jun 6, 2022
While the Watergate hearings of 1973 made chairman Sam Ervin a household name and publicized the crimes of Watergate and the Nixon campaign, it's unlikely the January 6 Committee can follow that act.
Source: CNN
Jun 4, 2022
Angry parents yelling at school board meetings present a picture of these authors' work that they find unrecognizable. Read what several targeted authors say about their books.
Source: National Interest
Jun 4, 2022
by Hugh DeSantis
The US and NATO must use the leverage of arms supplies to push Ukraine to negotiate with Russia or risk an interminable – and wider – conflict.
Source: Washingtonian
Jun 2, 2022
While Rachel Carson's suburban Washington home is a national landmark, there is as yet no place for the public to engage with her life and work.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 2, 2022
Experts debate whether polls showing students perceive stifled speech on controversial subjects are reflecting or driving reality, and if they are being used in a conservative attack on higher education.
Source: Smithsonian
Jun 1, 2022
An unpublished memoir of her late life, recently released to the Smithsonian, shows how Shirley Temple Black worked to thwart pervasive sexism in the diplomatic arena while advocating for a global environmental awareness.
Source: NBC News
Jun 1, 2022
"It finds that the damage to Black communities is extensive and that a variety of intentionally crafted policy, judicial decisions and racism by private actors has created a widespread exclusion of Black people that has not been sufficiently addressed at any level of government."
Source: The New Republic
Jun 1, 2022
A series of Supreme Court decisions in recent decades have reinforced police officers' discretion about how and if to act, and made in nearly impossible for the public to hold the police accountable for those choices, even when lives are lost.
Source: Substack
Jun 1, 2022
by Jason Garcia
The Governor proposed a sweeping set of higher education oversight reforms that would have consolidated power over public campuses, including the hiring of professors, with boards appointed by the governor.
Source: Boston Globe
Jun 1, 2022
"A leaked draft report by a Harvard committee says the university has the remains of at least 19 people who were likely enslaved and nearly 7,000 Native Americans, according to the Harvard Crimson."
Source: Washington Post
May 31, 2022
"About 1999, in the Columbine shooting, the NRA set its political course: We’re in the culture war business."
Source: The Atlantic
May 30, 2022
Mark Rozzo's "Everybody Thought We Were Crazy" tells the story of artistic encounters that ran through the couple's home.
