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: NYT
Apr 17, 2016
Half a million people or more, many of whom had no connection to Communism, are estimated to have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of others were held in detention centers for years.
Source: The Sunday Times
Apr 17, 2016
An ancient stone ornament illegally removed from Syria has been found on sale for tens of thousands of pounds in an upmarket antiques shop in Mayfair, central London.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 16, 2016
Ordinary Syrian people are going to extraordinary lengths, risking everything to protect their heritage, despite the horror that has engulfed their country.
Source: AP
Apr 16, 2016
The museum was trashed and some of its best-known artifacts and statues were smashed by the militants, who cut off the heads and hands of statues and demolished others before being driven out last month.
Source: NYT
Apr 16, 2016
In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.
Source: Business Insider
Apr 14, 2016
After its last AI chatbot turned into a genocide-advocating, misogynistic, holocaust-denying racist, the company's latest project — a bot that tells you what's in photos — refuses to even look at photos of Adolf Hitler.
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 13, 2016
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been dropping public hints that he's looking to keep Alexander Hamilton in the center portrait on the front of the $10 bill
Source: Yes! Magazine
Apr 13, 2016
Twenty-three leaders recently convened in Richmond, Virginia to plan a national commission on racial violence against black people.
Source: Art Crime Research
Apr 13, 2016
It rejects the proposal to rebuild the city utilizing 3D technologies.
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton is not the first.
Source: New Historian
Apr 12, 2016
A research study from Tel Aviv University has used handwriting analysis to shed new light on the mysteries surrounding just when Old Testament texts were written.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 10, 2016
The fate of Confederate monuments standing on public property has been a topic of debate — civil and uncivil.
Source: The Sun
Apr 10, 2016
Aysegul Gurbuz’s suspension is the latest Anti-Semitism storm to hit the Labour party since the co-chairman of its Oxford University club resigned claiming a ‘large proportion’ of its members had a “problem with Jews”.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 9, 2016
Carl Bernstein has a favorite shot — a powerful, wordless visual within a film rippling with verbiage. It is the moment when everything elevates as metaphor.
Source: My Dayton Daily News
Apr 9, 2016
For Kasich and his allies, the comparison is obvious: If Garfield could do it, why not Kasich?
Apr 9, 2016
Hitler himself paid no attention to the town of Braunau, but the fate of the privately owned home there has been debated since World War II ended.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 9, 2016
A lay archaeologist made a discovery that could shift our current national narrative, in which American Colonial history begins with the British.
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2016
The most well-known developer in New York today may be a man with national aspirations and a propensity to talk off the top of his extravagantly coifed head, but a century ago, the headlines were commanded by a real estate family with an aversion to publicity and the trappings of wealth.
Source: Courier-Journal
Apr 8, 2016
College is privilege, not a right, Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton says.
Source: The Root
Apr 8, 2016
He disclosed this in a tweet on Twitter.
