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: PSYBLOG
Mar 27, 2016
People born between 1988 and 1994 — so-called “millennials” — are the most narcissistic generation ever.
Source: CBS News
Mar 27, 2016
Some of the most important heritage sites seem ok.
Source: NYT
Mar 26, 2016
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in Washington in September, had some delicate decisions to make about slavery, Bill Cosby and President Obama.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 24, 2016
Edenfield will be sentenced on July 21 and faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The government has recommended probation.
Source: Reuters
Mar 24, 2016
Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
Source: Financial Times
Mar 24, 2016
Study #1: Why did the industrial revolution start in northwest Europe? Because, argue James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou, of a “uniquely high female age at first marriage — around 25 — from at the latest the fifteenth century.”
Source: Forward
Mar 24, 2016
Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 24, 2016
He’s actually German.
Source: NYT
Mar 24, 2016
The United States “has to examine its own policies as well, and its own past,” the president said at a memorial to victims of the war in 1970s and ’80s.
Source: Mondoweiss
Mar 23, 2016
A document has surfaced showing that the Israeli army in 1948 committed atrocities.
Source: Forward
Mar 23, 2016
A review of documents released in the 1980s but unexamined until now shows the extent to which Jews were spying on Jews.
Source: WTKR
Mar 23, 2016
On social media some students at the school, Isle of Wight, said they don’t understand what the fuss is about.
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 23, 2016
Prior U.S. Government Releases Have Detailed Human Rights Abuses and U.S. Policymaking in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 23, 2016
Across the country, and the South especially, colleges and universities are coming to terms with their historical ties to the Confederacy, and how those ties are honored through monuments, statues, and building names.
Source: The Root
Mar 22, 2016
John Ehrlichman, an integral part of the Nixon White House, reportedly referred to the anti-war left and blacks as enemies of the Nixon regime, and outlined a method by which it “could disrupt those communities.”
Source: The Roanoke Times
Mar 22, 2016
Among the protesters’ jeers were accusations that those supporting the removal of the monument are “communists” and members of the “Taliban.”
Source: Independent
Mar 21, 2016
The Democrat compared the ‘dark chapters of history' of World War II to her rival's racist rhetoric.
Source: Hyperallergic
Mar 21, 2016
A team of digital surveyors is working to create the world’s largest 3D database of archaeological sites in Syria, focusing on those at risk of destruction.
Source: Think Progress
Mar 21, 2016
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s controversial decision to declare April Confederate Heritage Month is giving teachers an opportunity to tell the truth about the Confederacy, but do students want to hear it?
Mar 21, 2016
With regime troops and their allies now within striking distance of the city itself, the Russians are softening up the minions of the phony caliphate from the air.
