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: Washington Post
Apr 19, 2022
Concern about whether the Republicans can adopt a post-Trump conservatism reflects a long history of elite conservatism embracing and mobilizing demagogic populism.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Apr 19, 2022
by Michael Paul Williams
“They wanted to yank the narrative of Montpelier away from slavery, despite all of their protestations to the contrary,” said board member James French, chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Apr 19, 2022
Bored teens plus a coincidental after-school meeting time plus a statue of Louis Pasteur plus a gig as a Grateful Dead roadie turned out to equal a viral piece of pot culture that is known worldwide today.
Source: Politico
Apr 19, 2022
Are the Democrats trying to bridge a cultural chasm between themselves and the mass of voters they hope to persuade? Orwell's writing suggests so.
Source: Mother Jones
Apr 18, 2022
The EPA will investigate whethe the state of Louisiana granted emissions permits to chemical producers in ways that exposed Black communities to significantly higher cancer risk.
Source: The Nation
Apr 18, 2022
Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 18, 2022
Despite the volume of threats to boycott, Disney has seen little damage from previous controversies like the Southern Baptist Convention's 1997 boycott over Ellen DeGeneris, theme park "Gay Days" and health benefits for same-sex partners.
Source: The American Prospect
Apr 18, 2022
The Supreme Court has ruled that police officers have no definitive legal duty to take protective action on behalf of anyone. Would this fact influence debates about funding them if it were more widely known?
Source: Texas Tribune
Apr 18, 2022
Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 18, 2022
If Dylan himself has always been ambivalent about his Iron Range roots, there is still much to learn about the artist and the nation from a visit.
Source: The Baffler
Apr 18, 2022
by Evan Malmgren
"Inland America is pocked with the unmarked graves of communitarian utopias—primitive socialist and communist experiments—that tried to rebuild the world on what was assumed to be virgin soil."
Source: Washington Post
Apr 17, 2022
"Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries’ governing bodies, rewrite or delete censorship protections, and remove books outside of official challenge procedures."
Source: Iowa Starting Line
Apr 17, 2022
Restrictions on "divisive concepts" are among the legislative developments that make Iowa high school students fear their educations are being treated as a political football.
Source: Slate
Apr 16, 2022
by Lucas Mann
The campus free speech debate is framed by a fishbowl of the most selective campuses serving a tiny fraction of the student population.
Source: The American Prospect
Apr 14, 2022
The new cases would address the ability of employers to force employees to attend anti-union meetings, prevent employers who committed unfair labor practices to use delay tactics to avoid recognizing a union, and close a loophole that would allow employers to refuse to recognize unions.
Source: WLBT
Apr 14, 2022
Ray Mabus did not sign a Confederate Heritage Month declaration, a tradition which began with former Governor Kirk Fordice, whom Mabus also called "an overt white supremacist."
Source: NBCUniversal
Apr 14, 2022
"Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 14, 2022
by Adam Serwer
"Amazon’s defeat is also notable for another reason: the victory of a diverse group of workers against a mighty corporation that has presented itself as racially egalitarian."
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 14, 2022
Can studying past crime panics help cities convince riders to use mass transit systems when fear of crime is on the rise?
Source: Vice
Apr 13, 2022
Online calls for violence against teachers and school staff suggest that the right's portrayal of LGBTQ adults as inherent threats to children will soon generate a body count.
