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 Atlantic
Apr 13, 2022
"Jews will begin celebrating this holiday, which commemorates the exodus of the enslaved Israelites from ancient Egypt, on Friday night. In the Hebrew Bible, this festival is called “Pesach.” In English, it is known as “Passover.” But what if that’s a mistake?"
Source: Los Angeles Times
Apr 12, 2022
"In its 1980s heyday, SST released at least a dozen canonical rock albums that were notable for their rejection of convention."
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 12, 2022
"They are royal but not royal, monarchs without thrones, caught between the past and the future. A surprising number of them have gone into politics. What do their countries want from them?"
Source: Washington Post
Apr 10, 2022
At least four teachers have recently been turned in by parents or students for opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, part of a campaign of identifying and targeting alleged traitors for retaliation.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 8, 2022
Legislators have challenged the board's handling of a presidential search and the campus budget, among other concerns.
Source: Scientific American
Apr 8, 2022
Inherent features of nuclear weapons command and control systems make mistakes inevitable and difficult to reverse; the long history of close calls with accidental nuclear war show the need for disarmament.
Source: Smithsonian
Apr 8, 2022
"Racism operates in really any environment, and shows up in the hospital. Health care is not immune from the injustices that pervade society more broadly, including racism."
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 7, 2022
"Obbie is of the opinion that if something needs to get done, especially something as important as ensuring that the legacy of your community and family doesn’t get erased, you’d better first employ yourself to do something about it."
Source: London Review of Books
Apr 7, 2022
Journalist Chris Mullin discusses the saga of wrongful conviction, eventual exoneration, and delayed justice for the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, and argues he is being scapegoated for the whole mess because he won't identify a source who was involved.
Source: Reuters
Apr 7, 2022
PEN found that 86 school districts had removed 1,145 titles from their shelves over the last nine months, some permanently and others while an investigation was under way.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 7, 2022
"The failure of Russian democracy, and its turn to revanchism, was not catalyzed in Brussels at NATO headquarters. It was decided in Moscow by Putin."
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Apr 7, 2022
Did some statements made by Republicans echo Senator James Eastland's questioning whether Thurgood Marshall was "prejudiced against the white people of the South"?
Source: Above the Law
Apr 7, 2022
The head of the Tampa Log Cabin Republicans followed in the footsteps of gay Nazi Ernst Röhm by attacking critics of Florida's "don't say gay" bill and echoing the governor's insinuation that LGBTQ teachers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse.
Source: New York Historical Society
Apr 7, 2022
The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.
Source: Briscoe Center for American History
Apr 7, 2022
"I’m impressed by the depth and breadth of the Briscoe Center’s holdings, and also by its innovative mission as a center that actively conducts its own research into its collections, as well as facilitating the research of others."
Source: Washington Post
Apr 6, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
"Jackson not only supported the Nuremberg defendants’ right to counsel, he was a key part of the governing body that enshrined it into international law."
Source: The New Republic
Apr 6, 2022
A new book argues that the use of the word "accident" normalizes injury and death caused by failures of regulation and unequal distribution of vulnerability in society.
Source: North Carolina Policywatch
Apr 6, 2022
When faculty leaked documents showing a large donor's involvement in the Nikole Hannah-Jones debacle, the University of North Carolina took aggressive action to identify the leakers.
Source: Jacobin
Apr 5, 2022
Libraries are just one example of vital community institutions decimated by austerity politics and culture war battles; Emily Drabinksy says enough is enough.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 5, 2022
by Donald Moynihan
"QAnon, a sprawling set of baseless conspiracy claims, is built on nods and winks, which has allowed it to move from the fringes to the center of American politics without toppling the mainstream conservative politicians who are courting its adherents."
