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
Mar 21, 2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Texas senator identified the decisions of the Supreme Court on abortion, civil rights, and other issues in the 1960s and 1970s as the origin of political wrangling over court appointments.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Mar 21, 2022
"Why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?"
Source: 19th News
Mar 21, 2022
"Representation has tangible benefits — research has shown the benefits of increasing judicial race and gender diversity, including heightening trust within minority populations and addressing gender bias in courtrooms."
Source: Think
Mar 21, 2022
by Robyn Autry
The significance of appearance isn’t just about styling choices. It’s about identity, life experience and perspective.
Source: Foreign Policy
Mar 20, 2022
by Mark Hannah
Editorial choices made by influential news organizations can push policy in the direction of more aggressive intervention. A media scholar asks why those organizations have consistently chosen to boost the voices of advocates for war.
Source: National Education Association
Mar 20, 2022
Standardized testing originated when public schooling was expanding and eugenicists were arguing that many immigrant and nonwhite groups were not capable of educational achievement. Tests were developed to sustain this viewpoint.
Source: PBS News Hour
Mar 19, 2022
Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Mar 17, 2022
Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa discuss the histories and daily life of the Japanese American community in Midtown Los Angeles, an area that has largely been erased from Angelenos' maps of their city.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 17, 2022
Fox News talking head and former Trump diplomatic nominee Douglas Macgregor is a prominent font of familiar antisemitic conspiracy theories, writes Yair Rosenberg.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 17, 2022
Education controversies about evolution and religion have given way to disputes about teaching the past, which are much more difficult to adjudicate, and push teachers toward avoidance.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Mar 17, 2022
While many Western academics have focused on the danger faced by Ukrainian scholars, it is clear that the domestic politics of Russia are increasingly dangerous for academic freedom as well.
Source: Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
Mar 16, 2022
The move may finally deliver on the board's promise to grant parity in the governance of the James Madison estate to the descendants of persons enslaved at Montpelier.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 16, 2022
On the lessons learned from working at the government's network of bomb shelters.
Source: Washingtonian
Mar 15, 2022
While everyone has ideas (and some have been wacky) about how to standardize time, humanity's dependence on sunlight means no plan can please everyone.
Source: Salon
Mar 15, 2022
by Kathryn Joyce
Hillsdale College is building a national network of conservative education activists with the goals of establishing charter schools based around the school's politically conservative curriculum.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 15, 2022
by Uri Friedman
Nuclear deterrence depends on factors like the rationality of leaders, the integrity of command protocols, and accuracy of information that are far from guaranteed to work in a crisis.
Source: The Nation
Mar 15, 2022
by Jennifer Berkshire
The media has given great attention to activists attacking "Critical Race Theory" but recent events suggest that there is a real backlash to the effort to stoke cultural grievances.
Source: Fox 32
Mar 14, 2022
The Ukrainian community in Chicago includes many who fled either Nazi or Stalinist forces as children 80 years ago.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 14, 2022
History shows that Biden's pledge to avoid US involvement in the war between Russia and Ukraine will hold up – until it doesn't.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 14, 2022
"People really like being in liberal societies after they’ve gone through either horrible nationalist conflict (as in the two world wars of the 20th century) or they’ve had to live under authoritarian dictatorship (as people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union did under communism)."
