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: Bloomberg CityLab
Mar 14, 2022
by Shlomo Angel
"When a war becomes an urban war — when invaders move from open countryside to crowded streets — the advantages of size, air cover, or more sophisticated weaponry do not hold."
Source: WRDE
Mar 13, 2022
Governor Larry Hogan observed the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famed freedom fighter and encouraged visitors to state and federal sites in the state that preserve the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 13, 2022
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
From football to real estate to politics, British institutions have been willing to welcome Russian cash for decades without regard for its potential moral taint.
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 11, 2022
Chronic underfunding, combined with successive administrations' disdain for transparency, means that Freedom of Information Act requests are likely to languish for years before being fulfilled. It's long overdue to fund the National Archives for the public good.
Source: National Interest
Mar 11, 2022
"Russian forces, and certainly Russian president Vladimir Putin, may not have anticipated the resolve among Kyiv’s residents. It isn't just the Ukrainian Army that the invaders are facing."
Source: Washington Post
Mar 11, 2022
“Division superintendents disagree with your assumption that discriminatory and divisive concepts have become widespread in Virginia school divisions,” states the letter from Howard Kiser, executive director of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents.
Source: The New Yorker
Mar 11, 2022
The Director of Russia Studies at the Center for Naval Analyses dives into the technological, doctrinaire, and strategic elements of the Russian invasion, and suggests that the military may be more able to wreak destruction than to secure a meaningful victory.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 10, 2022
Financially precarious academic programs are potentially at the mercy of politically motivated donors whose philanthropy is subsidized by the tax code and affects public institutions without public input.
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 10, 2022
by Leonard Rubenstein
For a century and a half, international law has prohibited attacks on hospitals, and for as long, such attacks have continued, because of the lack of accountability, argues a scholar of healthcare during war.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 9, 2022
Although a close alliance would allow both China and Russia to overcome American influence in the world, this alone has never been sufficient to align the two nations.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 9, 2022
by Casey Michel
American law supports many of the instruments of international financial crime, and American banks and law firms staff them, because they are profitable and useful to oligarchs from around the world. Sanctions on Russian oligarchs will fail unless there is a crackdown on oligarchs in general.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 9, 2022
The publication of war photos has long involved a balance between public information, respect for the dignity of the dead, and the politic of information in wartime.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 9, 2022
"National higher-education experts and faculty members in Florida say the legislation is part of an attack on bedrock principles that preserve the academic autonomy of faculty members and institutions."
Source: Grid
Mar 8, 2022
Although reports of Russian advances failing are premature, the advance of armor and artillery toward Kyiv has been slower than expected. Military experts discuss whether supply lines, tactics, morale or technology explain it.
Source: AL.com
Mar 8, 2022
The new bill replaces three others, but only partially addresses concerns raised by professional educators about academic freedom and curriculum.
Source: Puck
Mar 8, 2022
by Julia Ioffe
Liberal Russians reflect on Stalin's death 69 years later and observe parallels with Putin's approach to internal dissent.
Source: Hartmann Report
Mar 8, 2022
by Thom Hartmann
What does the negotiated removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine in 1994 teach us about the prospects for peace and disarmament today and tomorrow?
Source: Forward
Mar 8, 2022
The Wisconsin Republican instead met with representatives of the trucker protest convoy.
Source: Vice
Mar 7, 2022
Although the current Postmaster is a fine villain figure for environmentalists, the USPS's failure to move ahead with electric vehicles traces back to the agency's reorganization in the 1970s and restrictions placed on the postal service by Congress.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 7, 2022
Recent Senate hearings for Biden's court nominees, and the opinions of some Supreme Court justices on criminal cases, suggest that constitutional protections for the right to counsel are in jeopardy, says legal historian Sara Mayeux.
