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: Mississippi Free Press
Jan 26, 2022
Mississippi's stringent abortion restrictions are the product of a decades-long, cross-denominational project of Christian Dominionism, the view that conservative Christians should control the institutions of society to advance what they consider "Biblical" policies.
Source: Talking Points Memo
Jan 26, 2022
It is perhaps fitting that Cawthorn, who faces a challenge to his eligibility for office based on his endorsement of the march which led to the attack on the Capitol, would invoke an amnesty for Confederates as a defense.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Jan 25, 2022
Stephen Balch, a founder of the conservative National Association of Scholars, is part of the panel advising Texas on its curriculum standards. He has amplified Trump's false claims of election fraud among other controversial positions.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 24, 2022
Local groups lodging complaints about curriculum and school library books are part of a national network of astroturf organizations that combine mass membership with the resources of major ideologically-driven donors.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 24, 2022
It's appropriate for Theodore Roosevelt's statue to be removed from its position as a figurehead for the Museum of Natural History, but just as appropriate for the statue to be housed in the new Roosevelt Presidential Library where TR's complicated legacy can be more fully addressed, say the Post's editorial board members.
Source: TIME
Jan 24, 2022
The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 24, 2022
A veteran higher education lawyer says that dire predictions that the Supreme Court will ban race-based affirmative action in admissions; narrowly-tailored diversity initiatives may survive despite the court's broad conservative majority.
Source: NPR
Jan 24, 2022
Former Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) says that the 1887 Electoral Count Act needs to be revised to take away an opening one party could use to contest election results.
Source: The Economist
Jan 24, 2022
The film portrays Chamberlain as less weak-willed and more overconfident in his ability to secure peace.
Source: Forward
Jan 24, 2022
The political activist has made a habit of comparing public policies he dislikes to the Holocaust, most recently in a speech at a Washington rally where he invoked Anne Frank.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 24, 2022
Judge Mark E. Walker compared the university's restriction of faculty testimony as expert witnesses in cases involving voting rights and mask mandates to the recent crackdowns by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government.
Source: Vanity Fair
Jan 24, 2022
The ousted leader speaks to reporter Gabriel Sherman about the scandal and meltdown that ended his leadership of an evangelical empire.
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 23, 2022
by Ted Gioia
The growth in sales in music is coming overwhelmingly from old songs. Can the music industry sustain new performers if money keeps flowing to old catalogues?
Source: Forward
Jan 22, 2022
Director Alon Schwartz examines the events in the town of Tantura, where an Israeli militia is alleged to have killed 200 Arab residents. Oral history interviews with surviving members of the militia are key, but controversial, pieces of evidence.
Source: Texas Monthly
Jan 22, 2022
Director Eva Longoria Bastón's documentary on the 1996 match between Mexican champion Julio César Chávez and LA-born Oscar De La Hoya examines how the fight revealed tensions between Mexican and Mexican-American communities expressed in citizenship, language and sports allegiance.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 21, 2022
Eddie Glaude, chair of African American Studies at Princeton, called the outrage over the analogy a "disingenuous" reflection of Republicans' concern for being called racist exceeding their concern for racist practices.
Source: NPR
Jan 20, 2022
While Roosevelt's support of natural history has been noted, museum officials acknowledged that the statue "communicates a racial hierarchy" that constitutes a darker side of the former president's legacy.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 20, 2022
Lawyers for the Hendrix family argued that a suit for back royalties by the heirs of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell were invalid because of waivers signed by the guitarist's British bandmates soon after his 1970 death.
Source: The Nation
Jan 18, 2022
The university's negotiations with its graduate student workers' union show an institution organized around the values of a corporation.
Source: NPR
Jan 17, 2022
Princess Rita Boncompagni-Ludovisi, born Rita Carpenter, the former wife of Congressman John Jenrette, has worked for 19 years to make Rome's Villa Aurora accessible to scholars.
