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
Jan 7, 2022
Is examining Kurt Vonnegut's writing through the lens of suspected posttraumatic stress disorder a worthwhile line of inquiry?
Source: New York Times
Jan 7, 2022
by Stephen Vladeck
As the Supreme Court adopts a posture of governing by injunction before lower court appeals run their course, should revive FDR's proposal that cases seeking to throw out state or federal rules be heard by special panels, not single judges chosen through jurisdiction-shopping.
Source: Chalkbeat
Jan 6, 2022
By flagging the school's application for reference to historian Ibram X. Kendi, the state's actions suggest that Texas is going beyond the text of recent legislation to suppress controversial ideas.
Source: IndyStar
Jan 6, 2022
"During a committee hearing Wednesday about Senate Bill 167, a wide-ranging bill inspired by the national discourse over critical race theory, history teacher Matt Bockenfeld raised concerns about what the bill would require of teachers."
Source: Vox
Jan 6, 2022
"So there was a moment after January 6, where it seemed like the right was ready to disown Trump. They were ready to disown everybody who was involved in January 6. And for all kinds of reasons that was a very brief window that didn’t last."
Source: The Nation
Jan 5, 2022
by Michael Massing
Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors?
Source: NPR
Jan 5, 2022
"Throughout his service in Australia, Brooks enjoyed a level of freedom he'd never experienced before, either in the military or at home. In interviews with the National World War II Museum, he marveled over that country's acceptance of Black soldiers, which were a marked contrast to the racist Jim Crow laws of the south at the time."
Source: New York Times
Jan 5, 2022
by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
"Because extremist ideas are no longer limited to an isolated, lone-wolf fringe, the United States needs a public health approach to preventing violent extremism."
Source: The Guardian
Jan 5, 2022
"In a 10-day trial at Bristol crown court, the four defendants did not contest their actions on 7 June 2020 but sought to argue they were justified, because the statue was so offensive."
Source: Firstcoast News
Jan 4, 2022
Does the story of the discrimination Aaron experienced as a teenaged minor-leaguer in Florida run afoul of the state's "Individual Freedom Act"?
Source: The New Republic
Jan 4, 2022
"Indeed, the junior staffers I’ve spoken to at Penguin Random House laughed off the insinuation that any of them had the power to kill a book."
Source: New York Times
Jan 4, 2022
“I like to be underestimated,” she once told law students at the University of Miami. “I like to have people think, ‘She’s just a hick lawyer.’” She added: “Go ahead, I dare you. Dismiss me.”
Source: NPR
Jan 4, 2022
"The movie's dystopian future bears some distant similarities to reality, with climate change already exacerbating hunger and poverty and one giant corporation that could one day control pretty much everything."
Source: Washington Post
Jan 4, 2022
“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. They won’t let the majority senators vote."
Source: Washington Post
Jan 4, 2022
“It is only right that where offences have been abolished, convictions for consensual activity between same-sex partners should be disregarded too,” British Home Secretary Priti Patel said in a statement.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 3, 2022
While the Constitution requires the House to choose it's speaker, it gives no guidance how. Usually custom and party discipline are sufficient to accomplish the task, but not always.
Source: New York Times
Jan 3, 2022
Leakey's discoveries were foundational both to the study of human origins and the model of scientific investigation.
Source: New York Times
Jan 3, 2022
Glenn Kurtz's discovery of a short reel of film made by his grandfather in 1938 has led to a documentary film exploring the depth of understanding of Jewish life in Poland that can be gleaned from the brief footage.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Jan 1, 2022
"Until the Witchcraft Act was repealed in 1735, some 3,837 people were accused of the crime—the overwhelming majority of them women—with some two-thirds executed, more per head of population than anywhere else in Europe."
Source: DCist
Dec 30, 2021
“We want to be a place where the stories of our community are uplifted and celebrated and given the spotlight — particularly because so many of those residents are African Americans who have seen so much change happen without their input,” says Reginald Douglas, Mosaic’s new artistic director.
