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
Dec 30, 2021
Marland Buckner, interim executive director of the Black History Museum, said in the release that his institution “takes very seriously the responsibility to manage these objects in ways that ensure their origins and purpose are never forgotten: that is the glorification of those who led the fight to enslave African Americans and destroy the Union.”
Source: Editorial Board
Dec 21, 2021
Christopher Jon Sprigman of NYU Law discusses the oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, and how the conservatives on the Court seem to be maximizing "free exercise" over "establishment."
Source: Washington Post
Dec 21, 2021
by William Hanage
"Hope is not an effective strategy for dealing with a pandemic. Two years in, we should all know that."
Source: New York Times
Dec 20, 2021
"He received more campaign donations from the oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator in the current election cycle."
Source: Al Jazeera
Dec 19, 2021
"Were the real killers working with the FBI? And is that why the FBI withheld the information? What does it say that the only witnesses who placed Aziz and Islam at the scene of the crime were FBI informants?"
Source: New York Times
Dec 19, 2021
"At 35, Mr. Boric will be the nation’s youngest leader and by far its most liberal since President Salvador Allende, who died by suicide during the 1973 military coup that ushered in a brutal 17-year dictatorship."
Source: New York Times
Dec 19, 2021
"A bloody history of American influence looms large, and a century of U.S. efforts to stabilize and develop the country have ultimately ended in failure."
Source: New York Times
Dec 17, 2021
Chile's right-wing dictatorship took hundreds – possibly thousands – of infants from their families and concealed the facts of their birth from them.
Source: Protean
Dec 17, 2021
by Ryan Zickgraf
Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism.
Source: New York Times
Dec 17, 2021
Si Spiegel's survival as a bomber pilot was a tough act to follow, but pioneering the artificial Christmas tree may have topped his martial exploits.
Source: WBUR
Dec 16, 2021
Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Min Jin Lee, award-winning author and former student of hooks, about the legacy hooks leaves behind.
Source: CNN
Dec 16, 2021
An interdisciplinary group of scholars including Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Angie Maxwell, and Andra Gillespie discuss the advances, setbacks and new battles in the struggle for justice in 2021.
Source: Elle
Dec 15, 2021
by Gila Berryman
"What kind of role model was I? I was a Black woman teaching working-class Black and brown students the importance of learning to write clearly so they could get a good job, yet I couldn’t support myself on my own salary."
Source: New York Magazine
Dec 15, 2021
"As for Florida teachers, why would any of them invite a lawsuit from the local MAGA commissar by suggesting their nation was anything other than the divinely blessed paradise of freedom and opportunity?"
Source: New York Times
Dec 15, 2021
The recent exoneration of Anthony Broadwater calls for revisiting the context of writer Alice Sebold's sexual assault, including the state of urban America, the climate of racism and the politics of crime in the early 1980s.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Dec 15, 2021
Prosecutors in Philadelphia are accused of withholding evidence that undermined the credibility of key witnesses in the case, a pattern that critics argue has been widespread.
Source: Smithsonian
Dec 14, 2021
Father Gilles Drouin argues that “the cathedral has always been open to art from the contemporary period."
Source: The New Republic
Dec 14, 2021
by Rebecca Nathanson
"The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor," as Rebecca Nathanson explains.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 14, 2021
"The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., cites the modern version of an 1871 law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which was enacted after the Civil War to safeguard government officials carrying out their duties and protect civil rights."
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 14, 2021
Sustaining the "big lie" that Trump was robbed of re-election requires small lies, including investigating and prosecuting individuals to sustain the myth of widespread cheating. This explains Texas's prosecution of Crystal Mason for casting a provisional ballot that was never even counted.
