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
Dec 13, 2021
by Kriston Capps
The one thing every New Yorker can agree on is that Penn Station is terrible. Why is this benighted hellhole being championed for historic preservation?
Source: PEN America
Dec 13, 2021
by Jeffrey Sachs
Under the South Carolina bill, racism, fascism, and homophobia can all be understood as cultural or political beliefs. Educators would be prohibited from describing those who hold such beliefs as bigoted or oppressive.
Source: New York Times
Dec 13, 2021
The sale of Brown's lucrative song catalog clears the way for some of the future proceeds to benefit scholarships for poor children in Georgia and South Carolina, a cause Brown had long championed.
Source: Haaretz
Dec 12, 2021
"It is time to acknowledge the truth, and first to publish the report by the first attorney general, Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira, on the massacres of the dark autumn of 1948... and to hold a penetrating public discussion of their implications today."
Source: NPR
Dec 12, 2021
"Fernandez became an important icon for Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and around the world – who found that his music transported them to the ranches and towns they'd reluctantly left behind in search of opportunity abroad."
Source: New York Times
Dec 10, 2021
"To talk with a dozen teachers and librarians is to hear annoyance and frustration and bewilderment, as much with the sheer ambiguity of the new law and the list of books as with the practical effect."
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Dec 9, 2021
The flooding and destruction of the refineries and storage facilities along 52 miles of the Houston Ship Channel is a matter of if, not when, says environmental lawywer Jim Blackburn.
Source: Brookings
Dec 8, 2021
"Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery."
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 8, 2021
"The subjectivity involved in defining inappropriate, obscene, or distressing—and the danger of politicizing such definitions—is at the center of Krause’s challenge, and it shows in the books on his ban list."
Source: The New Republic
Dec 8, 2021
"The passionate relationship between a legendary soccer player and an Italian city lies at the heart of The Hand of God, the new movie from Paolo Sorrentino."
Source: Declassified UK
Dec 8, 2021
Declassified documents show that one unknown facet of the British effort to undermine communist Cuba was to encourage the spread of homophobic rumors about Raúl Castro.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 8, 2021
Is today's conspiratorial and ethnonationalist conservatism a break from the Burkean roots of the movement and its highest ideals? David Brooks says it is. What happens next?
Source: Washington Monthly
Dec 8, 2021
by Matthew Cooper
A veteran political reporter acknowledges that the late Senator and presidential candidate could be a tough partisan, but was devoted to fighting within the rules of procedure.
Source: Noēma
Dec 7, 2021
by Nils Gilman
"The growing awareness of the problems with meritocracy in recent decades is a direct result of the deepening divide between winners and losers. The divide has poisoned our politics and set us apart."
Source: New York Times
Dec 7, 2021
“[James Van Der Zee] is a central figure, a significant artist, in telling the story of people of African descent,” said Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum. “The photographs are testaments to beauty and power, and he captured the Harlem community and the African American community in all its possibilities.”
Source: The Guardian
Dec 7, 2021
"Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that [Sandra] Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, 'proved to be the perfect fit'."
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Dec 6, 2021
"Faculty at UF Health expressed concerns over funding being in jeopardy if they did not adopt the state’s stance on pandemic regulations in opinion articles, the report says."
Source: New York Times
Dec 6, 2021
Historian Timothy Tyson wrote in a 2017 book that witness Carolyn Bryant Donham disavowed her testimony that Till had grabbed her and made suggestive remarks before he was lynched. The DOJ has said that materials given them by Tyson did not corroborate the claim of a recantation.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 6, 2021
Colleagues remembered Dole's deadpan wit, which didn't translate well enough to the national stage for the Kansas legislator to win the presidency.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 6, 2021
"Activists and scholars say there are other similar cases nationwide, but proving them — and getting the current property owners to cooperate — will be a different matter."
