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
Apr 20, 2021
"Years later, in an interview with the University of Minnesota Foundation, he begged off reflecting on his legacy. 'Well, you know, Minnesota doesn’t believe much in bragging. I did the best I could'."
Source: Washington Post
Apr 20, 2021
State archaeologists discovered remains of a cabin that evidence suggests belonged to Ben Ross, and where the woman who would be known as Harriet Tubman lived for a period of time as a child.
Source: New York Times
Apr 19, 2021
A Rwandan government commission has concluded that the government of France supported the leaders of genocide in Rwanda to sustain its own influence. This goes a step beyond a recent French government report that identified French involvement in virulent ethnic politics but not in genocide.
Source: New York Times
Apr 19, 2021
United Nations experts have stated that a recent British government report on racial issues recycles racist tropes and unjustifiably ignores evidence of racial bias and disparities.
Source: MSNBC
Apr 19, 2021
Ted Cruz imagines that the partisan affiliation of Jim Crow segregationists is a "gotcha" against the Democratic Party today, which only makes sense if you ignore everything that's happened since 1964.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 19, 2021
by Kimberly Wehle
"Presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all."
Source: New York Times
Apr 17, 2021
by Alexis McGill Johnson
"Margaret Sanger harmed generations with her beliefs. In our second century, Planned Parenthood has a chance to heal those harms," says the organization's current leader.
Source: New York Times
Apr 15, 2021
Council members said objections to the noose element of the logo, designed in the 1970s, had been made before.
Source: NIH Director's Blog
Apr 15, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci's model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been a prop in numerous informational sessions since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, the plastic germ will reside in the Smithsonian's collections.
Source: The New Republic
Apr 15, 2021
Writer Matt Ford argues that the proposed Judiciary Act will fail to address the political problems that the Democrats are reacting to. Is there a better approach?
Source: Wall Street Journal
Apr 15, 2021
The House Judiciary Committee approved HB 40, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, authorizing a commission to study the issue of reparations to African Americans.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 15, 2021
Poland's right-wing government has sought to promote a narrative of national victimhood by the forces of Nazism and Communism. Historians who study the participation or complicity of Poles in the Holocaust face a threat of legal action that historian Audrey Kichelewski says is chilling.
Source: Data & Society
Apr 14, 2021
In 1929, Congress adopted a formula for apportionment based on the Census. While made political disputes a matter of law, it also capped the size of the House, which has not kept up with population growth and contributed to the disproportionate influence of small states in the House and the Electoral College.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 14, 2021
Writer Moira Donegan argues that including funding for care workers in the infrastructure bill is eminently reasonable; feminist intellectuals for decades have argued that this work is essential to the broader economy, so funding it and supporting it makes sense economically and to recognize the labor of women.
Source: New York Times
Apr 13, 2021
“Names do matter,” Jason F. Esteves, Atlanta’s school board chairman, said at Monday’s meeting.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 13, 2021
Neil Matkin's regime connects several trends: the politicization of higher ed administration, the diminishment of faculty's role in shared governance, and the imposition of business logic in higher ed administration. But faculty and staff say that the personal element is what makes the situation truly intolerable.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 13, 2021
by George Packer
Writer George Packer argues that withdrawing from Afghanistan repeats a mistake of the Vietnam era: abandoning groups who took the grave risk of allying with the United States.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 13, 2021
by Alec MacGillis
The effort to organize Amazon's Alabama warehouse workers has failed. In this, it resembles the early stages of other organizing efforts that led to the brief golden era of American labor. Unexpected contingencies helped push management of American industry to accept unions by the 1940s despite their violent opposition decades before.
Source: Library of Congress
Apr 13, 2021
Kluge Prize winner Danielle Allen moderates an expert panel to discuss the changing interpretations of the nation’s founding documents and the principles they were founded upon. They will also explore the tension between celebrating what is good about the U.S. and its history, while addressing the exploitation and inequality that are also part of the American legacy.
Source: New York Times
Apr 12, 2021
by Paul Krugman
Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that the decline of labor was a political outcome; reviving unions requires changing the rules governing management during a union drive, but is a key to alleviating inequality.
