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: New York Times
Feb 18, 2021
France's minister of higher education has pledged to investigate "Islamo-leftism" as a corrupting influence on society allegedly promoted by French university scholars.
Source: New York Times
Feb 18, 2021
by Ezra Klein
Is it time to revisit the basic premise of American welfare policies that encouraging or requiring paid labor is the best way to deal with poverty?
Source: Slate
Feb 18, 2021
"Newly declassified documents reveal that in November 1983, at the height of Cold War tensions, the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than historians—and even many officials at the time—have known until now."
Source: Washington Post
Feb 18, 2021
Ulysses S. Grant championed legislation to apply the power of the federal government against armed conspiracies to prevent the exercise of the vote. A Mississippi Congressman is now suing Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani under a provision of the law that allows victims to file civil lawsuits against conspirators.
Source: Politico
Feb 17, 2021
The President and Vice President have endorsed the establishment of a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery and post-emancipation racism against African Americans. It is yet to be seen whether the White House can please proponents and opponents if the commission moves toward concrete findings and recommendations.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Feb 17, 2021
A metastudy of bias in student evaluations of college teachers shows that conformity to dominant gender roles is a condition for receiving good evaluations; students both favor profs with masculine traits and punish women for not performing femininity.
Source: New York Times
Feb 17, 2021
“This is not about President Trump, because, quite frankly, the people here in the great city of Atlantic City knew how the presidency was going to play out on a national stage because we’re one of the cities that knew him best,” Mayor Marty Small said after the implosion.
Source: Democracy
Feb 17, 2021
by Michael Tomasky
"The admittedly and lamentably glorious career of the most prominent racist, sexist, poisonous radio host of our time probably never would have happened if it weren’t for a policy change: the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, under Ronald Reagan."
Source: Washington Post
Feb 17, 2021
Washington Post political columnist interviews historian Rick Perlstein on the late talk radio host's impact on political culture.
Source: The New Yorker
Feb 17, 2021
The British show "It's a Sin" reconstructs the emergence of AIDS in London through the story of a group of flatmates working to reconcile fear and affirmation.
Source: New York Times
Feb 17, 2021
The conservative talk radio host and de facto head of the Republican Party died on February 17 after a long career of airing right-wing grievances and attacking liberals, feminists, environmentalists, Democrats, and Black political leaders.
Source: Gilder Leherman Institute
Feb 17, 2021
The Gilder Lehrman Institute announces a new initiative funding a short-term research fellowship in colonial history.
Source: WGN
Feb 16, 2021
“Black women were migrating from the South and they had nowhere to go because economically, there were no jobs here for them,” Tate said. “So this was a place that spiritually, intellectually, socially, economically, they will magnify, to the point that they could go out and get a job and be somebody.”
Source: Columbia Post and Courier
Feb 16, 2021
“I think that’s what I find amazing. Even in terms of the curriculum in the state of South Carolina, that those kind of moments are not necessarily common knowledge, where you have an Orangeburg Massacre,” Crump said. “No pun intended, it’s almost like an educational blackout.”
Source: New York Times
Feb 16, 2021
“Judas and the Black Messiah” is the rare Hollywood film to explore a vision of Blackness that has nothing to do with white audiences.
Source: New York Times
Feb 16, 2021
The records would include records of civilian complaints, internal investigations of misconduct, and interdepartmental claims of harassment by superior officers.
Source: Washington Post
Feb 16, 2021
by Tom Coleman and John C. Danforth
A former Congressman and former Senator, both Republicans from Missouri, demand that Congress invoke the 14th Amendment's provisions on insurrection to bar Donald Trump from holding office in the future.
Source: New York Times
Feb 16, 2021
The Capitol riots highlight the dangerous potential for far right extremists to operate inside police departments, as well as official ignorance of the scope of the problem.
Source: Bill Moyers
Feb 16, 2021
by James D. Zirin
Attorney James Zirin, author of a book on Trump's history of litigation, critiques the second impeachment trial as a sham.
Source: Politico
Feb 15, 2021
by Ellen Feingold
The last hundred years have featured a stable roster of elite portraits on American banknotes. The longer history of paper currency, however, is more flexible and diverse, and should encourage creativity in using money to tell the nation's stories.
