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
3/16/2023
A bioethicist argued that the judge could have resolved a property dispute without reference to chattel slavery, and that invoking the statue was offensive.
Source: The New Yorker
3/9/2023
A lawsuit filed in Texas would threaten the availability of the drugs used to induce medical abortions, even in states where abortion remains legal. This is part of a long-developing plan.
Source: National Security Archive
3/10/2023
Hackers released a trove of documents from the Mexican Defense Ministry. Among other revelations: the government was engaged in surveillance of students at a teachers' college in the state of Guerrero, long before 43 students disappeared in 2014.
Source: The Century Foundation
3/7/2023
by Thanassis Cambanis
"The U.S. occupation of Iraq normalized torture, impunity, manipulation of intelligence, and a new level of official mendacity."
Source: Foreign Affairs
3/10/2023
by Max Boot
"I desperately wanted to believe that spreading freedom could solve the security dilemmas confronting the United States—that by doing good in the world, it could also serve its national security interests."
Source: Windsor Weekly
3/10/2023
The sponsoring board member suggested that his election victory means that "parents get a voice in how and what their children are exposed to.” A local history teacher disagreed.
Source: Forward
3/10/2023
by Steve Berman
American supporters of Israel have blamed the former president as a messenger about the consequences of the occupation; it's time to consider the message.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/7/2023
by Julie J. Park
The data supporting the charge that Harvard's affirmative action policies amount to discrimination against Asian American students isn't as clear-cut as has been reported, says an education researcher who's investigated the policies. Blaming race-based affirmative action conceals the preferences given to legacies, athletes, and donors' children.
Source: New York Times
3/13/2023
America's teachers are a diverse group, and the sources of their frustration likewise. But it's clear that a flood of educators out of the profession is a risk for America's schools as the pandemic is being followed by political interference with curriculum and book selection.
Source: The Nation
The history of broad organizing in whole industries like automobiles offers both inspiration and caution to workers who see organizing in the service industry as the key to a fairer economy. Two labor experts discuss.
3/14/2023
The leaders of a student movement to resist Tennessee's restrictions on course content charges that their university's faculty senate has failed to give their petition a hearing.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
3/11/2023
The legislature would prohibit the operation of DEI offices on public campuses in Texas and maintain a list of university staff who violate the law, with consequences for employment.
3/9/2023
by Eric Grabowsky
A professor says that, aside from academic freedom implications, a bill proposed to reduce tenure protections is aimed at intimidating critics of the university system's management.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/8/2023
While none have announced their candidacy, Greg Abbott of Texas and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia are joining Ron DeSantis in making aggressive moves on public higher education that may signal a key issue in the GOP primaries.
Source: FIRE
3/7/2023
Conservative politicians want to use libel laws to intimidate critics. One Supreme Court case stands in their way.
Source: Financial Times
3/7/2023
The US war against Vietnam sparked a broad array of artistic responses, and more importantly became a litmus test for a future generation of leaders. Despite disagreements about the invasion and its serious consequences for the Middle East, the war seems to have left no trace on the West.
Source: The Guardian
3/4/2023
Professor Crenshaw warned that the College Board's decision to alter its African American studies course resembles the pattern of business collaborating with and profiting under white supremacy that prevailed in Jim Crow America.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/7/2023
State legislatures and boards of trustees have long wanted to break the tenure system. Today, more university presidents seem willing to take sides against their faculty.
Source: Washington Post
3/8/2023
Although right-leaning "parental rights" groups have been prominent advocates for state legislation affecting how schools handle race and gender issues, it's clear that those groups don't represent all parents in the state.
Source: The Atlantic
3/6/2023
by Glenn Fine
A veteran executive branch watchdog says the effort to find who leaked the Court's Dobbs decision draft was doomed to fail from the start and reflects the impunity that the Justices enjoy.
