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
11/16/2020
by Emily Badger
Trump's focus on Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee reflect the attempt to mobilize longstanding suspicion by many white Americans of cities and Black voters, not any significant changes in the vote in those cities since the last election.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
11/17/2020
by Richard Florida, Marie Patino and Rachel Dottle
The noted urban theorist points out that assumptions about suburban voters haven't kept up with the changing demographic realities of America's suburbs, which house a majority of the population and differ from each other as much as they do from central cities.
Source: The Guardian
11/19/2020
"Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?"
Source: Places Journal
11/15/2020
by Luc Sante
A four-part series of essays and photography examines the creation, maintenance and consequences of the reservoirs constructed to supply water to New York City, including the complex divisions and connections among urban and rural communities.
Source: New York Times
11/16/2020
For reasons likely including institiutionalized sexism, costumes have been a neglected part of the preservation of cinematic history. The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures hopes to work with the late Debbie Reynolds's son to change that.
Source: The New Republic
11/17/2020
"The problem isn’t simply which horses a newly contrite Charles Koch chooses to back, but the extent to which his extreme wealth and his commitment to a system that enshrines the power of the rich has shaped the entire racetrack."
Source: Washington Post
11/16/2020
Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy.
Source: Washington Post
11/16/2020
by Jennifer Rubin
The Washington Post columnist argues that the delayed transition to the George W. Bush presidency in 2000 and 2001 limited the nation's preparedness for a terrorist attack.
Source: Politico
11/12/2020
According to her top tags on RateMyProfessors.com, Dr. Jill Biden gives her students “good feedback” and is “respected” and “inspirational,” but she’s also a “tough grader” who gives “lots of homework.”
Source: New York Times
11/16/2020
Since the dawn of the 21st century, it has become commonplace for party leaders to talk of a rising demographic tide that is destined to lift the Democrats to dominance. The party should look at the defeat of California's affirmative action referendum as a caution that things won't be so simple.
Source: New York Times
11/15/2020
by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Ken Salazar
A former Florida Congresswoman and the former Interior Secretary present bipartisan advocacy for an American Latino Museum.
Source: New York Times
11/13/2020
Since March, four museums in the Netherlands and Denmark have been broken into, and memorabilia, including Nazi uniforms, has been stolen.
Source: New York Times
11/15/2020
A recent excavation has produced the largest discovery of artifacts of the year at the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.
Source: The Atlantic
11/11/2020
In its sharp and splashy fourth season, the show finally criticizes Elizabeth for her ignorance, characterizing her as a ruler whose stubborn devotion to tradition makes her and her family out-of-touch fools caught off guard by change.
Source: New York Times
11/12/2020
"Ms. Hambling’s sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard."
Source: New York Times
11/13/2020
New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
Source: New York Times
11/13/2020
Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by members of a Black militant group in 1985, starting a fire that destroyed 60 homes and killed 11 people.
Source: The Atlantic
11/16/2020
"If we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”
Source: New York Times
11/14/2020
Georgia's runoff election laws were instituted in response to a 1960s Supreme Court decision to eliminate the "county unit" system that had overrepresented white rural voters at the expense of urban and Black Georgians.
Source: Election Law Blog
11/16/2020
by Rick Hasen
We are not talking three Hail Marys anymore. We are talking done.
