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: WAMU
11/7/2020
by Nina Totenberg
"Election experts, both conservative and liberal, however, say that so far they have seen no evidence of fraud. Rather, as professor Muller puts it, the allegations have been 'nitpicky stuff'.”
Source: ABC News
11/8/2020
René de Reuver, speaking on behalf of the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, said the church’s role began long before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
Source: WAMU
11/9/2020
The National Native American Veterans Memorial will open with virtual programming, including a tour and video tribute, on Wednesday, November 11.
Source: Washington Post
11/9/2020
Thomas K. Norment, who graduated from VMI in 1968, made the remark in a special session at the Science Museum of Virginia before a vote to appropriate $1 million for an investigation into racism at the state-supported military college.
Source: Library of Congress
11/10/2020
Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on November 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.
Source: New York Times
11/8/2020
"For Mr. Topping, known universally to colleagues as Top, the story was always about more than the day’s news developments, intriguing as they might be. It was about their historical significance, too."
Source: CBS News
11/8/2020
"I have had the privilege of spending my entire life making films about the U.S., capital U, capital S. But I've also had the privilege of making films about 'us,' the two-letter, lowercase, plural pronoun, that has a kind of intimacy and warmth to it."
Source: The Guardian
11/8/2020
In a moment of reflection, Harris invoked her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who left her home in India for California in 1958, at the age of 19. “Maybe she didn’t quite imagine this moment,” Harris said. “But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible.”
Source: The Hill
11/8/2020
Biden's two dogs will restore the long tradition of presidential pets; Donald Trump was the first president in 100 years not to have a dog in the White House.
Source: PBS News Hour
11/5/2020
Election law scholar Rick Hasen of UC-Irvine Law School says that lawsuits filed by Team Trump thus far lack both evidence and scope necessary to be significant factors in the election outcome.
Source: YouTube
11/6/2020
What happened when Oscar the Grouch signed a bad real estate contract with Ronald Grump for a two-can trash condo in Grump Tower?
Source: New York Times
11/5/2020
The footage was captured in Lyon, in 1897, by the Lumière brothers, who were among the world’s first filmmakers.
Source: New York Review of Books
11/5/2020
by Linda Greenhouse
The veteran Supreme Court reporter argues that the nation needs the court to enable government to actually take action to solve big national problems.
Source: WKRG
11/4/2020
Newly elected Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed contrary to fact that his father helped liberate Paris from communism in World War II.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/4/2020
"Most important to many in higher education, though, would be Biden’s embrace of the value of scientific expertise, which Trump, throughout the pandemic, has questioned and even belittled."
Source: Vox
11/4/2020
The ballot initiative’s success is evidence of how quickly attitudes toward Confederate iconography have changed throughout the state.
Source: Texas Monthly
11/4/2020
"There’s a lot of people out there who lived the history I lived way back then. That history is not gone, and it will never die."
Source: The Atlantic
11/4/2020
While political opinion polls aren't binding, they provide critical information about public affairs between elections. If they aren't reliable, America is at greater risk of truly post-factual politics.
Source: The Atlantic
11/4/2020
Donald Trump's open questioning of the legitimacy of the yet-undecided election has provoked a global crisis of confidence in American leadership.
Source: The New Yorker
11/4/2020
by Masha Gessen
It is believed that “Stalin’s Epigram” led to Mandelstam’s arrest, in 1934. The poet died in the Gulag in 1938. Every line is recognizable six decades later.
