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 Magazine
11/2/2020
"This is not the message you broadcast if you are trying to expand your minority coalition. No sane political strategist would advise a candidate to close by emphasizing his opposition to democracy, support for political violence targeting his rivals, and contempt for popular public-health officials."
Source: NPR
10/29/2020
Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow, he fought his entire life for what he believed was a sacred, natural right that should be available to all people - voting.
Source: Slate
11/2/2020
Election Law expert Rick Hasen joins "What's Next" to discuss the state of litigation over voting procedures as election day approaches.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
11/1/2020
The Philadelphia Police lied about rescuing a scared toddler during civil unrest when they had in fact beaten and detained his mother for hours without charges. Police in North Carolina tear gassed marchers to the polls. Will Bunch contends we should all be worried about a society where this can happen.
Source: New York Times
11/2/2020
Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.
Source: National Journal
10/29/2020
by Charlie Cook
A veteran political analyst says the likelihood of an election result close enough to be contested by Donald Trump is diminishing, and compares likely results in House and Senate races to historical patterns.
Source: New York Times
10/29/2020
Have decades of efforts to stop Democratic constituencies from casting ballots become flagrant enough to inspire revenge by voting?
Source: New York Times
10/26/2020
The murder of a French social studies teacher who showed his multiethnic class images offensive to Islam illustrates the dilemma of the French policy of secularism, which is beset on one side by complaints that immigrants do not assimilate and on the other by rising xenophobia and racism.
Source: The New Republic
10/26/2020
A new documentary, “537 Votes,” takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then.
Source: ABC News
10/27/2020
For months, President Trump has been casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and mail-in ballots, even though legal and historical experts say there's no cause for concern.
Source: New York Times
10/27/2020
Mr. Jarvis, who died in 1986, framed his campaign as a way to make the tax system more equal, but Proposition 13’s legacy has been the opposite.
Source: New York Review of Books
10/27/2020
by Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn argues Trump has given Americans license to do what they've long wanted to do: abandon the moral obligation of compassion and even the work of paying lip service to it.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/27/2020
They were all college freshmen when Donald Trump was elected president, and they all supported the businessman in 2016. After four years or so of college, have their views changed?
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/28/2020
Assessing the current company's financial ties to slavery requires understanding how the entity functioned as a pass-through for buyers and sellers of merchant insurance, rather than as an underwriter or funder of insurance policies.
Source: The New Yorker
10/29/2020
Music writer Amanda Petrusich remembers the iconoclastic songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who died this week at 78.
Source: So Let's Talk About...
10/27/2020
"President John F. Kennedy told protestors in Dorchester County to stand down. Gloria Richardson told JFK he could go to hell."
Source: The New Yorker
10/26/2020
“The Good Lord Bird” roots for Brown, but it has no patience for hagiography.
Source: New York Times
10/28/2020
The 2020 election may be fought in court as much as at the ballot box. A summary of legal actions affecting voting procedures and counting.
Source: Washington Post
10/28/2020
by Eric Wemple
Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.
Source: New York Magazine
10/27/2020
"Now we have one Supreme Court justice identifying with Trump’s alleged horror of post-Election Night uncertainty, and two Supreme Court justices pointing the way to a state legislative hijacking of the results."
