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
10/26/2020
While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.
Source: New York Magazine
10/26/2020
“This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.
Source: NPR
10/26/2020
Governor Ralph Northam wrote that Virginians expect universities to "eschew outdated traditions that glamorize a history rooted in rebellion against the United States."
Source: KJZZ
10/26/2020
Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”
Source: TIME
10/27/2020
"The real opportunity in today’s moment is to see the peaceful protesters in the streets across the country that look like America: young, old, Black, white, male, female. That is something that that did not happen during the 1960s Civil Rights movement."
Source: New York Times
10/26/2020
By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion.
Source: NPR
10/27/2020
NPR's David Greene talks to election law expert Rick Hasen about Monday's Supreme Court decision that may offer a a window into how the court could rule over a contested Election Day outcome.
Source: Variety
10/26/2020
More bluntly, in keeping with the tone of MC5 songs like “Kick Out the Jams,” Kramer said, “Give me a break with your jive bulls—.”
Source: Academe Blog
10/26/2020
by Chris Arney
"The West Point faculty model and its policies have been evolving since Congress mandated the inclusion of more civilian faculty members in the 1990s. However, the clash of ideals and teaching methods between the academic and military cultures still exists, sometimes resulting in civilian-military discord and disagreement over values and process."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
10/22/2020
The position of ethnic studies in university curricula reflects changing intellectual currents but also longstanding battles over resources and power in higher education institutions.
Source: Washington Post
10/25/2020
Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development.
Source: Los Angeles Times
10/26/2020
“Regardless of what was done with the money, it was just wrong for us to take it in the first place. It’s antithetical to everything that the school stands for.”
Source: Mother Jones
10/26/2020
Joe Biden has proposed something akin to the CCC if elected: the Civilian Climate Corps. Workers would manage forests, restore ecosystems, and even remove invasive species.
Source: Harvard Gazette
10/21/2020
Diving with a Purpose seeks to locate and document marine evidence of Black history, including the wrecks of ships involved in the slave trade.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-vo
“I expect the B.O.E. to pull this off — there’s no other option. It’s the most important election of our lifetime,” said Scott Stringer, the city comptroller. “But we shouldn’t have to hold our breath because of their gross incompetence.”
Source: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
10/23/2020
A picture is emerging, but it will take years to sort out. One thing is clear, though: Leo and his allies have amassed a massive war chest of anonymous donations for their fight to remake the federal judiciary.
Source: Current Affairs
10/22/2020
by Nathan J. Robinson
While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.
Source: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
10/18/2020
The weekly comedy-investigative program includes an assessment of the World Health Organization's past work eradicating disease in the developing world and the Trump administration's attacks on the agency (includes some vulgar language and jokes).
Source: Defense One
10/22/2020
Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service.
Source: New York Magazine
10/22/2020
Liberals in the legal profession and legal academia have begun to grapple with the idea that the courts serve power as much as justice, and norms of collegiality are part of the problem. Are they prepared to embrace a more confrontational and openly political idea of the law?
