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: Washington Post
10/8/2020
The administration's incompetent response to the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the otherwise non-political medical journal to endorse a vote against Donald Trump.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
by Peter Beinart
When other democracies have fallen into peril, they have sought help from the United Nations. The United States might consider it, writes Peter Beinart, since Black Americans have long had to appeal to the community of nations to intervene to secure their democratic rights.
Source: NPR
10/5/2020
Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, says that secrecy and obfuscation about his health "is one precedent this president is following."
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
Critic Carvell Wallace writes of the new television adaptation of James McBride's novel that trying to make entertainment out of the subject matter of slavery is an impossibility in 2020.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
Hailing him as a “major figure in American literature,” Souder further claims Steinbeck has “given the world several books that would last forever.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
10/1/2020
Orange County's popular historian Gustavo Arellano recounts a 1988 election day featuring the kind of nativist fearmongering about fraudulent voting coming from the White House today.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2020
The influential rock guitarist died today at age 65 after a battle with cancer.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/1/2020
Critics of the Department of Education contend that its investigations into alleged free speech violations by university administrations are part of a conservative politics of grievance aimed at higher education institutions. The DOE says conservative groups are being singled out.
Source: The Atlantic
10/2/2020
by Brian C. Kalt
We know who the decision makers would be, but we have no idea what they would decide—and what voters’ reactions would be.
Source: Washington Post
10/2/2020
by Victor Ray
"Ironically, Trump’s most recent executive order banning racial sensitivity training confirms critical race theory’s central point: Racism is embedded in the law."
Source: The New Yorker
10/5/2020
"To walk the streets of Santiago was to read a collective, anonymous scroll of inchoate rage: Abort the police, Die Piñera, ACAB, Bankers to the gallows. The graffiti was on seemingly every wall and sidewalk in the central districts of the city."
Source: Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina's Death Penalty
10/5/2020
A collaborative project examines the history of capital punishment in North Carolina, beginning with an introduction by death penalty litigator Henderson Hill.
Source: Brookings Institution
10/15/2020
by Willow Lung-Ammam
Trump and Carson do not want white America to see itself as recipients of federal welfare policies that made suburbs possible, profitable, and desirable–from Federal Housing Administration loans and interstate highways to mortgage interest deductions. Instead, they position white suburbanites as defenders of democracy.
Source: Gothamist
10/5/2020
Beneath the rhetoric rests a genuine policy debate over the extent to which the federal government needs to push municipalities to undo segregation. This debate has been going on since 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.
Source: Daily Iowan
10/5/2020
The university's statement claimed in essence that the threat of losing federal grants and contracts could not be ignored.
Source: CNN
10/6/2020
Representatives of the estate of the late Randy Wolfe, who claimed authorship, said the case nevertheless proved its point that "Led Zeppelin are the greatest art thieves of all time."
Source: New York Times
10/3/2020
Sarah Collins Rudolph has long argued that officials of the state of Alabama incited racial hatred that encouraged the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and that they must compensate her as a culpable party.
Source: New York Times
10/3/2020
German reunification allowed the return of far-right political movements, in large part because communist education in East Germany did not emphasize the role of nazism in the nation's history.
Source: The Atlantic
10/4/2020
Legal scholars and analysts Quinta Jurecic and Susan Hennessey argue that the extreme rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett before the election justifies a future Democratic attempt to expand the Supreme Court.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/3/2020
Student Ashton Weber recently helped create a petition, signed by more than 200 undergraduates, calling for Jenkins to resign because of his repeated failures to follow the public-safety precautions expected of students.
