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: The New Republic
9/4/2020
Donald Trump's "law and order" campaign message has failed to gain significant traction, which should put lazy comparisons to 1968 out to pasture.
Source: New York Times
9/3/2020
“The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate,” Mr. Powell writes, “by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
9/4/2020
by Ariel Dorfman
The Chilean author Ariel Dorfman warns that while his country elected a democratic socialist in a landmark election, it was unprepared to deal with violent and ruthless efforts to maintain the status quo. Joe Biden is no socialist, but if he wins, his administration and Americans at large must be similarly prepared.
Source: USA Today
9/4/2020
"As a publication that’s underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power."
Source: Washington Post
9/1/2020
Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson.
Source: Kansas City Star
9/2/2020
We can keep calling it Jackson County, but instead of Andrew we can all agree it honors Bo. Put up a statute of Bo Jackson snapping a hickory bat over his knee, and let’s call it a day.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
9/1/2020
Landmark status would further honor Emmett and Mamie Till’s tragic but critical role in American history.
Source: The Atlantic
9/3/2020
Sources close to Donald Trump cite multiple instances where the self-sacrifice of military personnel appeared incomprehensible to the President, who, those sources say, has expressed contempt for the military dead.
Source: Esquire
9/1/2020
by Charles P. Pierce
Political commentator Charles Pierce reflects on efforts to update the visiting experience at James Madison's Montpelier estate to better address the work and lives of enslaved people there.
Source: Utah Public Radio
9/1/2020
Photographer Matika Wilbur began in 2012 to visit and photograph the 562 Native American sovereign territories in the United States to combat inaccurate views of modern Native life.
Source: Associated Press
9/2/2020
National Cancer Institute findings suggest that it is likely that some people exposed to fallout from the Trinity atomic bomb tests got cancer as a result. However, the incomplete data available make it unclear if the findings will help advance legislation to compensate "downwinders" for health damage.
Source: New York Times
9/3/2020
The bitter history of a federal lawsuit demanding that Yonkers, NY create low-income housing (which would allow more nonwhite residents to live in the city) informs Donald Trump's campaign pledges to protect the suburbs from evils he associates with fair housing laws.
Source: New York Times
9/1/2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau angered Canadian antiracism activists by condemning vandalism of a statue of the country's first Prime Minister. He angered other Canadians by not offering a stronger condemnation at a time when public acknowledgment of Candian oppression of indigenous people is becoming a hot issue.
Source: The Atlantic
9/1/2020
The rise of a new generation of Black mayors in Southern cities may signal a new political dynamic as municipal governments draw energy from protest movements and improvise ways to meet public needs, if conservative state governments don't stop them.
Source: Washington Post
9/2/2020
Basic American institutions like the Electoral College and the Senate work to enhance the power of White Americans at the expense of racial minorities.
Source: Haymarket Books
9/2/2020
Roberto Lovato discusses his new book "Unforgetting" with Mike Davis.
Source: Miller Center (University of Virginia)
9/2/2020
The University of Virginia's Miller Center hosts an online program on the 2020 elections featuring historians David M. Kennedy and Margaret O'Mara, Journalist Yamiche Alcindor, and political analyst Larry Sabato, beginning at 10:00 AM eastern on September 3.
Source: New York Times
8/29/2020
The uncensored memoir makes the claim that torture interrupted and undermined effective interrogations by other means.
Source: Washington Monthly
9/1/2020
A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.
Source: New York Times
8/27/2020
The artist Jacob Lawrence died in 2000; he spent a day in New York museums with Times art critic Michael Kimmelman four years before, discussing art and his creative process.
