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: Axios
8/27/2020
Neither campaign can control the events — or root causes — driving America’s summer of unrest. But they both want to control the narrative.
Source: Brookings Institute
8/26/2020
The RNC abandoned writing any policy platform in favor of a statement of “enthusiastic support” for the decisions of President Trump.
Source: Brennan Center
8/27/2000
A report from the Brennan Center for Justice documents the long history of racism in law enforcement and the lack of attention to recent FBI warnings that white supremacists groups are infiltrating law enforcement agencies.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/2020
Speakers at the Republican National Convention had a loose relationship with historical facts.
Source: CNN
8/27/2020
Political scientist Andra Gillespie describes how the party power shifted in this country.
Source: Forbes
8/26/2020
By hosting part of the GOP convention at the White House, the Trump administration is accused of violating the 1939 federal ethics law.
Source: Huffington Post
8/27/2020
Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.
Source: The Hill
8/26/2020
Rep. Bobby Rush's legislation would create a National Park Service program to speed the removal of Confederate monuments across the country.
Source: New York Times
8/18/2020
Although only a handful of specialized professionals are aware of the difference between two standard measurements of a foot, confusion among the standards has the potential to complicate architecture, meteorology, and surveying.
Source: New York Times
8/24/2020
The discovery offers clues to the relations between different empires that controlled the region centuries ago.
Source: The Nation
8/25/2020
by Nicole Sussner Rodgers and Deadric T. Williams
Social scientists have long entertained the theory that persistent Black poverty results from in-group cultural deficiency. Now the field of poverty studies faces a growing rebellion of scholars who call this victim-blaming.
Source: PBS News Hour
8/25/2020
While women of color have been sometimes overlooked throughout history, you can’t miss suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells inside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station right now.
Source: New York Times
8/22/2020
It will surprise no one if Trump pursues the sort of negative race-baiting campaign that George H.W. Bush used to rally after trailing Michael Dukakis in the summer. What remains to be seen will be if Trump can convincingly portray Biden as a greater danger to the public.
Source: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
8/22/2020
“The people that were (in Portsmouth) 200 years ago are still there, and their descendants are still in power,” said Norfolk State University history professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander. “And they’re making sure that they maintain the status quo and do everything to fight against any changes — any challenges — to the status quo."
Source: New York Magazine
8/20/2020
The Democratic Party has changed considerably since Joe Biden first attended a party convention, making his constant presence in the party noteworthy.
Source: Brennan Center
8/20/2020
A report from the Brennan Center concludes that martial law is poorly defined in American law, but the President lacks the authority to declare it unilaterally.
Source: Reuters
8/21/2020
Some of the changes don’t necessarily involve new material, but rather teaching the same material from a new perspective.
Source: Election Law Blog
8/21/2020
A lawyer who litigated a key voter suppression case in 1981 argues that the expiration of the resulting federal consent decree means the parties may feel free to attempt to intimidate voters at the polls.
Source: Medium
8/21/2020
by Bill Dunlap
William Dunlap, a former Assistant Postmaster General who helped implement the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act, warns that the most serious cost of recent "reforms" may be to undermine public confidence in the Post Office as a non-political public service.
Source: Washington Post
8/24/2020
In 1932, FDR flew to Chicago Stadium and became the first presidential nominee to give an acceptance speech at a political convention.
