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
4/30/2020
The Association of Art Museum Directors has relaxed its guidelines against selling works of art for operating funds. Now, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole—or to fend off a total financial meltdown—is suddenly something to contemplate.
Source: Harvard Law Today
4/28/2020
Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet discusses his research on FDR’s 1937 attempt to pack the Court, and the prospects for increasing the number of justices.
Source: Foreign Policy
4/29/2020
The dispute over a statue of a Soviet Army officer in Prague reflects Russian efforts to claim a heroic role in defeating fascism, eastern European nationalism, and contemporary power dynamics in the region.
Source: Foreign Policy
4/29/2020
The drastic changes to American national security policy instituted after 9/11 helped make the nation vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak and less able to fight it.
Source: National Parks Service
4/27/2020
The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.
Source: The New York Times
4/27/2020
A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely.
Source: Snopes
4/27/2020
States may in fact use police powers to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons within their borders.
Source: The New York Times
4/28/2020
The strikes and protests of the past month have been small, but they aren’t inconsequential.
Source: Smithsonian
4/28/2020
The dairy company's decision to remove an iconic logo has been praised and (and occasionally condemned). Learn the history of the logo and reaction to it here.
Source: Lead Stories
4/27/2020
There is no evidence that both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to destroy the Federal Reserve system (which also did not exist in Lincoln's day).
Source: Click2Houston
4/27/2020
Councilman Michael Kubosh compared the violation of social distancing orders to the actions of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Source: WAMU
4/27/2020
Since 1958, Ben's Chili Bowl has been many things, a restaurant, meeting place, community center, and landmark. Now, the iconic DC institution is struggling to survive the coronavirus.
Source: LA Times
4/26/2020
The man behind the original “Penny Dreadful,” which ran for three seasons and drew on famed figures from Gothic literature, has now taken an oft-forgotten piece of history, added the supernatural and the culturally specific iconography of Santa Muerte, and produced Showtime’s spinoff “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels."
Source: Stars and Stripes
4/23/2020
“This symbol has shown it has the power to inflame feelings of division,” Gen. David Berger wrote in a letter to Marines dated Monday and included in a tweet.
Source: Washington Post
4/23/2020
The young man was taken from jail, beaten and shot before being hanged in front of a cheering crowd.
Normally, South Korean officials maintain a neither-confirm-nor-deny policy, at least on the record, for fear of disturbing sensitive relations between the two Koreas.
Source: Virginia Mercury
4/27/2020
Although the 1964 Times v. Sullivan ruling makes it unlikely Trump would win a libel suit against a media outlet, the adminstration wants to break the historical relationship between the press and public figures.
Source: New York Times
4/26/2020
A Republican state senator in Michigan apologized for wearing a homemade mask that resembled the Confederate battle flag on the Senate floor on Friday.
Source: The Jurist
4/25/2020
The decision in a suit brought by Detroit students against the state of Michigan referenced a number of historic cases and revives the question of whether inequality among school systems violates equal protection under the Constitution.
Source: Bloomberg
4/28/2020
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has a key role to play in reopening the economy, but it has fewer inspectors than at any time since 1975, continuing a pattern of decline that dates to 1981.
