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: Vanity Fair
4/8/2020
Mrs. America doesn’t dwell just on Phyllis Schlafly. An ensemble series, it gathers an array of compelling women who’ve never quite gotten their due in history books, let alone had a prestige TV series devoted to them.
Source: ProPublica
4/7/2020
As the government rushes to aid the economy, how that’s done, who benefits and who is left behind matter. So far, the signs are ominous.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/6/2020
First time a white supremacist organization Is targeted by terrorism designation.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
4/7/2020
Bob Dylan once said, “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.”
Source: The New York Times
4/6/2020
The designation of the Russian Imperial Movement reflects growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links.
Source: The New York Times
4/5/2020
In acknowledging that many of its artifacts had tainted histories and that others were fake, the institution hopes candor will build trust.
Source: PBS
4/5/2020
Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of “Why Trust Science?” explores whether or not the world's lack of preparation for the coronavirus outbreak has a silver lining.
Source: The New York Review of Books
4/5/2020
Ten New York Review writers document their experiences with the coronavirus from all over the globe.
Source: Washington Post
4/6/2020
Myron Rolle’s hands are used to moving from one unalike task to another. He has batted away footballs and wielded a blade in neurosurgery with equal deftness at the top levels, so dealing with the novel coronavirus would be just another stretch, if not for an unsettling major difference: He is being asked to play without a helmet.
Source: The New York Times
4/6/2020
The coronavirus outbreak is likely to bring into focus the legitimacy and governance deficit of troubled Middle Eastern regimes.
Source: Washington Post
4/5/2020
But what Ellson wants people to know—“if I can preach for a minute,” she requested with a laugh—is that this, like everything else, will pass.
Source: Vox
4/6/2020
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority, in a case that is literally titled Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, handed down a decision that will effectively disenfranchise tens of thousands of Wisconsin voters. It did so at the urging of the GOP.
Source: New York Daily News
4/6/2020
During this pandemic, the threat posed by these extremists is even more pronounced.
Source: National Catholic Reporter
4/6/2020
Democrats might want to make copies of the president's signing statement and mail it to all Americans, highlighting the passages where the president insists there will be no oversight.
Source: Washington Post
4/6/2020
Here is a lesson for students and everybody else on the history of voter suppression in this country.
Source: WAMU.org
4/6/2020
Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as “Zoombombing."
Source: New York Times
4/6/2020
The palace has called on skilled designers, historians, botanists and gardeners to apply their expertise to the complicated work of restoring that spot, called Le Bosquet de la Reine, or the Queen’s Grove.
Source: New York Times
4/6/2020
The truth is that when it comes to public health, the Union has done what its member nations wanted it to do: not much.
Source: Mother Jones
4/6/2020
The needs of Native communities, which were brutally colonized through overt violence and smallpox, a pandemic, hold a particular place in US jurisprudence—one that has long been overlooked.
Source: The American Interest
4/6/2020
by Charles Edel
America’s experience in WWII can and should inform our response to the coronavirus.
