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 Bulwark
4/7/2020
Before they were instructed by management to perform an about-face, a chorus of Trump-loyal anchors and pundits and hosts downplayed the lethality of the infectious disease.
Source: Huffington Post
4/6/2020
Reeves has long had ties to pro-Confederate organizations.
Source: Dissent
4/6/2020
Kevin Clark had to fight for protective equipment from the waste hauling company where he works even before the pandemic. Things aren’t much better now.
Source: CBS News
4/7/2020
Survivors of the Holocaust now have the chance to preserve their stories in a way that allows them to directly answer future generations' questions about their experiences.
Source: The New York Times
4/3/2020
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and Puerto Rico have rescheduled their contests.
Source: Dissent
4/2/2020
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
Source: Washington Post
4/3/2020
This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.
Source: New York Times
4/2/2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief money is being spent.
Source: Artnet News
4/2/2020
One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.
Source: The Nation
4/1/2020
The Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds.
Source: Freedom Forum
4/2/2020
“Be nice” — two words not found anywhere among the 45 words of the First Amendment.
Source: New York Magazine
3/30/2020
by Benjamin Wallace
Before he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.
Source: Daily Beast
4/2/2020
While the president was still downplaying the COVID-19 epidemic, an Army briefing shared with The Daily Beast shows the service warning of the scale of death Trump now concedes.
Source: New York Times
4/1/2020
While political leaders have locked their borders, scientists have been shattering theirs, creating a global collaboration unlike any in history.
Source: Los Angeles Times
3/31/2020
Why should it be easier to buy marijuana than a good book at a store in Los Angeles during the coronavirus shutdown?
Source: Fast Company
3/24/2020
The most important design object of our time was more than a century in the making.
Source: The Atlantic
4/1/2020
by Adam Serwer
Washington gridlock stems from the ideological conviction, held by much of the Republican Party, that the Democratic Party is inherently illegitimate and has no right to govern.
Source: New York Magazine
3/30/2020
Now that state-run electoral systems are in chaos in the midst of a pandemic, with no assurances the conditions for normal voting behavior will return by November, the odds of a contested general election (not just by Trump, but by elements of both parties) have gone up.
Source: New York Times
3/30/2020
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
Source: ABC Religion and Ethics
3/30/2020
For a case study in coping with disappointment in the context of isolation and social distancing, we find a surprising source of help in Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
