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 Atlantic
3/31/2020
There is a long history of world leaders framing fights against disease within the context of war.
Source: New York Post
3/30/2020
“I remember reading that she called her paper the next day and held the phone out the window [so they could hear the gunfire and chaos] and said, ‘It’s happening right now!'”
Source: American Civil War Museum
3/30/2020
The presence of new citizens in the form of formerly enslaved people forced Congress to consider what citizenship and voting actually meant.
Source: New York Times
3/28/2020
Two extraordinary women — one 101, the other 95 — lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.
Source: Fortune
3/30/2020
The USPS is the federal government’s most favorably viewed agency, with an approval rating of 90%.
Source: NPR
3/24/2020
Ruling unanimously, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a videographer who spent two decades documenting the salvaging of Blackbeard's ship cannot sue the state of North Carolina in federal court for using his videos without his permission.
Source: Washington Post
3/31/2020
You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”
Source: Associated Press
3/29/2020
The north-south divide that has dogged the European Union for years has resurfaced as the virus has galloped across the continent.
Source: New York Times
3/30/2020
Around the world, the history of our present moment is taking shape in journal entries and drawings.
Source: Washington Post
3/28/2020
Some “Twilight Zone” stories are especially relevant to life under self-quarantine, and some episodes of the classic series can be a diverting emotional escape.
Source: Washington Post
3/25/2020
by Karen Tumulty
Perhaps, before too long, the troublemaker with a gavel will finally get her wish—to no longer hear herself introduced as the most powerful woman in American history.
Source: The Nation
3/30/2020
by Jeet Heer
Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists.
Source: New York Times
3/28/2020
The Coronavirus Task Force squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread. Instead, Americans were left largely blind to the scale of a looming public health catastrophe.
Source: New York Times
3/29/2020
As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage.
Source: CBS Boston
3/28/2020
Students at Simmons University and Wentworth Institute of Technology are honoring Women's History Month by improving the online representation of female activists.
Source: New York Times
3/30/2020
No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.
Source: Detroit Free Press
3/29/2020
How similar is coronavirus mobilization to World War II mobilization?
Source: Vice
3/29/2020
“A civil war really broke out between the military veterans of Vietnam over this design,” said Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
Source: Mother Jones
3/29/2020
For the past 40 years, the Chinese government has promoted the wild animal trade as a form of rural economic development.
Source: The New York Times
3/29/2020
As Asian-Americans face racist attacks and President Trump has tied the virus to China, community and political leaders have tried to comfort constituents. But even they admit to feeling unnerved.
