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
1/20/20
by Gillian Brockell
King first learned about Gandhi as a seminary student in 1949, just a year after Gandhi had been assassinated. He soon wrote about Gandhi in his schoolwork as a person who “greatly reveal[s] the working of the Spirit of God.”
Source: The Hill
1/18/20
by Jonathan Turley
"Past impeachments have shown that senators can indeed transcend petty political instincts when their names are called, not just by the clerk but by history, and rightly so."
Source: Washington Post
1/18/20
“This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”
Source: Washington Post
1/17/20
A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.
Source: Washington Post
1/14/20
One by one, rare books vanished from the library — the Journal of George Washington; a copy of Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” valued at nearly $1 million; an Atlas by a 19th-century German explorer worth $1.2 million.
Source: Washington Post
1/16/20
As Trump’s trial gets set to begin, the spotlight is inevitably turning — just as it did with Johnson — to the chief justice of the United States, who must somehow preside over this very odd, kind-of-sort-of legal process of politicians sitting in judgment of the country’s commander in chief.
Source: Time
1/14/20
The hundreds of unpaid volunteers who participated filled out a series of questionnaires and made regular diary entries. They wrote about the intimate details of their lives as well as their thoughts and feelings about the world around them.
Source: PolitiFact
1/14/20
Four experts told us there is no evidence that Japan ever seriously considered such an invasion and that military limitations, not Americans armed with hunting weapons, were the reasons why.
Source: WBUR
1/16/20
Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.
Source: YouGov
1/13/20
New study reveals stark divides on how Americans think about the Confederate flag.
Source: History.com
1/13/20
Since the demolition crew’s report was top secret, no word emerged about the whereabouts of the missing atomic bomb. Were there clues in the wreckage that the bomb had in fact been released prior to impact?
Source: Washington Post
1/11/20
Disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert’s name was trending on Twitter Saturday morning after President Trump suggested “Nancy Pelosi will go down as the absolute worst Speaker of the House in U.S. History!”
Source: Washington Post
1/11/20
For the past 17 years, the United States has maintained a military presence in Iraq.
Source: Business Insider
1/7/20
According to historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman, as cited by Brookings, this was Trump's first known comment on US foreign policy.
Source: The Conversation
1/10/20
by Susanna Lee
Many might feel bewildered and demoralized. But fans of the 19th-century French novel have seen this before.
Source: Time
1/10/20
Here’s what you need to know about some of the deadliest attacks on civilian aircraft.
Source: The Conversation
1/12/20
by Nancy Cushing
City dwellers in southeast Australia have been forced to take a crash course in the finer points of air pollution.
Source: MPR News
1/13/20
Camilla Townsend’s new book, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," documents the story of the Aztecs from an entirely new perspective, that of the Aztecs themselves.
Source: NY Times
1/12/20
American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.
Source: The Conversation
1/13/20
by Kristin Heineman
The Babylonians, who lived in modern-day Iraq, were astute observers and interpreters of the heavens, and it is largely thanks to them that our weeks are seven days long.
