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: NPR
12/17/2022
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that the revocation of the physicist's clearance after his opposition to the US hydrogen bomb project was the result of a biased process, one historian Kai Bird calls a "kangaroo court."
Source: Los Angeles Times
12/19/2022
Understanding AMLO's popularity—he is by some measures the most domestically popular leader in the world—requires leaving the elite precincts of Mexico City, ignoring the statements of wealthy opponents, and visiting the impoverished regions of southern Mexico.
Source: The Atlantic
12/20/2022
by Alan Z. Rozenshtein and Jed Shugerman
The defense that Trump's speech about a stolen election, even if deliberately untruthful, constitutes protected political speech is plausible, but prosecutors can situate the remarks in the context of other actions to overturn the election.
Source: Washington Post
12/17/2022
Influential ads produced by Shakespeare helped Nixon to associate crime and disorder with opponents and overcome suspicion of Nixon's character and personality.
Source: Washington Post
12/16/2022
As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history.
Source: Washington Post
12/20/2022
As Jews around the world are considering Israel as a refuge from antisemitism, that country's religious fundamentalist parties have the political leverage to decide that many fewer people are Jewish enough to qualify for immigration and citizenship. American Reform Jews are particularly affected.
Source: The New Republic
12/16/2022
The novelist targeted the absurdities and self-congratulation of utilitarian philosophers, the forerunners of the tech industry's "effective altruism," in his 1854 "Hard Times."
Source: Undark
12/14/2022
by Deborah Blum
A researcher discovered a pattern in the experimental vetting of SAT test questions in the 1990s: questions on which Black students outscored White students in trials were usually excluded from future tests. This practice is linked back to the roots of IQ testing in the eugenics movement.
Source: The Atlantic
12/19/2022
Lion Feuchtwanger's "The Oppermans" captures the complexity of a dilemma faced by German Jews in 1933: whether a society has become sufficiently hostile to a minority group to force its members to leave.
Source: The New Republic
12/15/2022
Governments are entirely unprepared to respond to the potential of private companies to produce de-extinction of wildlife.
Source: New York Times
12/13/2022
Major American institutions are loath to acknowledge that they enabled the rehabilitation of Nazi scientists and industrialists to benefit from their knowledge or wealth.
Source: Washington Post
12/13/2022
At the New School (as well as at image-minded companies like Starbucks) an educated workforce and a progressive clientele increasingly expects management's treatment of workers to match its stated values, writes Post columnist Helaine Olen.
Source: NBC News
12/10/2022
Along with cofounding Ms. Magazine, she was a leader in connecting women's liberation to social welfare policies, child services, and domestic violence.
Source: The Atlantic
12/14/2022
by Ryan Busse
"As bad as America’s gun-violence problem is, it could be about to get much worse," says former gun industry insider turned whistleblower. The selective reading of the historical record advanced by Justice Thomas's opinion would force judges to play historian to decide cases, destabilizing gun law in many ways.
Source: New York Times
12/14/2022
Civil Rights lawyer Ron Kuby called the fire a blow to "the hopes and dreams of uncounted innocent people."
Source: Mother Jones
12/15/2022
"Suicide by Cop" emerged as a descriptive phrase in the context of a crackdown on crime and an abandonment of police accountability, making a large portion of killings by officers seem natural and unavoidable.
Source: The Baffler
12/15/2022
by Mackenzie Lukenbill
The collected papers of AIDS educator and activist Chloe Dzubilo stand as a "counter-archive," which does not just preserve a record of the past but makes it a trigger for thought and action in the present.
Source: NPR
12/12/2022
Stefan Grossman started studying Davis's fingerpicked style after the older man had settled in the Bronx in the 1960s.
Source: New York Times
12/12/2022
"In practice, the books most frequently targeted for removal have been by or about Black or L.G.B.T.Q. people, according to the American Library Association."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12/12/2022
Withholding grading labor as students return to campus after the COVID years is a risky move but at the New School, faculty built some solidarity with students that bolstered their position. Will that work in the University of California system?
