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 Nation
12/12/2022
The likes of Newt Gingrich and Pat Buchanan were eager to use the symbolism of food to characterize Democrats as scolds, busybodies, and elitists. What Americans eat has been difficult to untangle from politics ever since.
Source: New York Times
12/11/2022
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps texts offer information on a wide variety of subjects, including military history, without the kind of oversight that mainstream textbooks receive. The result is a curriculum shot through with right-wing ideology and historical myth.
Source: NextCity
12/13/2022
In 1987, there were an estimated 206 lesbian bars across the U.S. Phoenix's Boycott Bar is one of fewer than two dozen that remain today.
Source: War on the Rocks
12/13/2022
by Kori Schake
"If America wants to retain a military that recruits from all parts of the citizenry and brings them together into an effective fighting force, it should both correct that public perception and better insulate the military from being a pawn in partisan political disputes."
Source: Washington Post
12/6/2022
Stewart's label in its heyday trailed only Motown Records as a purveyor of soul music, and the label's house bands created a distinctive and enduring style associated with Memphis.
Source: ProPublica
12/3/2022
The government has failed to regulate or control groundwater pollution from the uranium mines that built America's nuclear arsenal.
Source: The Baffler
12/8/2022
by Kim Kelly
Why did the "most pro-union president" in modern times push through a negotiated settlement rejected by the majority of railroad union members, and what would Eugene Debs think?
Source: NPR
12/6/2022
Pong's develper and Atari cofounder Allan Alcorn: "I didn't think the company would last long because most startup companies didn't. And so I thought it would fail after a while, but it'd be a lot of fun."
Source: New York Times
12/6/2022
Quirky custom or exercise in cutthroat depravity? The roots of White Elephant trace back to the 1890s.
Source: Washington Post
12/5/2022
Software engineer Daniel Patt has developed an artificial intelligence program that can expedite the searching of photos from repositories like Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has provided strangers with the gift of a connection to their relatives.
Source: New York Times
12/6/2022
The institution's historical left-leaning roots are coming into conflict with the New School administration's efforts to shift teaching labor to temporary, adjunct and contingent faculty and intransigence in bargaining with their union.
Source: Washington Post
12/1/2022
The uranium at Coles Hill is potentially worth billions of dollars.
Source: New York Times
12/6/2022
Luce helped expose the torture and human rights abuses carried out by the government of South Vietnam, and campaigned against the war after being expelled from South Vietnam as an aid worker.
Source: Science
12/2/2022
Recognizing the social construction of "race" categories, geneticists have largely stopped using the term. Is this because they have abandoned the idea of profound divisions among human populations, or have they adapted other terminology to perform the same function?
Source: The Atlantic
12/4/2022
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has explained his presence in an anti-integration mob as an innocent coincidence. As the most powerful owner in the NFL, he likewise leads an organization that exhibits racial inequality without anyone feeling responsible for it.
Source: Foreign Policy
12/2/2022
Military commanders in Eastern Europe have long tried to deal with the effects of bitter winter on morale and logistics. How is it likely to affect the Ukrainian counterattack against Russia?
Source: Mother Jones
12/6/2022
In 1818, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina sent John Quincy Adams a fake document that made it look like Pinckney was a principal author of the 1787 Constitution. At the time, the ruse was rejected. Why are Supreme Court conservatives looking to this document in to justify their decisions?
Source: The Progressive
12/5/2022
by Peter Greene
The multifront culture war beseiging schools has one unifying principle: undermining trust in public schools so they can be privatized, without regard for the best interests of children.
Source: Washington Post
11/30/2022
"We know, at least in the abstract, what happened in the days and years after this photo of Jones was taken. He was there and he is here."
Source: Washington Post
11/25/2022
The ballet's roots in the celebration of czarist absolutism and imperial expansion doesn't jibe with its modern status as an anodyne holiday classic.
