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 Conversation
5/2/19
by Steffen W. Schmidt
Since the earliest years of the republic, candidates have used deceptive, underhanded and dubiously legal tactics to discredit their opponents.
Source: The Atlantic
5/1/19
The remarkable, fossilized jawbone has no chin, and the teeth within it are exceptionally large.
Source: Time
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by Jason Baumann
Given the tremendous gains made by LGBTQ activists in the intervening years, it can be difficult for people to remember the oppression suffered by LGBTQ people in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s.
Source: Time
4/28/19
Conservative and patriarchal Japan excludes women -- who make up 13 of the 18 members of the royal family -- from taking the throne. But this wasn't always the case.
Source: Reuters
4/30/19
The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholarship reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.
Source: Washington Post
4/27/19
The month and a half in 1991 that radically changed the politics of abortion in Kansas.
Source: Washington Post
4/29/19
Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.
Source: Washington Post
4/29/19
Unseating a president from his own party isn’t easy.
Source: NY Times
4/28/19
In choosing a scholar over a satirist, the Correspondents’ Association had sought to solemnize a dinner known for its comedic puncturing of the Washington bubble.
Source: Washington Examiner
4/26/19
Joe Biden has a political imperative as he embarks on his 2020 presidential bid — to be more like Ronald Reagan circa 1980 and less like Jeb Bush in 2016.
Source: Washington Post
4/27/19
Since 1873, the City of New York has put out a daily paper that is essential reading for those who want to do business with the city.
Source: NY Times
4/27/19
Most are believed to be the remains of Jews slaughtered by the Nazis after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Belarus was then part of the Soviet nation.
Source: Washington Post
4/30/19
Feauturing the reserach of historian Ibram X. Kendi.
Source: The Conversation
4/30/19
by Jason C. Bivins
When three historically African American churches were burned downrecently in southern Louisiana, it evoked memories of the violence of the civil rights era.
Source: BBC News
4/20/19
Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.
Source: The Conversation
4/24/19
by Monica Duffy Toft
Internal strife, perhaps civil war or collapse often precedes a decisive demographic shift.
Source: NY Times
4/15/19
Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.
Source: Refinery 29
4/24/19
"She was a feminist before the feminist movement,” remarked Imani Perry.
Source: Inside Higher Education
4/24/19
Chapman University removes posters from prominent places in its film school after students object to centrality of a work full of racism.
Source: The Economist
4/25/19
Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before.
