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
11/27/2022
Activists identify a German fascination with the American South as part of an effort to portray modern, increasingly multicultural Germany, as a white nation.
Source: Politico
11/30/2022
"Both Sarasota and Brevard’s school boards put the superintendents on the chopping block the same day that new members endorsed by DeSantis and conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty were sworn into office."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/30/2022
by Jeffrey Sachs
One leading commenter on questions of academic freedom evaluates the criticism of an oganization on the front lines, concluding that many critics are asking silly questions and leaving significant ones aside.
Source: New York Magazine
11/30/2022
The regime of Precision-Scheduled Railroading (PSR) has yielded immense profits but cannot accommodate unexpected worker absences. The current impasse is happening because executives and stockholders refuse to abandon the system.
Source: The Baffler
12/1/2022
It's impossible to consider the full meaning of privacy in society because courts and popular culture have construed the term to mean a kind of property that can be properly or improperly appropriated by another, instead of a kind of social relationship.
Source: Jezebel
11/22/2022
by Kim Kelly
The Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama has been on for more than 600 days. Labor writer Kim Kelly links miners' endurance to the work of women workers, miners' wives, and other women in past labor struggles.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/28/2022
At least 39 faculty members were forced out of Florida universities under the Johns Committee's investigation of alleged homosexual behavior. But the figure doesn't include the other lives and careers wrecked by the crusade.
Source: NPR
11/28/2022
A famine 90 years ago killed four million Ukrainians—and possibly more, deaths survivors blamed on Soviet Russia. The commemoration is a rallying point of resistance to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Source: New York Times
11/28/2022
By identifying the sources of skulls in its collection, France's Museum of Mankind fears it might open itself to demands for restitution.
Source: The New Yorker
11/29/2022
by Jay Caspian Kang
While public support for unions has grown in recent years, it's not clear if the public understands that the working class is now likely to be involved in knowledge work. The strike by University of California graduate workers hopes to change that.
Source: Vox
11/21/2022
As the number of students promises to contract in coming years, the workforces and communities that depend on small colleges and regional public universities face dire prospects.
Source: The New Republic
11/29/2022
A "black turtleneck uprising" of museum workers and adjunct professors tells us that brain work has become gig work, challenging cherished myths about education, opportunity and meritocracy.
Source: New York Times
11/22/2022
A legacy of innovation spurred by Hungarian clubs in the 1930s and 1950s sustained high quality soccer in eastern Europe through the fall of communism, but changing economic and social currents have diminished the competitiveness of former eastern bloc countries in today's big-money game.
Source: Los Angeles Times
11/21/2022
by Jean Guerrero
Both the activists behind two Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action and the funding network that supports them have close ties to overt white nationalists and anti-immigration leaders, suggesting that the lawsuits are less about fairness for all than about advantage for whites.
Source: Public Books
11/17/2022
by Clara E. Mattei
Austerity politics isn't simply about balancing government's books; it is a political means of declaring the primacy of capital.
Source: NextCity
11/18/2022
Will the success of the Philadelphia Museum of Art workers' strike help push more museums toward paying livable wages to their workers?
Source: Jacobin
11/20/2022
Despite "disappearing" 30,000 political opponents, FIFA allowed Argentina's military dicatorship to host the 1978 World Cup.
Source: Washington Post
11/12/2022
Educators argue that the proposed standards are politically motivated and slant instruction toward right-wing ideological positions.
Source: Defector
11/15/2022
"Without its armada of researchers and grad students, the UC system is essentially a baroque real estate scam." Those workers argue they deserve much more from the system in exchange for the labor that makes it run.
Source: Facing South
11/15/2022
Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South.
