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 Atlantic
11/14/2022
by Linda Greenhouse
As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
Source: The Atlantic
11/11/2022
Antismoking PSAs shifted attention from individual smokers to the tobacco companies profiting from selling dangerous products. Can the same work to reduce the appeal of guns?
Source: TIME
11/12/2022
by Olivia B. Waxman
Political scientists find that the prediction of a wave election failed for a number of reasons.
Source: The Atlantic
11/8/2022
by Rebecca Nagle
"The U.S. has been passing laws that treat tribes and tribal citizens differently from non-Native citizens since the founding of the republic. If that is unconstitutional, the entire legal structure defending the legal rights of Indigenous nations could crumble."
Source: The New Yorker
11/4/2022
by Jay Caspian Kang
New Yorker writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that while the benefit of "diversity" is largely uncontested, the brand of diversity that Harvard and other elite institutions want to ensure is circumscribed by the bounds of economic elitism, a far cry from the high moral purposes originally claimed for affirmative action.
Source: Los Angeles Times
11/9/2022
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion, argue the L.A. Times editors, that the University of California system must make wage concessions to allow their graduate student workers to afford housing anywhere near their campuses.
Source: AL.com
11/9/2022
"If faculty approve the current proposal, some students may be able to graduate without taking a college-level history, literature or language course."
Source: Washington Post
11/9/2022
"Through sheer perseverance and patience, Mr. Lazar became a kind of Zen master of the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, a provision enacted in 1967 that allowed the public a centralized way to request unclassified government material."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
11/9/2022
The course, which examines the makings and effects of the historical, political and cultural category of "whiteness" was a target for critics who mistakenly presented it as an example of "anti-white hate."
Source: Organization of American Historians
11/9/2022
"If the court strikes down the ICWA in whole or in part, the decision could have devastating impacts on Native American families and, potentially, on federal Indian law writ large. Resuming the practice of Native child removal would cause active harm to Native families as well as jeopardize the future sovereignty of tribal governments.
Source: Vox
11/6/2022
by Donald Moynihan
Conservative rhetoric has long portrayed government as ineffective and inefficient. But potraying civil servants as enemies and traitors is new and dangerous.
Source: Los Angeles Times
11/6/2022
by Nick Buttrick
White Southerners' efforts to reclaim power after Reconstruction help explain how Americans think about guns: what they're used for, and whom they're used against.
Source: Slate
11/1/2022
by Jerome Karabel
Despite the enthusiasm of the plaintiffs and the conservative justices for the comparison, Harvard's treatment of Asian American applicants today doesn't match its treatment of Jewish students in the 1920s.
Source: New York Magazine
11/1/2022
Greene wrote about restaurants as arenas for the display of status and a part of the city's culture, the way that the dining public did.
Source: The Nation
11/7/2022
The policies the Federal Reserve has pursued in response to inflation threaten to treat the problem with a recession that will harm working families and potentially doom the Biden administration. Why hasn't the President pushed back against the bankers?
Source: The Century Foundation
11/4/2022
After a few months in the spotlight, the movement of opposition to CRT has shifted toward the quieter work of promoting charter school networks that can use public funds to teach a whitewashed version of American history.
Source: Slate
11/5/2022
"The Need to Be Whole once again considers the question that Berry has spent his entire life contemplating: How can we live among our fellow creatures in a way that is honorable, just, and as sustaining of our souls as of our material needs?" A reviewer doesn't think his latest work succeeds.
Source: Dallas Morning News
11/8/2022
by Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead
New survey data says that the growing Christian Nationalist movement is broader than previously believed, and a potential political force in many places.
Source: TIME
11/7/2022
by Silas House
"As I watched the storming of the Capitol in horror I saw the Christian Nationalism of the outsider church I grew up in on display for the whole world to see."
Source: TIME
11/4/2022
From federal judges to local public health departments and school boards, violent threats against public officials are increasingly part of the political scene, according to Clarence Anthony of the National League of Cities.
