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 Harvard Gazette
11-14-18
“If we, as an institution, don’t find the way to find that middle, we stand a chance of going the way that our other branches of government have gone, and losing the respect that is at the core of our institution.”
Source: NYT
11-8-18
Seventy-five years after the artist's "Four Freedoms" series ran in The Saturday Evening Post, a number of artists are reinterpreting it to include today's more diverse culture.
Source: NYT
11-13-18
That is because the Constitution says that the ultimate arbiter of who gets a Senate seat is the Senate itself — not election officials or the courts.
Source: Newsweek
11-11-18
Le Monde report says he accused confused leaders of starting Yugoslav wars.
Source: NYT
10-25-18
Through its immersive experiences, dramatic videos, and impressively encyclopedic collection of artifacts on display in its permanent exhibition, the National World War I Museum explodes the nuances of The Great War.
11/13/18
"It's important to understand, first of all, that this is not simply a one-off or a joke in bad taste."
Source: The Daily Beast
11-13-18
He says the U.S. had to rescue them.
Source: NYT
11-9-18
Amid a resurgence of xenophobia that has reshaped Germany’s political landscape, the nation’s leaders warned that Germans must defend democracy to ensure that hate crimes like Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led burning of synagogues and plundering of Jewish shops 80 years ago, “never again” take place.
Source: The Washington Post
11-9-18
The move came after a campaign called Time for Inclusive Education presented a series of suggestions to the Scottish government.
Source: The Economist
11-8-18
Democracy and peace are linked, but the relationship is complex.
Source: NYT
11-10-18
As leaders commemorate the end of WWI, some of the same forces that threatened democracy and peace 100 years ago are resurgent today.
Source: CNN
11-10-18
Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump announced as acting attorney general on Wednesday after he fired Jeff Sessions, made the comments during a failed 2014 run for the Republican Senate nomination in Iowa.
Source: The Washington Post
11-12-18
Memoirs by first ladies often outsell those of their husbands. But that wasn’t the case in 1899.
Source: Smithsonian
11-7-18
Initial finds include hunter-gatherer site on outskirts of London, Wars of the Roses battlefield, Industrial Revolution burial guard.
Source: The Guardian
11-8-18
Ruth Barnett and her brother were helped by the Quakers to get to the UK from Berlin. But, four years after the war, she was forced to return to Germany by her mother.
Source: The Washington Post
11-8-18
Measured against the strength of the economy, the GOP’s losses in the House mark the worst midterm results for a president's own party in at least a century, per Michael Cembalest, JPMorgan Asset Management’s chairman of market and investment strategy.
Source: NYT
11-8-18
Three new genetic analyses lend detail, and mystery, to the migration of prehistoric humans throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Source: NYT
11-6-18
A growing number of Hispanics from the United States are choosing to benefit from a 2015 Spanish law seeking to atone for one of the grimmest chapters in Spain’s history: the expulsion of thousands of Sephardic Jews in 1492. The law offers citizenship to descendants of those Jews.
Source: The Guardian
11-8-18
Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel was executed in Poland days after her 18th birthday. Decades after her diary resurfaced in America, it is finally set to be read by the world.
Source: The Washington Post
11-7-18
In 1868, Congress had just forced Florida to rewrite its constitution to allow every man the right to vote, but adding thousands of newly eligible black residents to the rolls would abruptly make whites a voting minority. Combined with postwar laws that made it easy to saddle black residents with criminal records, a lifetime voting ban on anyone with a felony conviction legislators knew they could suppress black votes indefinitely.
