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: NPR
August 23, 2018
Back in the 1980s, the rumor that AIDS was human-made was based partially on a report written in 1986 by Russian-born biophysicist Jakob Segal.
Source: Haaretz
August 23, 2018
Maurice Cohen, a Polish Holocaust survivor, according to the Wall Street Journal urged his son to be honest about Trump, saying that he did not survive the Holocaust for Trump to "sully" his family name.
Source: NYT
August 22, 2018
Look to the Framers for the answer.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 21, 2018
The saga of UNC’s confederate statue is far from over.
Source: NYT
August 21, 2018
A federal judge found that Jakiw Palij had falsely claimed in his visa application that he had worked on his father’s farm in Poland and at a German factory during the period when he was actually serving the Nazis at the Trawniki labor camp in occupied Poland.
Source: Time Magazine
August 20, 2018
Here's what his predecessors think.
Source: The Guardian
August 21, 2018 (accessed)
How the 1968 Chicago 'police riot' shocked America and divided the nation.
Source: The Conversation
August 20, 2018
by Antony Kalashnikov
Decades after the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Soviet World War II monuments continue to arouse significant controversy in many former Eastern Bloc countries where they are either being dismantled by law or vandalised by activists.
Source: The Washington Post
August 21, 2018
A crowd toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina on Monday night, with cheers and smoke bombs filling the air.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
August 19, 2018
Using freshly translated documents written by the Spanish conquistadors more than 400 years ago and an array of high-tech equipment, they located what is believed to be the lost city of Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700.
Source: NYT
August 19, 2018
An Illinois nonprofit bearing Abraham Lincoln's name is so deep in debt that it is considering selling some of the 16th president's possessions.
Source: NYT
August 20, 2018
The events that played out 50 years ago in Prague serve as a reminder of the fragility of the systems created to guard against war and tyranny.
Source: NYT
August 17, 2018
His family was deported from Peru to an American wartime internment camp, setting him on a mission to have the wrongs redressed. He died still waiting.
Source: The Washington Post
August 17, 2018
Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown.
Source: NYT
August 17, 2018
At a screening in northern Ohio’s Medina County, it was a hit.
Source: WSJ
August 20, 2018
Renovations in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen add displays that extol Xi, while diluting Deng’s prominence in party lore.
Source: CBC News
August 19, 2018
Relying on now-declassified documents, Annie Jacobsen has written about the U.S. government's decades-long to attempts to use Uri Geller, and others like him, for psychic espionage.
Source: The Washington Post
August 15, 2018
The fighting ended in 1953. These are the reasons the warring parties didn't sign a treaty.
Source: The Washington Post
August 16, 2018
Franklin, then just 24 years old, infused it with a soulful and revolutionary demand, a declaration of independence that was unapologetic, uncompromising and unflinching.
Source: National Security Archive
8/15/18
This was during the Johnson administration.