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: AJC.com
8-6-18
Wesleyan College officials announced they are abolishing Wesleyan’s use of its four class names over concerns they link directly back to the most menacing parts of the institution’s history.
Source: The Hill
8-7-18
President Trump first used the characterization for the news media in a tweet less than a month into his term, proclaiming that various media outlets are “not my enemy," but the "enemy of the American People!”
Source: NPR
8-5-18
In many cases, they remain hidden in storage while municipalities decide their fate.
Source: CNN
8-7-18
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a "traditional exercise" of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional, as he defended the controversial practice of signing statements prevalent in George W. Bush's White House.
Source: Smithsonian
8-6-18
The monument features 12 bronze statues and a wall etched with 400 additional names of women who played an important role in shaping Virginia’s history.
Source: CNN
8-6-18
He argued that morality and integrity to the office of the presidency were vital.
Source: NYT
8-5-18
The act of vandalism occurred months after Romania’s Parliament passed a law in June to prevent and combat episodes of anti-Semitism.
Source: The Washington Post
8-4-18
106 years later, the pro-Trump online conspiracy-theory group QAnon has made Morgan the villain of a wildly implausible story.
Source: Newsweek
8-6-18
As of March 2017, more than 160,000 hibakusha, the Japanese name for atomic bomb survivors, were still alive.
Source: Political Research Associates
8/6/18 (date accessed)
by Margaret Power
Here's what a historian found when she began interviewing them.
Source: The Washington Post
8-5-18
At the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days since installation for a replacement sign to be pierced by gunfire. Again.
Source: Salon
8-6-18
by Chauncey DeVega
"I do think there's certainly a very strong possibility that it's not going to end well”
Source: NYT
8-2-18
Amazon removed items sold on its site by other retailers, including a baby onesie and Nazi patches, after nonprofits and lawmakers called attention to them.
Source: NBC News
"If we’re not doing it, if we’re not going to do it, I don’t think anyone else will.”
Source: Time Magazine
8-2-18
Here are 5 companies that did it earlier.
Source: The Hill
8-2-18
"You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s ... and you look at it compared to the DNC platform of today, you're saying, 'Man, those things are awfully similar' to a point where it's actually scary."
Source: Time Magazine
8-1-18
Though an 3D-printed plastic “Liberator” may sound like something out of a futuristic story, its name has a long history.
Source: The Washington Post
8-2-18
They couldn’t top Teddy Roosevelt’s, anyway.
Source: The Washington Post
7-31-18
Are we all at peace with that?
Source: The Washington Post
8-1-18
The films were donated last year by the family of Marguerite A. “Missy” LeHand, a largely forgotten figure who was FDR’s longtime aide, rumored lover and the woman behind the camera in many of the shots.
