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: Vox
6-26-18
He also knew calls for “civility” often serve to enforce the status quo.
Source: The Washington Post
6-26-18
A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” – and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
Source: Politico
6-26-18
Congress’ recent tax and spending laws — along with ballooning costs of government programs have jacked up federal spending in President Donald Trump’s first term.
Source: Time Magazine
6-26-18
The decision explicitly renounced the Korematsu decision.
Source: NYT
6-26-18
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
Source: NYT
6-26-18
Instead of returning the statue to its original glory, the so-called restoration left St. George looking more like a childish model of a cartoon character than a precious piece of art.
Source: The Washington Post
6-23-18
The waiter died. The congressman was acquitted.
Source: The Washington Post
6-25-18
In one troublesome sentence she had written of the west: “there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”
Source: Rudaw
6-21-18
Many old Islamic, Jewish, and Christian historical sites were damaged.
Source: CNN
6-22-18
42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Source: The Center for Michigan
6-12-18
References to gay rights, Roe v. Wade, climate change and “core democratic values” have been stripped from Michigan’s new proposed social studies standards.
Source: Pew Research Center
6-18-18
The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements.
Source: The Cook Political Report
6-21-18
For, one, Trump’s job approval rating in the Gallup survey is 45 percent, eight points higher than the dismal 37 percent where George W. Bush was sitting at this point in 2006.
Source: AP
6-22-18
Have America’s protests changed so they rely more on the masses and less on one captivating leader? The answer, some experts say, is yes.
Source: Raw Story
6-21-18
Of course, no president serviced 16 years. No one in his circle has corrected him.
Source: Fox23
6-22-18
Here are 3 heartbreaking examples from history.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6-21-18
From the moment the Department of Education was born, critics — Republicans, almost exclusively — have sought to dismantle it.
Source: Smithsonian
6-21-18
A new initiative titled She Built NYC is asking New Yorkers to recommend potential subjects for the monument.
Source: NYT
6-19-18
Charleston, the South Carolina port city where about 40 percent of enslaved Africans who were brought to North America landed after being taken from their homelands, has become the latest city to apologize for its role in the slave trade.
Source: NPR
With his policy of "America First," President Trump has a very different take on this complex web of treaties and alliances set up and shaped by the U.S. over the past seven decades.
