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 New Republic
10/12/2022
by Ilana Cohen and Michael E. Mann
A student movement is realizing its first successes in convincing university administrators to refuse donations that, activists argue, inevitably compromise the integrity of university research on climate change.
Source: NPR
10/14/2022
Artists and scholars debate the value of confronting historical discomfort against claims that images of violence are traumatizing. Historian Amna Khalid weighs in.
Source: Vanity Fair
10/14/2022
Sam Francis's 1990s writings have been hailed as a model of the angry white working class politics of Trumpism, but a critic notes that this obscures the deep current of white supremacy that runs through his thinking. Conservatives once pushed Francis out of their movement; is MAGA bringing him back in?
Source: National Catholic Reporter
10/17/2022
At one recent conference, a new conservative agenda based on an overtly religious set of moral restrictions, pronatalist public policy, opposition to globalization and attacks on "woke" was discussed.
Source: Associated Press
10/16/2022
Waste from weapons production was dumped into streams near an airport and still contaminates a suburban elementary school.
Source: Politico
10/16/2022
Many conservative politicians have attacked universities to win votes. But close observers of higher ed in Florida say Governor Ron DeSantis is making real and consequential institutional changes that may establish more political control over colleges in the state.
Source: Washington Post
10/16/2022
The State Department's official history of US-Soviet relations includes a military intelligence officer's recollection of a 1983 exercise that nearly triggered nuclear war. Why has the government pulled that official history and restricted the original memo?
Source: Washington Post
10/13/2022
by Gillian Brockell
While a Congressional subpoena delivered to a president is unusual, it's not unprecedented. But the past is little guide to how Donald Trump will respond to a call to appear before the January 6th committee.
Source: NPR
10/17/2022
Residents of US territories are able to receive birthright citizenship if an act of Congress grants it to them. While Congress's refusal to do so for residents of American Samoa has clear racist roots, the Court declined to hear a case challenging this exclusion.
Source: New York Times
10/11/2022
Kriegel's writings about his experiences after contracting polio stripped away sentimentality and pity from the literary stereotype of the disabled in favor of a full and often conflicted picture of his own humanity as a disabled person.
Source: New York Times
10/11/2022
The utility of bombing civilian centers has been overrated, and the strength of the backlash such bombing creates underestimated, by military strategists.
Source: The Baffler
10/12/2022
by Daniel Luban
The recently deceased political theorist's life helps to explain how a cast of conservative power brokers could move from the War on Terror neoconservatism to the Tea Party to Trumpism.
Source: The New Republic
10/12/2022
Daniel Foote resigned as a Special Envoy for Haiti in 2021, and warns that a foreign intervention, if it is seen as propping up the government of Ariel Henry, will be so unpopular it will spark mass violence.
Source: Jacobin
10/6/2022
by Alan Wald
Blacklisted from American academe after defying a HUAC investigation at the University of Michigan, the mathematician (and the spouse of historian Natalie Zemon Davis) continued to teach and work as an activist in Canada until his recent death at 96.
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/11/2022
Among the period-correct details establishing the provenance of the pants was an inner tag proclaiming the garments were made with only "white labor" in the era of Chinese exclusion.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/11/2022
by Emma Pettit
Florida legislators convened an investigative committee in the late 1950s to root out faculty whose political or sexual lives were deemed "subversive." One college president stood aside, and another fought back in public.
Source: Philadelphia Voice
10/6/2022
University of Pennsylvania Dermatology professor Albert Kligman tested medicines and other products on prison inmates between 1951 and 1974.
Source: New York Times
10/7/2022
The Nobel committee gave an implicit rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in honoring the organization, which was shut down as a "terrorist" group last year, forcing some leaders into exile.
Source: The Nation
There are substantial harms involved in maintaining a nuclear arsenal that fall on the poor and people of color whether or not a nuclear warhead is ever detonated. The review of the United States' nuclear policy should incorporate these harms, say two advocates for arms reduction and abolition.
Source: Dissent
10/10/2022
by Aziz Rana
The thoroughness of racial segregation through the housing markets is a profound obstacle to the kind of interracial political organizing the left wants to accomplish.
