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 Yorker
6-5-18
The bad ones include Yalta and Vienna.
Source: NYT
6-5-18
To understand how deeply the name Macedonia is embedded in the Greek psyche, look no further than Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki.
Source: NYT
6-5-18
In a letter released on Tuesday, the Treasury Department praised Harriet Tubman, a former slave and abolitionist, but made no commitment on whether she would one day be the face of the $20 bill.
Source: NPR
6-4-18
Authors Bill Clinton and James Patterson spoke to NPR about how realistic the book's plot is and the experience of impeachment.
Source: The Washington Post
6-2-18
President Trump appears prepared to unravel 70 years of painstaking effort that the United States has led to build an international system of trade based on mutually accepted rules and principles.
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
6-4-18
Both years are critical to understanding North Korea’s decision to develop nuclear weapons.
Source: The Washington Post
5-31-18
Enslaved mothers and fathers lived with the constant fear that they or their children might be sold away.
Source: SPLC
6-4-18
Surprise finding: Texas has changed more school names than any other state by far.
Source: Time Magazine
6-4-18
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Chinese military’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 29 years ago.
Source: The Washington Post
6-4-18
But he denies any wrongdoing.
Source: The Conversation
6-1-18
But can it?
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune
6-4-18
Inside the Spanish-language theater in downtown Los Angeles, the terrified crowd watched as uniformed men dragged people outside, beat them and stripped them down to their underwear.
Source: Axios
6-3-18
The exception? George W. Bush after 9-11.
Source: NY Review of Books
6-4-18 (accessed)
by Garry Wills
You can now listen to his 5,000+ interviews with MLK, Dorothy Parker and others.
Source: The Sociable
5-31-18
Now researchers don’t have to read every document to find out what’s in them.
Source: NYT
6-2-18
Rather than sticking with the demand that North Korea disarm immediately, Mr. Trump's opened the door to a prolonged freeze – like Bill Clinton.
Source: NYT
5-31-18
What does that mean?
Source: NYT
6-1-18
Coming after MLK's death, RFK's robbed many blacks and liberals of hope.
Source: Boston Globe
6/1/18
They are not convinced that Sirhan Sirhan killed him.
Source: NPR
5-31-18
"My father's store was destroyed. There was nothing left but one big safe. It was so big they couldn't carry it away, so they had to leave it — in the middle of the rubble."
