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: Politico
5-22-18
Trump’s allegations about FBI surveillance may be baseless. But it actually happened to Barry Goldwater.
Source: NYT
5-23-18
There are several potential outcomes while Mr. Trump is president.
Source: Newsweek
5-23-18
“If you look at the policies of Donald Trump, OK, anybody—Martin Luther King would be proud of him and what he's done for the black and hispanic community for jobs.”
Source: WSJ
5-22-18
Case in point: This op ed in the Wall Street Journal, which notes that North Korea offered to return the ship in 2005 for high-level talks.
Source: The Conversation
5-23-18
by Alan Marcus
The reason is that we will soon not be able to rely on witness testimonies.
Source: The Conversation
5-22-18
by Barry Godfrey and Steven Soper
A study of nearly 25,000 prison register entries shows how connections between race and imprisonment started in the 1860s.
Source: The Washington Post
5-20-18
The same year that 16,899 U.S. soldiers died at the peak of the Vietnam War.
Source: Newsweek
5-21-18
A new study has dashed all the conspiracy theories, whether mundane or bizarre.
Source: The Boston Globe
5-20-18
The award, established by members of the Kennedy family to honor JFK after his 1963 assassination, recognizes and celebrates “the quality of political courage that he admired most,” according to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Source: CNN
5-18-18
Trump shares the term "witch hunt" with Richard Nixon, who was reported to have used it about Watergate hearings.
Source: Slate
5-18-18
Black Mormons wish it was real.
Source: NYT
5-18-18
The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats' objections.
Source: NYT
5-17-18
Watergate has long been the touchstone for modern American scandal, the mountain of misconduct against which all others are judged.
Source: The New Yorker
5-18-18
Fox News’s Bret Baier wants you to think he just might be.
Source: Time Magazine
5-17-18
Protests called for a formal promise from the city and the foundation that South Siders will not be hurt by the project.
Source: NYT
5-17-18
The upheaval of 50 years ago is hardly history at the movies — from zombies to concerns about male-dominated Hollywood, what happened continues to reverberate.
Source: History channel
5-16-18
The president was Andrew Johnson. The Senate declined to convict him.
Source: The Aspen Institute
5-16-18
The project was created to teach Americans how to avoid papering over their differences and instead argue better.
Source: NYT
5-16-18
The Dutch art dealer Jan Six says that he has discovered a new Rembrandt, a portrait of an unidentified young man that he purchased at a Christie’s auction in London.
Source: NYT
5-16-18
Kim doesn't want a deal like Qaddafi got given what happened to him.