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: NPR
January 25, 2018
A new report from the National Hurricane Center takes stock of exactly how big, damaging and deadly Hurricane Harvey really was.
Source: NYT
January 25, 2018
The proposed visit to the port of Danang comes amid heightened tensions over China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, including to islands claimed by Vietnam.
Source: New Yorker
January 24, 2018
It's a question people are only now getting around to asking.
Source: NYT
January 25, 2018
“So many people said that it didn’t really happen that way, that we made the story up,” one woman said of the boat that brought her great-great-grandfather to America.
Source: NYT
January 25, 2018
The discovery could rewrite the migration story of our species, pushing back by about 50,000 years when Homo sapiens were thought to have first left Africa.
Source: The Washington Post
January 25, 2018
To call the world nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger — and its immediacy.
Source: Time Magazine
January 23, 2018
Here’s how the mystery was solved.
Source: The Washington Post
January 24, 2018
Navy Rear Adm. Ronny L. Jackson, the lead White House doctor, said on Jan. 16 that President Trump’s “overall health is excellent." So effusive was the report that when “Saturday Night Live” lampooned it, the dialogue required only moderate modifications to get laughs.
Source: NYT
January 24, 2018
“The Death of Stalin,” a blackly comic movie about the Soviet leader and his cowed entourage, has been denounced as a sacrilegious portrayal of those responsible for victory over Fascism. And now it has been pulled from theaters.
Source: National Security Archive
1/24/18
A Freedom of Information request is now resulting in the release of the memos produced by the former Secretary of Defense.
Source: NYT
January 24, 2018
In the first of what will become a regular series of videos exploring big questions and ideas about the world, the New York Times explains what we know about democracy’s troubles, what’s causing them and where it leads.
Source: The Washington Post
January 22, 2018
Fairfax described his protest as a “personal decision” based, in part, on his family history.
Source: The Times of Israel
January 20, 2018
UK's Channel 4 to air documentary featuring long-lost tapes describing how a Jewish group sought to exact revenge for the murder of 6 million.
Source: Fox News
January 22, 2018
A half-century after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the very states that clung to racial segregation are now coming together to expand people’s knowledge on the Civil Rights Movement.
Source: The Conversation
January 22, 2018
by Joseph J. Fins
Both Democrats and Republicans agreed that should Nixon be forced out while the veep slot was open (Spiro Agnew had resigned) a Republican should succeed him even though Democrat House Speaker Carl Albert was next in line.
Source: The Conversation
January 17, 2018
Looking back, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair heralded a sea change in political discourse by normalizing public discussion of sex acts.
Source: The Hill
January 19, 2018
One year ago Saturday, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, kicking off an unpredictable year.
Source: PBS
January 19, 2018
Going all the way back to the nation’s founding, there are few cases like Romney’s, where a major party presidential nominee with no prior experience in Congress later ran for a seat in the House or Senate.
Source: The Daily Beast
January 20, 2018
President Trump isn’t be the first politically powerful man to be ribbed by the public for his weight.
Source: Time Magazine
January 16, 2018
It offers in sights into the psychology of a nation under the shadow of nuclear doom.
