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
1-25-18
A new report from the National Hurricane Center takes stock of exactly how big, damaging and deadly Hurricane Harvey really was.
Source: NYT
1-25-18
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
1-24-18
It's a question people are only now getting around to asking.
Source: NYT
1-25-18
“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
1-25-18
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
1-25-18
To call the world nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger — and its immediacy.
Source: Time Magazine
1-23-18
Here’s how the mystery was solved.
Source: The Washington Post
1-24-18
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
1-24-18
“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
1-24-18
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
1-22-18
Fairfax described his protest as a “personal decision” based, in part, on his family history.
Source: The Times of Israel
1-20-18
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
1-22-18
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
1-22-18
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
1-17-18
Looking back, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair heralded a sea change in political discourse by normalizing public discussion of sex acts.
Source: The Hill
1-19-18
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
1-19-18
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
1-20-18
President Trump isn’t be the first politically powerful man to be ribbed by the public for his weight.
Source: Time Magazine
1-16-18
It offers in sights into the psychology of a nation under the shadow of nuclear doom.
