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: NYT
12-28-17
Mr. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.
Source: Reuters
12-29-17
Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling.
Source: The Washington Post
12-28-17
by Newton N. Minow
Nixon withdrew the think tank’s security clearance.
Source: Slate
12-27-17
Instead, it will then begin to “acquire tweets on a selective basis.”
Source: NYT
12-27-17
The conclusions threaten the 2015 agreement over so-called comfort women, forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military from the 1930s until 1945.
Source: NYT
12-27-17
The history of pleasures and frightened silences buried in photo albums.
Source: History channel
12-27-17
As the crowd counted down the final fleeting seconds of 1907, workers used ropes and pulleys to slowly lower the 700-pound ball down the flagpole crowning New York’s second-tallest building.
Source: WSJ
12-28-17
Administration’s 34% first-year turnover rate is twice that of Reagan’s 17% in 1981—the next-highest in the past 40 years
Source: The Los Angeles Times
12-27-17
An analysis by GovTrack, a website that tracks bills in Congress, shows that Trump has signed the fewest bills into law at this point than any president in more than 60 years, back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Source: NYT
12-26-17
Reagan’s tax cuts helped the richest Americans, those in the highest 1 percent of the income distribution.
Source: The Daily Beast
12-27-17
The document is from the Cold War. But the material it teaches is still being used today by Vladimir Putin’s clandestine cadres.
Source: Fox News
12/26/17
Fox News says it's controversial to speculate about the sexual preference of famous Americans from the past.
Source: NYT
12-26-17
Mr. Huckabee had just watched “Darkest Hour,” a film about Churchill. It was, he wrote on Twitter, a reminder of “what real leadership looks like.”
Source: CNN
12-25-17
Last year, Mélisande Short-Colomb learned about her ancestors' ties to the university when she was contacted by a genealogist tracing the descendants of slaves that Jesuits at Georgetown owned almost two centuries ago.
Source: NYT
12-25-17
A political art group built a replica of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in Bornhagen, Germany. Next door is the home of Björn Höcke, a far-right politician who called the memorial “a monument of shame.”
Source: The Washington Post
12-22-17
For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential “challenge coin” has undergone a Trumpian transformation.
Source: NYT
12-22-17
There was no Twitter to fan the flames when W.E.B. Du Bois sparred with Booker T. Washington and Malcolm X argued with Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: NYT
12-23-17
Over its 24-year life, the tribunal indicted 161 people, heard from nearly 5,000 witnesses and met for 10,800 trial days.
Source: Religion News Service
12-21-17
Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors.
Source: The Washington Post
12-21-17
by Carlos Lozada
Histories of past presidential scandals reveal common threads and turning points -- but also show how Trump stands alone.
