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
10-5-17
Marine archaeologists announced new findings from their most recent excavation of the roughly 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck.
Source: Slate
10-6-17
Rep. Paul Gosar is pushing conspiracy theories popularized by 9/11 Truther Alex Jones about the August white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville.
Source: Khaosod English
10-6-17
“If someone is charged for criticizing a king who reigned 500 years ago, then something is not normal.”
Source: Pew Research Center
10-5-17
Sharp shifts among Democrats on aid to needy, race, immigration.
Source: USA Today
10-4-17
While historians caution against lumping in Columbus with Confederates who came three centuries later, they say Columbus’ holiday and monuments remain ripe for reassessment — whether they stay, change or vanish entirely.
Source: Newsweek
10-5-17
The cemetery, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., was discovered in the Roman port town of Berenike, established in Ptolemaic Egypt between 285-246 B.C.
Source: NYT
10-5-17
Nationalism has always been a tricky thing for Spain.
Source: The Guardian
10-4-17
Archaeologists say they have found almost fully intact temple and burial grounds of Saint Nicholas in Antalya.
Source: The Washington Post
10-3-17
by David Ignatius
David Ignatius cites numerous times Nixon issued orders his subordinates sabotaged.
Source: The Washington Post
10-4-17
Everywhere he looks, Republican strategist and lobbyist Bruce Mehlman sees “eerie” parallels between the Gilded Age and today.
Source: The Conversation
10-3-17
Because the effects of the chemical are passed from one generation to the next, Agent Orange is now debilitating its third and fourth generation.
Source: National Book Foundation
10-4-17
Winners will be announced at the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 15. The ceremony will be streamed via Facebook Live and also available at our website.
Source: Newsweek
10-4-17
“The Russians have won the race. The entire world is following the satellite’s flight around the Earth,” Communist Party mouthpiece Pravda declared.
Source: The Root
10-3-17
The black website The Root objects that the media are ignoring the long string of incidents in which blacks were slaughtered.
Source: History channel
10-3-17
“There’s a bigger issue here, and that is what it means to tell the truth about history,” says Stephanie Fryberg, a professor of American Indian Studies and Psychology at the University of Washington.
Source: The Atlantic
10-3-17
The miracle of modern genetics has revolutionized the story anthropologists tell about how humans spread out across the Earth.
Source: Vox
10-2-17
It depends on what counts as a mass shooting — and the typical definition leaves out some pretty bad attacks.
Source: NYT
10-1-17
Russia is celebrating the memory of the British K.G.B. spy Kim Philby, a stalwart supporter who stood by it through thick and thin – and spent the last 25 years of his life in Moscow, often drunk and miserable but still loyal.
Source: Indiana University
7-29-17
by Lauren Robel
But classes will no longer be held in the room where the mural appears since at first glance it looks like it’s celebrating the Klan.
Source: Mosaic
10-2-17
In 1937, an official British report first proposed the partition of Mandate Palestine. The story behind it helps to explain why the Arab-Jewish conflict remains unresolved.
