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: WSJ
9-22-17
Per capita, nearly twice as many small-town Americans have died at war since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks compared with those from large metro areas.
Source: Time Magazine
9-22-17
On September 25, 1957, nine African-American students, under the protection of military escorts, walked up the front steps of Central High and into history.
Source: Time Magazine
9-22-17
Quoting Pence: "Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least governs best.’" Thomas Jefferson didn't actually say that.
Source: NYT
9-22-17
A former lawmaker in Belgium convicted of Holocaust denial in 2015 was handed an unusual sentence this week: The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered him to visit one Nazi concentration camp a year for the next five years and write about his experiences.
Source: The Conversation
9-21-17
by Michael Nelson, Eric Plutzer andMichael Berkman
A survey asked Americans what they would do if the Supreme Court started making many unpopular decisions. 44% said the justices should be forced to undergo confirmation every 6 years.
Source: New York Magazine
9-21-17
Lindsey Graham’s bill gives Alaska especially generous treatment, but the Constitution has a uniformity clause that prevents coalitions of states from ganging up on others to impose discriminatory treatment.
Source: NYT
London officials announced in April that they would rectify the omission of women in Parliament Square by placing a statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), who campaigned for women’s right to vote, on the square. Now we can see the statue.
Source: NYT
9-21-17
Calls to remove cemetery monuments are raising questions. Are such monuments really on public display? Should they be treated like the ones in public squares?
Source: BBC
9-19-17
The vessel is thought to have been sunk by a mine.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
9-20-17
It was sold to the LDS church by the break-off sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
9-19-17
by Joyce E. Chaplin, Jason Beckfield and Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors"
Source: WSJ
9-19-17
by Douglas A. Irwin
Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.
Source: Time Magazine
9-19-17
Though Trump used Truman's words to make a nationalism-friendly case that the organization benefits when individual member states look out for themselves, he hasn't always been supportive of the United Nations.
Source: Newsweek
9-15-17
More than 80,000 U.S. military members remain missing in action, according to the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which formed in 2015 following the merger of previous departmental efforts to do such accounting.
Source: The Washington Post
9-19-17
But NAEP gets an F on that score says Sam Wineburg.
Source: NYT
9-19-17
Who killed Alberta Jones, Louisville’s first black prosecutor, in 1965? Prodded by a professor, the police are trying again to find out.
Source: Newsweek
9-18-17
Only about a quarter (26 percent) of Americans can successfully name all three branches of government, with one-third of respondents unable to name a single branch, 27 percent who knew one branch and 13 percent who knew two.
Source: NYT
9-18-17
We've had them before, though not during most of the Cold War; most presidents then thought they would remind people of the USSR.
Source: The Weekly Standard
9-18-17
That's the question facing administrators as students return to campus across the South.
Source: Irish Central
9-17-17
A collage of newspaper ads showcases the evidence that the Irish faced discrimination in the 19th century.
