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
September 22, 2017
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
September 22, 2017
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
September 22, 2017
Quoting Pence: "Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least governs best.’" Thomas Jefferson didn't actually say that.
Source: NYT
September 22, 2017
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
September 21, 2017
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
September 21, 2017
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
September 22, 2017
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
September 21, 2017
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
September 19, 2017
The vessel is thought to have been sunk by a mine.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
September 20, 2017
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
September 19, 2017
by Joyce E. Chaplin, Jason Beckfield and Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors"
Source: WSJ
September 19, 2017
by Douglas A. Irwin
Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.
Source: Time Magazine
September 19, 2017
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
September 15, 2017
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
September 19, 2017
But NAEP gets an F on that score says Sam Wineburg.
Source: NYT
September 19, 2017
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
September 18, 2017
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
September 18, 2017
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
September 18, 2017
That's the question facing administrators as students return to campus across the South.
Source: Irish Central
September 17, 2017
A collage of newspaper ads showcases the evidence that the Irish faced discrimination in the 19th century.