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: The Los Angeles Times
September 15, 2017
The Assembly passed a resolution 41 to 5 to denounce comments by the president that seemed to equate white supremacists and neo-Nazis with the protesters demonstrating against them.
Source: Ars Technica
September 14, 2017
Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 14, 2017
A Native American group argues that a plot of land owned by the university is theirs by ancestral right. Scholars of indigenous studies at Brown cast doubt on the claim.
Source: NYT
September 15, 2017
It’s long been derided as myth, but the story keeps popping up.
Source: The Guardian
September 13, 2017
Weapon used in 1940 assassination to go on display next year – but why did Ramón Mercader, armed with a gun and a dagger, resort to the ice pick?
Source: ynetnews.com
September 13, 2017
Study book for eight graders shows the Israeli flag instead of the Palestinian one on a map of the Middle East, causing the Education Ministry in the country to order the removal of the controversial page from the book and bar it from further distribution while it investigates the matter.
Source: Star Tribune
September 14, 2017
A committee was launched in response to a stunning new exhibit.
Source: NYT
September 15, 2017
It’s a worldwide phenomenon.
Source: Vanity Fair
September 12, 2017
“Bannon sees the Pepes as kind of like trolls, and not like the Nazis like Richard Spencer and David Duke,” said one person who spoke to Bannon. “Everybody’s kind of struggling with it.”
Source: The Conversation
September 13, 2017
by Richard Lachmann
Today the media often tell the stories of individual soldiers. In Vietnam they rarely did.
Source: UVA Center for Politics
September 14, 2017
Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 13, 2017
The protest occurred on the one-month anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
September 12, 2017
Other vestiges of the school’s Confederate ties — such as battle flags, the playing of “Dixie” and cadet salutes to a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson — already have been phased out.
Source: The Washington Post
September 13, 2017
Hundreds of Washington insiders gathered last night in the Kennedy Center Opera House for an advance screening of Ken Burns's new documentary on Vietnam.
Source: The Guardian
September 13, 2017
Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning, yet the fear-mongering persists. Don’t blame Donald Trump – blame America’s democratic model.
Source: NYT
September 10, 2017
“It’s really saving New York history. We are the custodians of this history.”
Source: Snopes
September 11, 2017
The meme omits context and cites a dubious claim about Lee.
Source: NPR
September 11, 2017
In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Bannon said, "Economic nationalism is what this country was built on."
Source: Pew Research Center
September 11, 2017
They don’t know much and don’t care to learn.
Source: Salon
September 10, 2017
The disappearing file feeds suspicions about the agency and the accused assassin.
