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: National Review
8-11-17
The school recently decided to cover up a musket held by a Puritan that’s aimed at the head of an Indian.
Source: Smithsonian
8-9-17
For design ideas and funding, the National Museum of the American Indian turns to its community.
Source: CNN
8-8-17
"A lot of minority communities still feel that research involves being a guinea pig. Nobody wants to be used. Nobody wants to be a guinea pig."
Source: NYT
8-10-17
Researchers have found a zigzag pattern on a human arm bone that might have been engraved as part of a cannibalistic funeral ritual 15,000 years ago.
Source: Newsweek
8-12-17
Long a haven for racists – it was the last town in America to desegregate schools following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education – Charlottesville turned liberal and this spring voted to remove a Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee.
Source: NYT
8-11-17
The debate over the statue began about a year and a half ago, when an African-American high school student here started a petition to have it removed.
Source: Time Magazine
8-9-17
Despite the rhetorical similarities between the "rain of ruin" and the "fire and fury," presidential historians like Michael Beschloss say Trump's language has been unusually harsh considering the context.
Source: KAGS
8-8-17
What visitors learn at an exhibit at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul.
Source: Politico
8-9-17
The peninsula has a long record of risky games with great powers.
Source: NYT
8-10-17
The standoff with North Korea is dangerous, but not without precedent. The United States encountered a similar situation with China in the 1960s.
Source: NYT
8-8-17
But some object that they’re too pretty.
Source: The Washington Post
8-8-17
The definitive answer is no. Here's the analysis.
Source: The Washington Post
8-9-17
by Benjamin R. Young
Few Americans will recall the 1983 invasion of Grenada.
Source: Fox News
8-9-17
The U.S. Army denied requests from several New York Democrats to rename streets on the city's Fort Hamilton military installation.
Source: National Security Archive
8-8-17
Just-Declassified Documents Were Withheld from Foreign Relations of the United States Volume on Iran Coup Published in 2017.
Source: The New Yorker
8-7-17
In the age of Trump, the Agnew case, with its history of lies, greed, kickbacks, and the self-regard of its central actor, might seem the better predictor of what could come next.
Source: Newsweek
8-8-17
By an 1855 treaty the Kuril Islands belong to Japan. But after the USSR conquered them in WW2 Russia's had them. It's still a bone of contention between the two countries.
Source: NYT
8-8-17
“It’s hard to think of a president using more extreme language during crisis like this before,” said Michael Beschloss.
Source: The Washington Post
8-7-17
Here’s how other countries do redistricting.
Source: AP
8-2-17
The Polish parliament's research office is preparing an analysis of whether Poland can legally make the claim and will have it ready by Aug. 11, said Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a lawmaker with the ruling Law and Justice party who requested the report.
