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 New Yorker
6-12-17
by Robin Wright
A first person account.
Source: The Washington Post
6-12-17
The fight against civil rights brought it back.
Source: NYT
6-13-17
Few countries have ever grown from client state to regional power. Qatar managed it in just a few years.
Source: Bloomberg
6-12-17
by Timothy L. O'Brien
"Trump sued me, then had to acknowledge 30 times during a deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues."
Source: USA Today
6-12-17
Twelve states already have adopted the group’s call, and its leaders hope to add 10 to 15 next year. A separate effort demanding a convention to consider a balanced budget amendment already has the support of 27 states.
Source: The Daily Beast
6-12-17
But when they showed up they found out otherwise.
Source: The Conversation
6-8-17
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone.
Source: NYT
6-11-17
He’s got media allies. Nixon didn’t.
Source: Fredericksburg.com
6-10-17
The interior of a circular Virginia Mist granite memorial at the University of Virginia will bear the names of nearly 1,000 enslaved workers from between 1817 and 1865.
Source: CNN
6-8-17
It's a line that Henry II, the king of England, has been quoted historically as uttering in 1170 during a years-long feud with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Source: The Conversation
6-9-17
Lessons from the last time the US added a star to its flag.
Source: MPR News
6-9-17
But many in Minnesota haven’t heard of what happened to the Mankato.
Source: The Washington Post
6-10-17
In a 70-page legal brief responding to a liberal watchdog group’s lawsuit, the administration said that market-rate payments for goods or services made to the president’s real estate, hotel and golf companies do not constitute emoluments as defined by the Constitution.
Source: ABC New (Australia)
6-10-17
In the early 1960s Washington was a city on edge and the threat of a nuclear attack was not far from the minds of the powerful.
Source: National Security Archive
6-8-17
Japan’s long-standing aspirations to develop a "plutonium economy" troubled U.S. officials going back decades as early as the Jimmy Carter administration.
Source: The Times of London
6-5-17
One of the most acerbic diarists of his generation has revealed that he excised references to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s racial prejudices.
Source: The State
6-7-17
Furman University has established a task force, The Task Force on Slavery and Justice, that will help Furman and the larger community understand the role slaves may have played in the university's early history.
Source: NYT
6-7-17
Newly discovered fossils indicate Homo sapiens were present in Africa 300,000 years ago, scientists reported. Until now, the earliest evidence dated back just 195,000 years.
Source: The American Scholar
5-7-17 (accessed)
by Cathy Otten
A first-person account shows it’s a legacy in ruins.
Source: Time Magazine
6-4-17
For the 28th year in succession, a sea of light illuminated Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 in commemoration of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
