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 Republic
9/1/2022
The think tank was founded to counter what its leaders saw as a bipartisan alliance of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists that pushed the United States toward military intervention as the solution to foreign policy problems. How will the Ukraine war affect its credibility in policy circles?
Source: Slate
8/31/2022
by Dennis Aftergut and Philip Allen Lacovara
A narrow indictment focused on charges related to the improper keeping of documents, delivered immediately after the November midterms is the only chance to prosecute Trump between elections and strike a blow for accountability.
Source: The New Yorker
8/28/2022
"Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the countercultural protests and the antiwar activism of the nineteen-sixties and seventies. Others were shaped by their aversion to those movements. Justice Samuel Alito belongs to the latter category."
Source: Salon
8/25/2022
by Matthew Rozsa
A new study finds a strong county-level correlation between the number of slaves owned before the Civil War and the number of guns owned today. Is the answer in the violent history of white supremacy in the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras?
Source: Washington Post
8/30/2022
Anthony Cavo's collection of photographs shows the changing relationships of people and their pets, as well as the changing technology of photography.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/2022
The civil servants working to preserve and secure government records have faced threats and harassment since the National Archives brought the FBI into its efforts to get the former president to comply with the law and return public documents.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/2022
The 1964 campaign against Jim Crown in St. Augustine, waged as the Civil Rights Act was being filibustered in the Senate, remains an understudied battle in the movement. Many surviving women activists are keepers of knowledge about this phase of the freedom struggle.
Source: KCCI
8/26/2022
"You really start to say, 'Well, can I teach about these topics at all? Can I —if a student brings it up — do I feel comfortable addressing that in class'?"
Source: PEN America
8/17/2022
by Jeremy C. Young and Jonathan Friedman
"The restrictions and chilling effects of gag order laws threaten to destroy the climate of open inquiry required in free and democratic educational institutions."
Source: Texas Tribune
8/17/2022
Texas's pre-Roe abortion ban has been dated to 1925 when the state recodified its criminal code, but the original statute dates to 1857.
Source: Washington Post
8/17/2022
In many states, school librarians will be less free to recommend books, and students less free to explore them, with potentially serious consequences for educational quality and personal and intellectual growth, experts argue.
Source: Mother Jones
8/24/2022
Brian Lamb saw the Black Power advocate speak in a church in the 1960s, and then saw the news media distort his speech. This experience led to CSPAN, the anti-sound bite contribution to public discourse.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
8/24/2022
The framers of the state's voting laws were explicit in their intention to use the law to strip as many Black men of their right to vote as possible. A federal court recently ruled that the law, amended with nominally color-blind language, is acceptable.
Source: NPR
8/21/2022
The recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient lived by the motto of working "to destroy everything segregated I could find."
Source: The New Republic
8/23/2022
Beneath broadly held notions of Christian nationalism lies a distinct theology. If you hear "spiritual warfare" in political speech, you're hearing the New Apostolic Reformation—though its adherents are secretive about it.
Source: The Atlantic
8/16/2022
Investigations of the origins of the wild horses of the mid-Atlantic coast remain inconclusive with respect to the horses, but they do demonstrate the human capacity to invest in a romantic narrative.
Source: Sapiens
8/23/2022
Heartland imagery depends on images of white individuals and families obscure the forces of migration and industrialization that shaped the region and reinforce an image of rural whites as ideal citizens, argue two anthropologists.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
8/17/2022
Blaming distraction—by drivers, pedestrians or cyclists—for climbing road fatalities is a cop-out, says Jennifer Boyd. Americans need to be willing to question the basic design of roads and the priority they give to moving cars fast if they are serious about reducing road deaths.
Source: ACLU Florida
8/18/2022
" The bill specifically targets and places vague restrictions on educators’ ability to teach and discuss concepts pertaining to systemic inequalities, including the legacy of slavery in America, white privilege, and anti-racism."
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
8/16/2022
“It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”
