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: Snopes
7-22-16
But some believed it was true.
Source: DiversityInc
7-20-16
Only 18 out of 2,472 delegates in Cleveland are Black, the lowest percentage in over a century.
Source: The Washington Post
7-19-16
by Richard Moe
Bears Ears represents the most important and intact array of unprotected cultural resources on federal land.
Source: Time Magazine
7-20-16
Lessons from 1968
Source: The Washington Post
7-20-16
The GOP congressman says Western civilization is better and Westerners shouldn't apologize for that.
Source: The Washington Post
7-20-16
As an Eastern European who attended school after the fall of communism, she might not.
7-14-16
In an interview with Jon Meacham, Trump said "they could have settled without going to war."
Source: The Washington Times
7-19-16
So says Craig Shirley.
Source: Salon
7-20-16
by Paul Rosenberg
Liberals say it’s factually not true.
Source: The Guardian
7-19-16
Melania Trump, accused of lifting passages from a speech by Michelle Obama, is not the first to face such allegations.
Source: Newsweek
7-19-16
The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.
Source: NYT
7-18-16
On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump was conspicuously trying to conjure somebody else: Richard M. Nixon.
Source: Grammarly
7-18-16 (date accessed)
Less complex language correlates with higher poll results for Republican politicians, while simpler rhetoric corresponds to lower poll results for Democrats.
Source: Salon
7-16-16
Nominating conventions have a often been a venue for chaos, incompetence and embarrassment.
Source: NYT
7-16-16
The divisions caused by the Spanish Civil War, and the decades of dictatorship it ushered in, ending only with Franco’s death in November 1975, continue to ripple through Spain.
Source: NYT
7-14-16
The site is believed to be where Suleiman the Magnificent spent his last night before 50,000 of his Ottoman soldiers sacked a nearby fortress defended by 2,500 Christians led by Miklos Zrinyi, a local Croatian-Hungarian nobleman.
Source: Business Day Live
7-13-16
Germany plans to formally apologise to Windhoek for the genocide of indigenous Namibians a century ago, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday, but added that the move would not carry any obligation of reparations.
Source: Think Progress
7-13-16
The founding fathers did not see the same need to preserve an illusion that the Court is above politics.
Source: NBC News
7-12-16
A textbook on Mexican-American history that some scholars and activists say is poorly written and contains "racist" passages is on a list of proposed books for use in Texas public schools.
Source: dam.gov
7-13-16
The National Museum of Aleppo was attacked in the recent days, by the fall of a large number of missiles and explosive bombs.
