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: NYT
1-7-16
Newly released documents offer a fresh look at Bill Clinton’s later years in the White House, including transcribed phone calls and meetings with Tony Blair, the British prime minister.
Source: Time Magazine
1-7-16
The U.K. Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has released the transcripts of two phone callsbetween former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the late leader of Libya, in which Blair delicately tries to get Gaddafi give up power.
Source: NYT
1-8-16
Scholars and historians spent three years preparing a 2,000-page edition with about 3,500 annotations in anticipation of the work entering the public domain.
Source: Time Magazine
1-6-16
It was 75 years ago, on Jan. 6, 1941, that President Franklin Roosevelt stood to deliver the "Four Freedoms" State of the Union address. Nearly three quarters of a century later, a poll released in December found that Americans are more fearful of terrorism than at any point since Sept. 11, 2001.
Source: NYT
1-5-16
Understanding the dispute in Oregon requires a look at American history, and how geography, climate and politics shaped “the frontier.”
Source: NYT
1-4-16
For decades, a quarry provided sand used for water filtration. Now it’s lush with fossil discoveries and opened annually to the public.
Source: Vox
1-5-16
One of the militia's core grievances does seem to resonate with many people in eastern Oregon. Specifically, they're upset with the way the federal government manages the land it owns around the state. And it owns a lot.
Source: FOX News
1-5-16
Alfred Street Baptist Church, a historically black congregation in Alexandria that traces its history back to the early 1800s, has announced their donation for the educational institute.
Source: Newsweek
1-4-16
The takeover of a federal facility in rural Oregon by well-armed, self-styled militia members poses a huge challenge to U.S. law enforcement and raises the spectre of past standoffs that have led to disastrous loss of lives.
Source: New Historian
1-4-16
Ziony Zevit, a renowned professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages from the American University in California, is making the claim that an early mistranslation of Hebrew has resulted in an inaccurate creation story.
Source: The Authors Guild
12-31-15
At stake, the Guild claims, is the right of authors to determine what becomes of their works in the digital age.
Source: NYT
1-3-15
A plaster sculpture of the 16th president’s hand, proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee County Museum, has been missing from its shelf since at least Dec. 11.
Source: NYT
1-1-16
A magician named Belinda Sinclair offers visitors performances that weave in lessons on the women who held séances in the area a century ago.
Source: NYT
1-2-16
Archaeologists have made a discovery they hope could help unravel one of the most tenacious mysteries of ancient Peru: how to read the knotted string records, known as khipus, kept by the Incas.
Source: The Daily Beast
1-3-16
A silver scroll found in Jordan is a reminder of how big the market for ‘magic’ objects was in ancient Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
Source: Military.com
1-1-16
"These women have been fighting this battle, off and on, for over 50 years now."
Source: NYT
1-2-16
Mr. Trump, whose appeal is predicated on an aura of toughness and perpetual success, seldom speaks of his brother Freddy, who died as an alcoholic in 1981 at age 43.
Source: NYT
1-1-16
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who seeks to imbue his largely ceremonial office with sweeping powers, had cited Hitler when asked whether a strong presidency was possible in Turkey.
Source: NYT
A special classification once marked restricted materials, like pulp novels warning of “beatniks perverts” or William Faulkner’s secret drawings of sex with his mistress.
Source: Los Angeles Times
12-31-15
Exxon and other oil giants made a strategic decision in the late 1980s to publicly emphasize doubt and uncertainty regarding climate change science even as their internal research embraced the growing scientific consensus -- and they spent millions to guard against the risk.
