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: YouGov
9-9-15
43% of Republicans could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States
Source: Huffington Post
9-12-15
"European states were the architects of the modern refugee regime."
Source: The Tennessean
9-10-15
The amount of time spent on a world history course studying "the world of Islam," and what students are actually learning during that time, has some lawmakers and parents in an uproar and the state planning to review standards.
Source: Independent Journal
9-11-15
This week, IJ returned to the iconic locations of that horrific day, to show what the streets of lower Manhattan look like today, compared to September 11th, 2001.
Source: Time
9-10-15
Several buildings have risen, and more are still under construction
Source: Raw Story
9-10-15
"[T]he Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human."-- Mike Huckabee
Source: Pew Research Center
9-10-15
Since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty 50 years ago, the characteristics of the nation’s poor have changed: A larger share of poor Americans today are in their prime working years and fewer are elderly.
Source: Politico
9-10-15
Now 89, Alexander Butterfield reveals his secrets.
Source: NYT
9-10-15
by James B. Stewart
“The people who know the least about business admire him the most, and those who know the most about business admire him the least.”
Source: The Economist
9-10-15 (accessed)
The roster of antiquities damaged in the war in Yemen runs long.
Source: The Guardian
9-10-15
Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are skeptical of find.
Source: CBS Morning News
9-9-15
One dealer quickly dropped a price for a rare antiquity from $200,000 to $60,000 to get rid of the object quickly.
Source: Huffington Post
9-9-15
The legislation will impact at least two elementary schools in Long Beach and San Diego named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Source: Time
9-8-15
It was exactly 40 years ago that Leonard Matlovich tested the Air Force's ban on gay service members and ended up on Time Magazine’s cover.
Source: AP
9-8-15
She has lived longer than any of her predecessors, seen a dozen prime ministers come and go and presided over six decades of British history - from postwar recovery to the death of Princess Diana and terror attacks on London.
Source: Newsweek
9-7-15
The effort to study these Nazis “constituted a heroic effort on the part of researchers to try to understand the psychopathology of mass killers.”
Source: Newsday
9-7-15
PBS is rerunning the series this week.
Source: NBC News
9-7-15
Scientists believe the estimated 90 enormous stone monoliths or "superhenge" may have been used for religious rites or solstice rituals.
Source: Newsweek
9-6-15
The film is dense with information, and offers a gripping ride through the picket signs and calls for policy reform that defined the 1960s.
Source: Inquirer.net
9-5-15
An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship.
