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: Foreign Affairs
4/19/2022
by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
"There is nothing the United States can do to prevent China from joining it and Russia as the world’s top nuclear powers, but there are things that U.S. strategists and defense planners can do to mitigate the consequences."
Source: Religion News Services
4/20/2022
by Suhag Shukla
Attributing Indian American criticism of racism to "resentment" of "the west" is rooted in ignorance of the colonial looting of the Indian subcontinent and the experiences of South Asians in general and Hindus in particular in the United States.
Source: The Baffler
4/21/2022
by Daisy Pitkin
On listening to Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth" in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library as librarians perform the kind of social services Carnegie deplored (and try to organize a union, which he deplored more).
Source: Mother Jones
4/18/2022
The EPA will investigate whethe the state of Louisiana granted emissions permits to chemical producers in ways that exposed Black communities to significantly higher cancer risk.
Source: The Atlantic
4/19/2022
by Richard Reeves
Is a campaign of shaming over legacy admissions necessary to shift American norms away from tolerating these policies that reproduce generational privilege?
Source: Washington Post
4/19/2022
Concern about whether the Republicans can adopt a post-Trump conservatism reflects a long history of elite conservatism embracing and mobilizing demagogic populism.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
4/19/2022
by Michael Paul Williams
“They wanted to yank the narrative of Montpelier away from slavery, despite all of their protestations to the contrary,” said board member James French, chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee.
Source: NPR
4/20/2022
The firing of three senior staff members who support the involvement of the Montpelier Descendants Committee in the public presentation of James Madison's estate, and the slavery practiced there, has raised questions about whether Montpelier is committed to historical honesty.
Source: Los Angeles Times
4/19/2022
Bored teens plus a coincidental after-school meeting time plus a statue of Louis Pasteur plus a gig as a Grateful Dead roadie turned out to equal a viral piece of pot culture that is known worldwide today.
Source: The Nation
4/18/2022
Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today.
Source: Washington Post
4/18/2022
Despite the volume of threats to boycott, Disney has seen little damage from previous controversies like the Southern Baptist Convention's 1997 boycott over Ellen DeGeneris, theme park "Gay Days" and health benefits for same-sex partners.
Source: Vice
4/13/2022
Online calls for violence against teachers and school staff suggest that the right's portrayal of LGBTQ adults as inherent threats to children will soon generate a body count.
Source: Washington Post
4/17/2022
"Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries’ governing bodies, rewrite or delete censorship protections, and remove books outside of official challenge procedures."
Source: The American Prospect
4/14/2022
The new cases would address the ability of employers to force employees to attend anti-union meetings, prevent employers who committed unfair labor practices to use delay tactics to avoid recognizing a union, and close a loophole that would allow employers to refuse to recognize unions.
Source: The American Prospect
4/18/2022
The Supreme Court has ruled that police officers have no definitive legal duty to take protective action on behalf of anyone. Would this fact influence debates about funding them if it were more widely known?
Source: Slate
4/16/2022
by Lucas Mann
The campus free speech debate is framed by a fishbowl of the most selective campuses serving a tiny fraction of the student population.
Source: WLBT
4/14/2022
Ray Mabus did not sign a Confederate Heritage Month declaration, a tradition which began with former Governor Kirk Fordice, whom Mabus also called "an overt white supremacist."
Source: Texas Tribune
4/18/2022
Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive.
Source: Iowa Starting Line
4/17/2022
Restrictions on "divisive concepts" are among the legislative developments that make Iowa high school students fear their educations are being treated as a political football.
Source: Politico
4/19/2022
Are the Democrats trying to bridge a cultural chasm between themselves and the mass of voters they hope to persuade? Orwell's writing suggests so.
