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
June 14, 2005
The problem is that scholars say the great charter settled a fight between a king and his lords. Democracy? Pashaw.
Source: NYT
June 12, 2015
It took a long time for Hillary Rodham Clinton to fully understand the story of her mother’s devastating childhood.
Source: Gawker
June 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal may have been the most audacious person to ever attempt to pass herself off as black, but she certainly was not the first.
Source: citifmonline
June 12, 2015
Adams Bodomo is the Chair professor of African languages and literatures.
Source: NYT
June 11, 2015
Seeking to redress one of the darkest chapters of Spain’s history, the Spanish Parliament on Thursday approved a long-awaited law devised to open the way for citizenship for thousands of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were expelled in 1492.
June 12, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Do the readers of the NYT (Americans by and large) simply not care about Canada's Indians? Or is it that they don't care about Canada?
Source: The New Republic
June 8, 2015
A new MoMA exhibit puts black films front and center
Source: NYT
June 11, 2015
Correspondence from the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written between 1956 and 1961 and estimated to be worth as much as $250,000, will be sold.
Source: NYT
September 10, 2015
The results of two DNA studies indicate that today’s Europeans descend from three groups of people who moved into Europe at different stages of history.
Source: NYT
June 10, 2015
The move comes after the library’s leader, James H. Billington, presided over a series of management and technology failures documented by government watchdog agencies.
Source: The Korea Times
June 8, 2015
The move comes a little over a month after Abe did not apologize for and ignored the issue of wartime sexual slavery in a speech before U.S. Congress, drawing condemnation from South Koreans.
Source: The Atlantic
June 9, 2015
The GOP backs legislation that would make the American Community Survey effectively voluntary.
Source: NYT
June 9, 2015
This week, Belgium decided to circumvent French resistance by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.
Source: Bloomberg
June 8, 2015
“The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic. I was concerned about it when I first heard those words."
Source: Press Release
June 9, 2015
Scourge of War: Waterloo, a Real-time strategic game for PC is the most detailed game about the final battle of the War of the Seventh Coalition. The game boasts 20 historical scenarios (from the French, Prussian and British perspectives).
Source: AP
June 9, 2015
Turkey's Foreign Ministry says the ambassador to Brazil has been recalled after that country's senate passed a resolution recognizing the massacres of Armenians a century ago as genocide.
Source: The Boston Globe
June 7, 2015
The modern human rights movement turns 40
Source: The Washington Post
June 9, 2015
The film, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” is being released this month by The Paragon Agency publishing house, along with an 80-page book of the same name.
Source: Media Matters
June 8, 2015
Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, the state's self-appointed vetter of GOP presidential candidates, recently told members of the League of Women Voters that it should be harder for people to vote, suggesting it be limited to state property owners or people who pass a civics test.
Source: France 24
June 6, 2015
A replica of a French frigate that in 1780 transported General Lafayette to America to rally US rebels battling for independence arrived to great fanfare Friday in the Virginia town where British forces eventually surrendered.
