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
6-14-05
The problem is that scholars say the great charter settled a fight between a king and his lords. Democracy? Pashaw.
Source: NYT
6-12-15
It took a long time for Hillary Rodham Clinton to fully understand the story of her mother’s devastating childhood.
Source: Gawker
6-12-15
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
Adams Bodomo is the Chair professor of African languages and literatures.
Source: NYT
6-11-15
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.
6-12-15
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
6-8-15
A new MoMA exhibit puts black films front and center
Source: NYT
6-11-15
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
9-10-15
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
6-10-15
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
6-8-15
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
6-9-15
The GOP backs legislation that would make the American Community Survey effectively voluntary.
Source: NYT
6-9-15
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
6-8-15
“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
6-9-15
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
6-9-15
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
6-7-15
The modern human rights movement turns 40
Source: The Washington Post
6-9-15
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
6-8-15
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
6-6-15
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.
