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: Washington Post
4/18/2022
If Dylan himself has always been ambivalent about his Iron Range roots, there is still much to learn about the artist and the nation from a visit.
Source: The Baffler
4/18/2022
by Evan Malmgren
"Inland America is pocked with the unmarked graves of communitarian utopias—primitive socialist and communist experiments—that tried to rebuild the world on what was assumed to be virgin soil."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/8/2022
Legislators have challenged the board's handling of a presidential search and the campus budget, among other concerns.
Source: NBCUniversal
4/14/2022
"Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face.
Source: The Atlantic
4/14/2022
by Adam Serwer
"Amazon’s defeat is also notable for another reason: the victory of a diverse group of workers against a mighty corporation that has presented itself as racially egalitarian."
Source: The Atlantic
4/14/2022
Can studying past crime panics help cities convince riders to use mass transit systems when fear of crime is on the rise?
Source: The Atlantic
4/13/2022
"Jews will begin celebrating this holiday, which commemorates the exodus of the enslaved Israelites from ancient Egypt, on Friday night. In the Hebrew Bible, this festival is called “Pesach.” In English, it is known as “Passover.” But what if that’s a mistake?"
Source: The Atlantic
4/7/2022
"Obbie is of the opinion that if something needs to get done, especially something as important as ensuring that the legacy of your community and family doesn’t get erased, you’d better first employ yourself to do something about it."
Source: Los Angeles Times
4/12/2022
"In its 1980s heyday, SST released at least a dozen canonical rock albums that were notable for their rejection of convention."
Source: The Atlantic
4/12/2022
"They are royal but not royal, monarchs without thrones, caught between the past and the future. A surprising number of them have gone into politics. What do their countries want from them?"
Source: London Review of Books
4/7/2022
Journalist Chris Mullin discusses the saga of wrongful conviction, eventual exoneration, and delayed justice for the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, and argues he is being scapegoated for the whole mess because he won't identify a source who was involved.
Source: Washington Post
4/10/2022
At least four teachers have recently been turned in by parents or students for opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, part of a campaign of identifying and targeting alleged traitors for retaliation.
Source: Reuters
4/7/2022
PEN found that 86 school districts had removed 1,145 titles from their shelves over the last nine months, some permanently and others while an investigation was under way.
Source: Scientific American
4/8/2022
Inherent features of nuclear weapons command and control systems make mistakes inevitable and difficult to reverse; the long history of close calls with accidental nuclear war show the need for disarmament.
Source: Washington Post
4/6/2022
by Gillian Brockell
"Jackson not only supported the Nuremberg defendants’ right to counsel, he was a key part of the governing body that enshrined it into international law."
Source: The New Republic
4/6/2022
A new book argues that the use of the word "accident" normalizes injury and death caused by failures of regulation and unequal distribution of vulnerability in society.
Source: The Atlantic
4/7/2022
"The failure of Russian democracy, and its turn to revanchism, was not catalyzed in Brussels at NATO headquarters. It was decided in Moscow by Putin."
Source: Smithsonian
4/8/2022
"Racism operates in really any environment, and shows up in the hospital. Health care is not immune from the injustices that pervade society more broadly, including racism."
Source: Jacobin
4/5/2022
Libraries are just one example of vital community institutions decimated by austerity politics and culture war battles; Emily Drabinksy says enough is enough.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
4/7/2022
Did some statements made by Republicans echo Senator James Eastland's questioning whether Thurgood Marshall was "prejudiced against the white people of the South"?
