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
4/5/2022
by Donald Moynihan
"QAnon, a sprawling set of baseless conspiracy claims, is built on nods and winks, which has allowed it to move from the fringes to the center of American politics without toppling the mainstream conservative politicians who are courting its adherents."
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/5/2022
One of the notebooks contains the naturalist’s “Tree of Life” sketch from 1837, which sought to map out evolution and the relationship between species. Above the sketch are two words: “I think.”
Source: Texas Monthly
4/1/2022
"Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."
Source: Washington Post
4/5/2022
The Post Editorial Board says "Montpelier has a problem. It has gone from being a model for other such sites nationwide to being an embarrassment."
Source: North Carolina Policywatch
4/6/2022
When faculty leaked documents showing a large donor's involvement in the Nikole Hannah-Jones debacle, the University of North Carolina took aggressive action to identify the leakers.
Source: Above the Law
4/7/2022
The head of the Tampa Log Cabin Republicans followed in the footsteps of gay Nazi Ernst Röhm by attacking critics of Florida's "don't say gay" bill and echoing the governor's insinuation that LGBTQ teachers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse.
Source: The New Republic
4/5/2022
Opened in 1967, Esplanade Gardens’ co-op apartments were seen as a way for Black families to acquire intergenerational wealth and gnaw away at centuries-long inequality in housing.Then it started falling apart.
Source: New York Historical Society
4/7/2022
The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.
Source: Briscoe Center for American History
4/7/2022
"I’m impressed by the depth and breadth of the Briscoe Center’s holdings, and also by its innovative mission as a center that actively conducts its own research into its collections, as well as facilitating the research of others."
Source: PsyPost
3/30/2022
Survey research suggests that respondents who support the idea of a Christian America are not ignorant or unintelligent, but motivated to actively affirm statements about government and history that align with their theological precepts.
Source: The Atlantic
3/31/2022
by Phillips Payson O’Brien
As Mike Tyson so eloquently put it, “Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” What we are seeing today in Ukraine is the result of a purportedly great military being punched in the mouth.
Source: The Atlantic
4/3/2022
The Ohio governor increasingly seems to fit a political mold of pragmatic conservatism that lacks a constituency in a polarized political environment driven by a radicalized Republican Party.
Source: The New Yorker
3/31/2022
Releasing oil from the strategic reserve is compounding yesterday's mistakes with today's, and a step in the wrong direction for the climate, says New Yorker science and climate reporter Elizabeth Kolbert. Start treating SUV's like passenger cars under fuel efficiency regulations instead.
Source: The New Republic
3/30/2022
Calls for "transparency" in curriculum are working hand in hand with an agenda to divert public school funding to charter schools using a curriculum steeped in Christian nationalism. But liberals would do well to heed the connection these plans draw between education and citizenship, and parents' desire to connect them more firmly.
Source: Washington Post
4/1/2022
"New Orleans city officials allowed developers to build homes on land contaminated with chemicals linked to cancer. They didn’t tell the people who moved in."
Source: Vox
4/2/2022
"If protest leaders can be hauled into court — and potentially forced to pay out of their own pockets — for the actions of a single protest attendee, then no sensible person will organize a protest."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/4/2022
The university’s faculty committee cited procedural irregularities in how Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo gained a tenured position.
Source: The Atlantic
4/5/2022
by Carl Miller
Westerners are likely to shun Russian propaganda and mock its falsehoods; social media network research suggests that Russia isn't interested in convincing Westerners, and it may be reaching its intended audience quite effectively.
Source: The New Republic
4/4/2022
Rising real estate values are bringing more wealth to Americans than wages and salaries are. This is a big problem for economic equality.
Source: American Association of University Professors
4/1/2022
A recent AAUP report connects two politicized areas of inquiry – the history of racism in America and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – as the principal targets of right-wing efforts to censor reseach and teaching.
