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: Christianity Today
3/22/2022
Evangelicals are arguably the most politically engaged religious group in America, with strong views on issues before the court. Yet Ketanji Brown Jackson could become the first nondenominational Protestant to sit on the highest court.
Source: Vice
3/24/2022
Nearly a century of legislation aimed at keeping the public from having fully automatic weapons is being subverted by internet trafficking in cheap devices that modify popular Glock pistols to work as mini-machine guns.
Source: Texas Tribune
3/23/2022
"[Superintendent Jeremy Glenn] noted that members of Granbury’s school board — his bosses — were also very conservative. And to any school employees who might have different political beliefs, Glenn said, 'You better hide it'."
Source: Slate
3/22/2022
The Indiana senator claimed to have misunderstood a question about federalism after he gave a long and detailed answer about leaving policy issues, including specifically interracial marriage, to the states.
Source: The Economist
3/24/2022
by Adam Roberts
While the propsal to include Ukraine and Georgia in NATO was undoubtedly viewed unfavorably in the Kremlin, there are too many factors involved to make it a sufficient explanation for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Source: Los Angeles Times
3/17/2022
Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa discuss the histories and daily life of the Japanese American community in Midtown Los Angeles, an area that has largely been erased from Angelenos' maps of their city.
Source: National Education Association
3/20/2022
Standardized testing originated when public schooling was expanding and eugenicists were arguing that many immigrant and nonwhite groups were not capable of educational achievement. Tests were developed to sustain this viewpoint.
Source: PBS News Hour
3/19/2022
Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall.
Source: Washington Post
3/21/2022
by Gillian Brockell
The Texas senator identified the decisions of the Supreme Court on abortion, civil rights, and other issues in the 1960s and 1970s as the origin of political wrangling over court appointments.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
3/21/2022
"Why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?"
Source: Politico
3/22/2022
Legal historians, law professors, and other scholars propose productive questions Senators could ask Biden's Supreme Court nominee, if they cared to stop grandstanding and speechifying.
Source: 19th News
3/21/2022
"Representation has tangible benefits — research has shown the benefits of increasing judicial race and gender diversity, including heightening trust within minority populations and addressing gender bias in courtrooms."
Source: Think
3/21/2022
by Robyn Autry
The significance of appearance isn’t just about styling choices. It’s about identity, life experience and perspective.
Source: The Atlantic
3/17/2022
Fox News talking head and former Trump diplomatic nominee Douglas Macgregor is a prominent font of familiar antisemitic conspiracy theories, writes Yair Rosenberg.
Source: The Atlantic
3/16/2022
On the lessons learned from working at the government's network of bomb shelters.
Source: WRDE
3/13/2022
Governor Larry Hogan observed the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famed freedom fighter and encouraged visitors to state and federal sites in the state that preserve the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Source: The New Republic
3/17/2022
Education controversies about evolution and religion have given way to disputes about teaching the past, which are much more difficult to adjudicate, and push teachers toward avoidance.
Source: National Security Archive
3/11/2022
Chronic underfunding, combined with successive administrations' disdain for transparency, means that Freedom of Information Act requests are likely to languish for years before being fulfilled. It's long overdue to fund the National Archives for the public good.
Source: National Interest
3/11/2022
"Russian forces, and certainly Russian president Vladimir Putin, may not have anticipated the resolve among Kyiv’s residents. It isn't just the Ukrainian Army that the invaders are facing."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/17/2022
While many Western academics have focused on the danger faced by Ukrainian scholars, it is clear that the domestic politics of Russia are increasingly dangerous for academic freedom as well.
