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: Washingtonian
3/15/2022
While everyone has ideas (and some have been wacky) about how to standardize time, humanity's dependence on sunlight means no plan can please everyone.
Source: The New Republic
3/13/2022
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
From football to real estate to politics, British institutions have been willing to welcome Russian cash for decades without regard for its potential moral taint.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/10/2022
Financially precarious academic programs are potentially at the mercy of politically motivated donors whose philanthropy is subsidized by the tax code and affects public institutions without public input.
Source: Washington Post
3/11/2022
“Division superintendents disagree with your assumption that discriminatory and divisive concepts have become widespread in Virginia school divisions,” states the letter from Howard Kiser, executive director of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents.
Source: Fox 32
3/14/2022
The Ukrainian community in Chicago includes many who fled either Nazi or Stalinist forces as children 80 years ago.
Source: Washington Post
3/14/2022
History shows that Biden's pledge to avoid US involvement in the war between Russia and Ukraine will hold up – until it doesn't.
Source: Washington Post
3/14/2022
"People really like being in liberal societies after they’ve gone through either horrible nationalist conflict (as in the two world wars of the 20th century) or they’ve had to live under authoritarian dictatorship (as people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union did under communism)."
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
3/14/2022
by Shlomo Angel
"When a war becomes an urban war — when invaders move from open countryside to crowded streets — the advantages of size, air cover, or more sophisticated weaponry do not hold."
Source: Salon
3/15/2022
by Kathryn Joyce
Hillsdale College is building a national network of conservative education activists with the goals of establishing charter schools based around the school's politically conservative curriculum.
Source: The Atlantic
3/15/2022
by Uri Friedman
Nuclear deterrence depends on factors like the rationality of leaders, the integrity of command protocols, and accuracy of information that are far from guaranteed to work in a crisis.
Source: The Nation
3/15/2022
by Jennifer Berkshire
The media has given great attention to activists attacking "Critical Race Theory" but recent events suggest that there is a real backlash to the effort to stoke cultural grievances.
Source: The New Yorker
3/11/2022
The Director of Russia Studies at the Center for Naval Analyses dives into the technological, doctrinaire, and strategic elements of the Russian invasion, and suggests that the military may be more able to wreak destruction than to secure a meaningful victory.
Source: Mother Jones
3/10/2022
by Leonard Rubenstein
For a century and a half, international law has prohibited attacks on hospitals, and for as long, such attacks have continued, because of the lack of accountability, argues a scholar of healthcare during war.
Source: Grid
3/8/2022
Although reports of Russian advances failing are premature, the advance of armor and artillery toward Kyiv has been slower than expected. Military experts discuss whether supply lines, tactics, morale or technology explain it.
Source: AL.com
3/8/2022
The new bill replaces three others, but only partially addresses concerns raised by professional educators about academic freedom and curriculum.
Source: The Atlantic
3/9/2022
Although a close alliance would allow both China and Russia to overcome American influence in the world, this alone has never been sufficient to align the two nations.
Source: Puck
3/8/2022
by Julia Ioffe
Liberal Russians reflect on Stalin's death 69 years later and observe parallels with Putin's approach to internal dissent.
Source: Hartmann Report
3/8/2022
by Thom Hartmann
What does the negotiated removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine in 1994 teach us about the prospects for peace and disarmament today and tomorrow?
Source: Forward
3/8/2022
The Wisconsin Republican instead met with representatives of the trucker protest convoy.
Source: The Atlantic
3/9/2022
by Casey Michel
American law supports many of the instruments of international financial crime, and American banks and law firms staff them, because they are profitable and useful to oligarchs from around the world. Sanctions on Russian oligarchs will fail unless there is a crackdown on oligarchs in general.
