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
3/9/2022
The publication of war photos has long involved a balance between public information, respect for the dignity of the dead, and the politic of information in wartime.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/9/2022
"National higher-education experts and faculty members in Florida say the legislation is part of an attack on bedrock principles that preserve the academic autonomy of faculty members and institutions."
Source: Religion News Services
2/24/2022
by Knox Thames
Despite a broadly common affiliation with Orthodoxy, Russian imperialism seeks to supplant the authority of Ukrainian Orthodox sects with a Russian Orthodoxy more aligned with Putin's regime.
Source: Vice
3/7/2022
Although the current Postmaster is a fine villain figure for environmentalists, the USPS's failure to move ahead with electric vehicles traces back to the agency's reorganization in the 1970s and restrictions placed on the postal service by Congress.
Source: The Atlantic
3/7/2022
Recent Senate hearings for Biden's court nominees, and the opinions of some Supreme Court justices on criminal cases, suggest that constitutional protections for the right to counsel are in jeopardy, says legal historian Sara Mayeux.
Source: Hyde Park Herald
3/3/2022
The grant advances the renovation of the house on Chicago's south side for use as a museum and educational space.
Source: The New Republic
3/7/2022
Sarah Weinman's book on the friendship between William F. Buckley and convicted murderer Edgar Smith reveals uncomfortable truths about the balance of principle and self-interest in modern conservatism and the persistent tolerance of violence against women.
Source: Stars and Stripes
3/6/2022
“People try and say ‘Oh, you’re not a patriot because you don’t love the Confederacy.’ No. I love the United States of America. And anybody that kills U.S. Army soldiers, that tries to destroy the country that I love — I can’t honor that.”
Source: The New Yorker
3/7/2022
West Ford founded the freedmen's town of Gum Springs near Mount Vernon in 1833. Today a preservation effort to protect the town is tied to a bitter conflict with Mount Vernon over whether West Ford was also the unacknowledged son of George Washington.
Source: The New Republic
3/4/2022
by Jan Smoleński and Jan Dutkiewicz
"For Eastern European scholars like us, it’s galling to watch the unending stream of Western scholars and pundits condescend to explain the situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe."
Source: Jewish Currents
3/3/2022
by David Klion
Abramovich was one of a number of Soviet Jews, excluded from the Communist Party, who moved aggressively into the post-Soviet economy, amassed great fortunes, and either held or fell from favor with Vladimir Putin. Are his enormous donations to global Jewish charities reputation laundering?
Source: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville)
2/28/2022
Governor Bill Lee favors directing taxpayer funds to a network of charter schools using a curriculum developed at the conservative Hillsdale College that features substantial revisionism in the area of civil rights history.
Source: USA Today
3/1/2022
The unit of about 850 women was given a mammoth task of establishing mail logistics after the Allied invasion of France, and succeeded. Only a half-dozen now survive.
Source: Responsible Statecraft
3/1/2022
Propped up in large part as a bulwark against a leftist political insurgency, Juan Orlando Hernandez's usefulness to American interests has apparently diminished sufficiently for his indictment on drug trafficking charges to proceed.
Source: Washington Post
3/2/2022
"The court filing is the strongest assertion yet from the committee that it believes Trump and some of his allies potentially committed crimes during the effort to overturn Biden’s victory and by falsely stating repeatedly that the election was stolen."
Source: Washington Post
3/2/2022
“Mr. Abramovich has contributed to worthy causes for more than a decade,” [Yad Vashem chair Dani] Dayan said. “As far as I know, Mr. Abramovich doesn’t have any links to Mr. Putin.”
Source: Hyperallergic
Opening April 9, this exhibition features newly commissioned works by 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, and more.
Source: American Historical Association
2/22/2022
"The AHA condemns this latest in a centuries-old series of assaults on Black Americans and on the educational institutions that are integral to a diverse, free, informed, and open society."
Source: The Bulwark
2/21/2022
The director, with writer Tony Kushner and star Daniel Day-Lewis, nailed the idea of Lincoln as an imperfect leader nevertheless "fitted to the times we were born into," in a film that holds up after ten years.
Source: New York Review of Books
2/24/2022
by Tim Judah
Hours before the Russian invasion, many Ukrainians appeared not to believe it was happening.
