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: Haaretz
12/12/2021
"It is time to acknowledge the truth, and first to publish the report by the first attorney general, Yaakov-Shimshon Shapira, on the massacres of the dark autumn of 1948... and to hold a penetrating public discussion of their implications today."
Source: New York Times
12/15/2021
The recent exoneration of Anthony Broadwater calls for revisiting the context of writer Alice Sebold's sexual assault, including the state of urban America, the climate of racism and the politics of crime in the early 1980s.
Source: Brookings
12/8/2021
"Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery."
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
12/13/2021
by Kriston Capps
The one thing every New Yorker can agree on is that Penn Station is terrible. Why is this benighted hellhole being championed for historic preservation?
Source: PEN America
12/13/2021
by Jeffrey Sachs
Under the South Carolina bill, racism, fascism, and homophobia can all be understood as cultural or political beliefs. Educators would be prohibited from describing those who hold such beliefs as bigoted or oppressive.
Source: Washington Post
12/14/2021
"The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., cites the modern version of an 1871 law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which was enacted after the Civil War to safeguard government officials carrying out their duties and protect civil rights."
Source: New York Times
12/10/2021
"To talk with a dozen teachers and librarians is to hear annoyance and frustration and bewilderment, as much with the sheer ambiguity of the new law and the list of books as with the practical effect."
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
12/9/2021
The flooding and destruction of the refineries and storage facilities along 52 miles of the Houston Ship Channel is a matter of if, not when, says environmental lawywer Jim Blackburn.
Source: New York Times
12/13/2021
The sale of Brown's lucrative song catalog clears the way for some of the future proceeds to benefit scholarships for poor children in Georgia and South Carolina, a cause Brown had long championed.
Source: NPR
12/12/2021
"Fernandez became an important icon for Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and around the world – who found that his music transported them to the ranches and towns they'd reluctantly left behind in search of opportunity abroad."
Source: The Atlantic
12/14/2021
Sustaining the "big lie" that Trump was robbed of re-election requires small lies, including investigating and prosecuting individuals to sustain the myth of widespread cheating. This explains Texas's prosecution of Crystal Mason for casting a provisional ballot that was never even counted.
Source: The Atlantic
12/8/2021
"The subjectivity involved in defining inappropriate, obscene, or distressing—and the danger of politicizing such definitions—is at the center of Krause’s challenge, and it shows in the books on his ban list."
Source: The New Republic
12/8/2021
"The passionate relationship between a legendary soccer player and an Italian city lies at the heart of The Hand of God, the new movie from Paolo Sorrentino."
Source: Forbes
12/3/2021
"Since the 1990s, Seneca Falls has been the site of an “It’s A Wonderful Life Festival” held on the second week of December. It’s also the location of a permanent museum, which honors the film as well."
Source: NPR
12/4/2021
"Descendants of Paiute, Washoe and Shoshone people who attended the Stewart School during the 90 years it was in operation told stories of bounties being offered to bring Native children to the school; of students attempting to run away due to starvation; and of extreme overcrowding in dormitories."
Source: Tampa Bay Times
12/6/2021
"Faculty at UF Health expressed concerns over funding being in jeopardy if they did not adopt the state’s stance on pandemic regulations in opinion articles, the report says."
Source: Declassified UK
12/8/2021
Declassified documents show that one unknown facet of the British effort to undermine communist Cuba was to encourage the spread of homophobic rumors about Raúl Castro.
Source: The Atlantic
12/8/2021
Is today's conspiratorial and ethnonationalist conservatism a break from the Burkean roots of the movement and its highest ideals? David Brooks says it is. What happens next?
Source: Washington Monthly
12/8/2021
by Matthew Cooper
A veteran political reporter acknowledges that the late Senator and presidential candidate could be a tough partisan, but was devoted to fighting within the rules of procedure.
Source: Noēma
12/7/2021
by Nils Gilman
"The growing awareness of the problems with meritocracy in recent decades is a direct result of the deepening divide between winners and losers. The divide has poisoned our politics and set us apart."
