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: The Atlantic
11/15/2021
by Michael Schuman
A leading China scholar argues that the government's increased restrictions on individuals and companies, from the petty to the consequential, signal a retrenchment of central authority after a period of liberalization.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/16/2021
by Emma Pettit
His remarks suggest that the decision to bar professors from testifying against the state may have come from the top of UF.
Source: New York Times
11/16/2021
“He was able to get the grass roots to come to his plays,” the writer Ishmael Reed said in an interview. “He was a Black playwright who spoke to the values of the urban experience. Some of those people had probably never seen a play before.”
Source: New York Times
11/17/2021
The investigation by the Manhattan DA did not identify who prosecutors believe did kill Malcolm X, and it does not affirm what many suspect – that law enforcement agencies conspired to assassinate the leader.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
11/15/2021
The editor of the Mississippi Free Press compares today's national wave of book banning to the efforts to control information that established the "Lost Cause" narrative in early 20th century Mississippi.
Source: New York Times
11/17/2021
Bard literature professor Justus Rosenberg helped artists and intellectuals free Vichy France, fought in the French Resistance, and aided the allied armies' march across Europe before emigrating to the United States and beginning a long academic career.
Source: Los Angeles Times
11/17/2021
by Jean Guerrero
Jason Stanley offers context on the normalization of violence through political rhetoric.
Source: Hyperallergic
11/15/2021
Doris Derby didn’t just chronicle the movement with her camera; she also actively contributed to its causes.
Source: The New Yorker
11/16/2021
Two new books help to shed light on how the NRA, partisan politicians, and the gun industry "took a political base of hunters and nurtured a new, expanded audience of gun guys," and how they made Americans live in their world.
Source: Vox
11/12/2021
Collisions between wildlife and vehicles are bad for animals and dangerous and costly to people and governments, too. The United States may take steps to catch up with technology to mitigate them.
Source: The Guardian
11/12/2021
The Potiguara people split their alliances between the Dutch and Portuguese in 1645; the letters show the consequences of the split and the internal politics of the indigenous nation.
Source: The Guardian
11/15/2021
"We are part of the team behind the new short documentary Bounty. In New England alone, we’ve uncovered government payments for 375 human scalps, submitted in 94 separate claims and equaling government payments of millions of dollars in today’s money."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
12/15/2021
Prosecutors in Philadelphia are accused of withholding evidence that undermined the credibility of key witnesses in the case, a pattern that critics argue has been widespread.
Source: TIME
11/16/2021
by Olivia B. Waxman
“We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Executive Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “I’ve worked for ALA for 20 years, and I can’t recall a time when we had multiple challenges coming in on a daily basis.”
Source: The New Yorker
11/13/2021
The Sulawesi pig is estimated to be 10,000 years older than the Lascaux cave drawings and shows that figurative art didn't originate exclusively in Europe.
Source: Popular Information
11/15/2021
by Judd Legum
The law will "deeply undermine the ability of teachers to teach and the right of students to learn," the North Dakota ACLU wrote in a letter of opposition.
Source: MSNBC
11/15/2021
The first Black principal of Colleyville Heritage High School in Grapevine, Texas, has lost his job after months of allegations that he was pushing critical race theory on students.
Source: New York Times
11/14/2021
by Tish Harrison Warren
What does the Christian faith require in terms of honesty and acknowledgment about the nation's history?
Source: Washington Post
11/11/2021
“By tracing the continuity of the party over 100 years, it is used to show that it was inevitable for Xi to emerge at this time to be the ‘core’ of the party,” said Tony Saich of Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Source: USC School of Cinematic Arts
11/11/2021
The Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts has made available recently preserved video of the 1971 television program "Chicano," a pioneering examination of the political, social and cultural concerns of Mexican Americans in California and the U.S. Southwest.
