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
11/10/2021
Although young Americans are more likely to accept the scientific consensus on climate change, there is a significant portion who doesn't, making science education another culture war battleground.
Source: Washington Post
11/10/2021
Even discounting the current media buzz about "Critical Race Theory," new polling data show that there is a sharp partisan divide about teaching the history of racism in American schools.
Source: Jacobin
11/6/2021
"It’s like the window has been cracked a little bit, so that people who might never have thought to doubt law enforcement are doubting law enforcement now, and they’re thinking about their cruelty and racism in a way they might not have thought about it five years ago."
Source: Associated Press
11/6/2021
Harvey Milk was forced to resign from the Navy, and his surviving relatives have declined to have his discharge reclassified to preserve memory of the history of discrimination in the armed forces.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
11/8/2021
The professors claim that while the adminstration reversed itself as a matter of discretion, its "unconstituitonal" policy on conflicts of interest remains in place and threatens faculty's First Amendment rights.
Source: Washington Post
11/6/2021
A Confederate private's diary casually described the execution of three members of the U.S. Colored Troops near Culpeper, Virginia. Today the work of Howard Lambert and his Freedom Foundation will honor the anonymous soldiers.
Source: PEN America
11/9/2021
The PEN Foundation provides an overview of state laws regulating the content of school curriculum and concludes that they "not only pose a risk to the U.S. education system but also threaten to silence vital societal discourse on racism and sexism."
Source: NPR
11/9/2021
The NRA faced a crossroads after the Columbine shootings in 1999. They chose a scorched-earth posture that has guided their response to every mass shooting incident since, documented in recordings of high-level strategy meetings.
Source: New York Times
11/8/2021
by Michelle Goldberg
Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg says that the CRT controversy is obscuring the ways that Virginia's public schools are part of a long political movement to undermine public schools that got a boost from the COVID pandemic.
Source: New York Magazine
11/8/2021
If liberals don't aggressively separate the goals of revising history curricula and improving teacher training from the pop-social science of the growing industry of social equity consultation, conservatives will aggressively lump them together, says New York Magazine writer Eric Levitz.
Source: Washington Post
11/8/2021
by Philip Bump
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's references to racism in design and planning drew mockery from Republicans but reflect the history of political choices that shaped America's transportation networks.
Source: New York Magazine
11/8/2021
The splashy launch of the University of Austin concept echoes the establishment a half-century ago of evangelical conservative colleges; despite the claim to value free speech, the institutions seek to avoid intellectual turbulence and conflict.
Source: The New Republic
11/8/2021
If Democratic moderates want their president and their party to succeed, they need to grapple with the political decisions that have destroyed public investment and transferred the nation's wealth upward to the rich, and think of the present as a crisis comparable to the Great Depression.
Source: New York Times
11/8/2021
A group of scholars and activists are planning to establish a new university dedicated to free speech, alarmed, they said, “by the illiberalism and censoriousness prevalent in America’s most prestigious universities.”
Source: WGBH
11/9/2021
"When COVID deniers and people who refute data-driven public health policy wrongly invoke the Holocaust, they pervert history, trivialize the memories of victims and survivors, and desensitize people to the monstrous atrocities that occurred."
Source: NPR
11/6/2021
The tragedy in Houston is only the latest example of the dangers posed by crowds and the need for adequate safety measures.
Source: Associated Press
11/5/2021
Attorneys representing the professors said they were still planning to move forward with a lawsuit against the university.
Source: NPR
11/5/2021
Vaccine mandates for school attendance are two centuries old. An illustrated history.
Source: Sports Illustrated
11/5/2021
Amateur Athletic Union rules in the 1970s didn't sanction any competitive race for women longer than 1.5 miles. Kathrine Switzer and other pioneering women marathoners discuss a half-century of change.
Source: The Atlantic
10/25/2021
by Morris Levy, Richard Alba and Dowell Myers
The 2020 Census seemed to show the white population was in freefall. But few questioned whether differences between the 2010 and 2020 censuses reflected real demographic change or simply statistical noise as the the Census makes incomplete progress toward accounting for multiracial identity.
