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
10/3/2021
The lawsuit by survivors and their descendants argues that the massacre's effects constitute an "ongoing nuisance," a theory used successfully by the state to sue a pharmaceutical company for the damages of the opioid epidemic.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2021
The Chicago White Sox have returned to the baseball postseason in part because of their core of players from Latin America, which has long been a trademark of the club.
Source: New York Times
10/6/2021
"Pennsylvania does not have a law banning critical race theory from schools, at least not yet. In states where Republican governors have signed legislation banning critical race theory, books are disappearing from shelves."
Source: New York Times
10/5/2021
“I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”
Source: New York Magazine
10/4/2021
Encouraged by Rudy Giuliani, thousands of New York City Police officers, some drunk, staged a riot at City Hall and on the Brooklyn Bridge to protest Mayor David Dinkins's 1992 proposal of an all-civilian, independent police complaint review board. Why has this pivotal event been scrubbed from many New Yorkers' memories?
Source: New York Times
10/4/2021
by Michael Posner
"The plight of the Haitians has been further complicated by decades of misrule, corruption and brutality by a series of Haitian governments that received steady U.S. financial and political support despite egregious records on human rights."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/29/2021
"Jennifer Abruzzo took issue with the term “student-athletes,” calling it a misclassification of college players, and warned that using it could be construed as an attempt to lead players to believe that they’re not protected by labor laws."
Source: New York Times
10/5/2021
Alleged antiquities looter Douglas Latchford died before trial on charges of illicit trafficking of Khmer artifacts. Efforts to repatriate them have been stymied by a system of offshore trusts used by the global rich to shield assets from taxation and hide criminal activity.
Source: The Bulwark
9/30/2021
by Philip Jaffa
Political scientist Harry Jaffa succeeded in cajoling the disparate elements of the right into a coalition dedicated to the pared-down goals of defeating Soviet communism and domestic socialism; after claiming victory in those battles, the coaltion has faltered.
Source: The New Yorker
9/24/2021
by Edwidge Danticat
Novelist Edwidge Danticat explains the lengthy history of mistreatment of Haitian migrants by American authorities.
Source: Far Out
10/3/2021
John Lennon's notorious "bigger than Jesus" comment prior to the group's 1966 American tour brought out right-wing protestors and helped push the band to stop touring permanently.
Source: New York Times
9/29/2021
Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, said, “We must see monuments as way stations that reflect our values. This is a generational process.”
Source: New York Times
10/1/2021
“The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, the curator of early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, said in a statement this month. “There is no reasonable doubt here."
Source: New York Times
10/1/2021
“There is a lesson here,” said Wade Fowler, who was born and raised here and now runs a small barbecue joint. “Don’t name things after people.”
Source: In These Times
9/29/2021
"There are huge numbers of conservative Southerners who would fight against all important progressive reforms — unless doing so threatened their access to college football. Then, they would at least be willing to negotiate."
Source: Wall Street Journal
10/4/2021
Federal prosecutions in the 1980s and 1990s decimated experienced middle-management ranks in New York's organized crime families. Are they struggling today because their remaining workforce consists of boomers who can't quit and millennials who are on their phones too much?
Source: Washington Post
10/4/2021
"It is the only museum in the state that has a dedicated revenue stream codified in the state’s constitution. So while other museums struggle to keep their doors open, search for grants for funding and depend on volunteer staff, the Confederate Memorial Park is flush with cash."
Source: The Atlantic
10/3/2021
by Ronald J. Daniels
Today's universities need to break from a historical cycle of attention and indifference to matters of civic education.
Source: Smithsonian
9/28/2021
"Thanks to a group of eagle-eyed scholars, a trove of stolen colonial-era documents has been returned to Mexico City."
Source: NPR
9/30/2021
Critics argue the James Webb Telescope honors a NASA administrator who sanctioned employment discrimination against gay and lesbian astronomers during the 1950s and 1960s.
